Best way to embed flash.

[JCphotog]

I'm sure that folks have posted about this before, but I'm having trouble finding a good topic, so please point me in the right direction if it already exists.

What's your advice for posting flash objects in an article on the home page.  I recently set up a slide show widget from flashnifties.com 

You can see it here:
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?page=39

I tried something along the lines of:

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<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="somefilename.swf">
<embed src="somefilename.swf" width="550" height="400">
</embed>
</object>

And I got a blank screen, so I switched to an iframe.  Which works, but several users have complained of a blank screen so I figure there's a better alternative.

What works for you?

[Ken.]

This may be a little different from what you are trying to do, but I've used this utility to good effect:
http://www.flash-slideshow-maker.com/

As for my code:

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<center><iframe src="http://www.mykimbrell.com/VideoFiles/slideshows/maymix/maymixss.html"
height="655" width="700" Scrolling="no"></iframe></center>


EDIT: Heres the link to the finished product: 
http://www.mykimbrell.com/FamilyForum/index.php?page=67

[Ken.]

When trying to use your embed method mine gives the same result, the page will display but the slide show is blank.

This will take some experimentation to find something that works, hopefully one of our code experts will have some good input.

[Ken.]

Using the full http address of the file made it work with your code.

I didn't try to do anything (like centering, etc) other than get it to display the slide show and the full path plus the size is what got it to this point.
Did you try increasing the size called in your code? Like going to width="600" height="600" as I did with mine.

http://www.mykimbrell.com/FamilyForum/index.php?page=116

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<object width="600" height="600">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.mykimbrell.com/VideoFiles/slideshows/maymix/maymixss.swf">
<embed src="http://www.mykimbrell.com/VideoFiles/slideshows/maymix/maymixss.swf" width="600" height="600">
</embed>
</object>

EDIT: Just added it to my front page article and it works well there also.
Everything that you see on the front page is contained within that one html article including the slide show.
My front page.