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Omar replied on October 10, 2009 23:53 to the question "Widget is Cut Off" in Widgetbox:

It's due to the css file included on that page: style.css (line 986)

#sidebar embed, #sidebar object {
height:250px;
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:300px;
}

It's overriding the width and height that Widgetbox specifies in the code snippet that was provided.

Omar replied on October 10, 2009 22:56 to the question "No MORE tab on FB" in Widgetbox:

I found your More app installed on this page instead: http://www.facebook.com/apps/applicat...

It looks like you may have had a problem when choosing the page to install the widget on. Once a widget is installed to a page, you cannot move it to another page. So you will have to remove the app from the page it's installed on and go through the add process again. To remove the app, you need to edit the page it's installed on in Facebook, doing this will automatically delete it from your Widgetbox account as well and restore your pro credits.

Omar replied on October 10, 2009 20:38 to the question "No MORE tab on FB" in Widgetbox:

Could you give me either your Widgetbox username or a link to your Facebook fan page?

Omar replied on October 10, 2009 18:27 to the question "Facebook app will not use my blog RSS." in Widgetbox:

Please make sure your feed is valid:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?ur...

Specifically, your feed must have this under the CHANNEL element
<link rel="self" href="http://www.trufan.com/rss/hot">

Omar replied on October 03, 2009 16:12 to the question "SecurityError: Error #2060: Security sandbox violation: ExternalInterface caller" in Widgetbox:

Check out our documentation for Flash widget developers here:
http://docs.widgetbox.com/developers/...

Also, depending on your version of Actionscript your are using, you can download one of our examples which shows how to access input parameters:
AS2 - http://files.widgetbox.com/widgets/ec...
AS3 - http://files.widgetbox.com/widgets/ec...

Omar replied on September 26, 2009 19:11 to the question "SecurityError: Error #2060: Security sandbox violation: ExternalInterface caller" in Widgetbox:

Your widget will always receive an input parameter named "widget_location". You can use that parameter's value to figure out the host.

Omar replied to "Can not Hide the Get Widget button", but it was removed. see the change log

Omar started following the question "Embarrassing: "This widget may start to display ads..." Help!" in Widgetbox.

Omar replied on June 16, 2009 19:03 to the question "Letting users pick a character - configuration option" in Widgetbox:

You would place the gotoAndPlay(_root.character) in the first frame. And the values for the drop downs should be jink or minx (w/o quotes)

Omar replied on June 16, 2009 17:50 to the question "Letting users pick a character - configuration option" in Widgetbox:

I think you may have misunderstood my instructions.

You don't want the values to have actionscript code in them (see your pic1.png). You just want the names jinx, minx, etc.

Then in your Flash file you want to use code that looks like

gotoAndPlay(_root.character);

Omar replied on June 06, 2009 00:42 to the question "Most widgets won't load in any browser" in Widgetbox:

As of right now, we do not currently support IE8 unless it is running in IE7 Compatibility mode. You can check our Using Widgets FAQ for our current list of supported browsers: http://www.widgetbox.com/help/faq/#faq06

Omar

Omar replied on June 06, 2009 00:35 to the question "how do I create a daily quote widget?" in Widgetbox:

We don't have any code samples for this type of widget unfortunately, but the best place to start learning HTML is probably http://www.w3schools.com. There are many tutorials on how to write and format HTML and how to write and use JavaScript to change the content. If you want to manually change the quote, you may only need to write HTML that you edit daily, otherwise if you want a new quote to appear each day automatically, you'll need to investigate using JavaScript. For the novice, this example may be too complicated, but it shows the JavaScript one would need to build a random quote widget: http://www.codelifter.com/main/javasc...

Good Luck!
Omar

Omar replied on June 04, 2009 22:51 to the question "Letting users pick a character - configuration option" in Widgetbox:

The name of the parameter is arbitrary, you can specify whatever you want. I suggest a parameter with a name like "character" and a display label of "Character:". You will want to make its type Dropdown, and its Flash-Mode = "FlashVar". Then in your code you would have gotoAndPlay(name); without quotes. This assumes that you have labeled frames with the same values as the options for this parameter on Widgetbox.

Omar replied on June 04, 2009 17:30 to the question "Letting users pick a character - configuration option" in Widgetbox:

In order to use the parameters in your code you will want to take a look at our Flash Developer docs: http://docs.widgetbox.com/developers/....

If you need examples, you can check out the AS2 or AS3 examples we have linked to from that page:
Download the ZIP file containing the working example code for the Echo Test (Flash AS2) example widget.

Or

Download the ZIP file containing the working example code for the Echo Test (Flash AS3) example widget.

And you will want to use the gotoAndPlay() or gotoAndStop() functions to jump to the frame: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/m...

These functions are used like this:
gotoAndPlay(12); or gotoAndPlay("bob"); if you've labeled your frame "bob". You label a frame by selecting it in the timeline and entering a label into the properties panel.

Hope this helps.
Omar

Omar replied on June 04, 2009 00:57 to the question "Letting users pick a character - configuration option" in Widgetbox:

The first option is what you want to do. In Widgetbox, you can setup configuration parameters that are passed to the widget when it is loaded on a page. One type of config that we offer is a Dropdown box which would let the subscriber to the widget pick a character. You would then look for that parameter name in your flash file and use the value you receive to jump to a frame in your movie. You could use frame labels to match character names for example, or just use the number of the frames as the parameter value.

Another way you could do this is to have a SWF that is just a container that you register as the widget, and then load the existing SWF files that you already have into it based on the value of the parameter.

Omar replied on May 06, 2009 23:40 to the question "Feed not showing on Blidget when testing, but shows in editor" in Widgetbox:

Hey Colby,

It looks like you're currently trialing PRO. You either need to cancel your pro trial by clicking the "Cancel Trial" link at the top of the blidget editor page (in the purple bar), or upgrade your account to PRO. Either way you'll need to click "Publish Changes" on the blidget's editor page to update the listed widget.

Hope that helps!
Omar

Omar replied on May 06, 2009 22:48 to the question "Feed not showing on Blidget when testing, but shows in editor" in Widgetbox:

Hi Colby,

I'll be happy to take a look. Could you send me the url to your widget's gallery page?

Thanks,
Omar

Omar replied on May 04, 2009 05:55 to the question "Hebrew support in Blidget header" in Widgetbox:

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we have identified the issue and will be fixing it this week.

Thanks,
Omar

Omar replied on April 10, 2009 15:15 to the question "Get Widget Tab not passing parameters of instance" in Widgetbox:

Hi Bryon,

I've updated your widget to use the configuration of the widget that the Get Widget button is connected to. Now when users see one of your widgets in the 'wild' they can get that specific configuration of it when they click Get Widget.

This setting is something I have to turn on for your widget, and it may get reverted if you publish changes on your widget again. If that happens, please just email support, and we can switch it back.

Omar

Omar replied on April 03, 2009 23:47 to the question "my swf file keeps getting cut off even though i've tried resizing it" in Widgetbox:

Charlotte,

There could be 2 reasons that your widget would be cut off in our flash wrapper.

1) Related to my response above...You may be using Stage.height or Stage.stageHeight (depending on AS2 or AS3) to determine the height of your widget in your actionscript code. My suggestion above was to look for the parameter "widget_height" and use that instead. You can access this parameter in your code by using _root.widget_height for AS2 or LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters["widget_height"] for AS3.

2) You may be explicitly setting Stage.scaleMode in your actionscript, but you do not include the required hidden parameter in your widget. Please refer to our flash docs for more on this: http://docs.widgetbox.com/developers/...