Interactive Flash Calendar FAQ
What are the hardware requirements for the calendar?
Flash Event Calendar is extremely optimized and does not require any modern hardware to run smoothly. Minimal CPU is Intel Celeron 600.
Can I use your interactive flash calendar on my website and locally?
Yes, you can insert flash object into any html page, and place it on your website, or store on your local hard drive. Interactive Event Calendar does not require any server side support, so it works on any computer.
Adding Flash Calendar to Flash Movie
Overview
Flash Calendar is written for Adobe® Flash8® in ActionScript 2.0 but it also works fine with Adobe® CS3®. It is possible to use it in AS 2.0 mode and also option to load for AS 3.0 mode. Depending on the package, calendar can be inserted into your flash movie using different methods.
ActionScript 2.0 (Flash8 and CS3)
All calendar packages can be published using Adobe CS3 to AVM1 SWF file(ActionScript 2.0):
- Compile existing .FLA
- Use as MXP component
- Lod SWF with loadMovie SWF
ActionScript 3.0
- Calendar can be inserted into your AS 3.0 movie using Loader class (example provided in the package).
What level of knowledge is required to install and configure interactive flash calendar?
You do not need to obtain any specific flash or other experience to insert the flash object to your page and configure it. Our developers made all possible to separate functional system from external data and configuration files. Take a look at sample Events and Styles files.
Do you offer installation and customization services?
Yes, we offer Installation services ($30.00 per installation) and handle custom requests. You need to describe your request and fill in your contact information. Our specialists will analyze your request and come up with a free quote. Visit our contact form.
Will I get the source files if I purchase the flash calendar?
Interactive Flash Calendar for website is available in several packages. Please view our Flash Calendar description page to decide which package will work better for you.
Can I change the text color, font face, background image and other element to match my website design?
The answer is yes. The major advantage of the Interactive Flash Events Calendar is it has fully customizable design. You can adjust it to look perfect on any website, starting from the background image or solid color, to color and transparency of every element, group of elements and event descriptions (colors, transparency settings, fonts etc). You way wish to view configuration file of styles to understand the possibilities.
How complicated is it to add a calendar to a webpage
You need to take only 3 steps:
- Upload flash calendar files to your website FTP folder (you do not need to upload fla and other source files).
- Insert flash object into your html page:
<body bgcolor="#990033">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase= "http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="175" height="191" id="Calendar" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="Calendar.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#990033" />
<embed src="Calendar.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#990033" width="175" height="191" name="Calendar" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type= "application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
- Edit XML files to change events and adjust color scheme.
Can I place my interactive flash calendar on one page of the website and place XML files in another folder?
Yes, it is possible to store configuration files in different folder or specify a different path to a dynamic data source.
How can I validate my XML file with events?
There is a DTD schema, developed specifically for this purpose. Use your internet explorer to open FILE.name. Internet Explorer will either show success status or point error line and reason.
Can I generate events form my DB or integrate with a third party software to publish my events online?
Yes. Interactive Flash Calendar does not care about the nature of configuration data. If you have the DB or a different data source, all you need is export your events into the XML format according to our specification. This way you can either update XML files time to time, or create a script that would generate the XML file "on the flight", and specify this script URL as events.xml filename.
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