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I just found a very simple solution for the problem for those who want to use swf files in autokeen. The problem most people have is that autokeen sorta supports and implements flash files, yet the size is not right and people tend to have to implent the flash files manually.

YET, here's the solution: in your dailytemplate.html or whatever put in the block of code with embed and object and whatnot that is needed for flashfiles. For the obeject name type in
"http://yournamehere.keenspace.com/image ... ate***.swf"
***raw_date*** is a very useful tag most people dont know about is my guess. When it runs through autokeen it is replaced by yyyymmdd. Now simply put the width and height in the dailytemplate there and it works

I'll be doing that soon, so you can visit my comic and see how it works if you want

I hope this helps you guys...

Ouch! I did it! It works. And it was a real pain in the ass. At least the adding German part....in flash

Pardon my noobness.
If ***raw_date*** does today's date, and the file is 20041011.swf, does that mean tomorrow it will not find the file? Or does it just display the most recent file that is in the date format?

My brain feels all squishy.

oh uh..no. ***raw_date*** does "today's date"....meaning if the file is called 20041011.swf Autokeen will create an html file 20041011.html and will add the file 20041011.swf into it regardless if the actual date is 10/11/2004 or 10/13/2004. "Today's date" in Autokeen means the date it is processing right now.

I hope thats clear enough. I'm never that good at explainig stuff :/

Actually, autokeen will not create the /d/yyyymmdd.html just because there is a file of a given name in the /images
You need to upload additional file, ie. a txt file with a rant, into the /workspace/comics, and _then_ autokeen will create the html file for the given day.

***raw_date*** is yyyymmdd in a /d/yyyymmdd.html (for example, on the page with yesterday's comics, it's yesterday's date), and it's the date of the latest update in the index.html. So there will be no problems with autokeen finding the files and whatnot.

However, there may be a problem if you decide not to use a flash one day, and use a gif for example. Then you'd get a non-existant flash file.


I'd suggest to just put the flash code in a yyyymmdd.txt file instead.

uhm...yeah what he said. I meant yyyymmdd in the workspace/comics folder...did I say images?

And yes, after trying out some scripting I actually DID put the flash code in a text file. I was just trying to give the genral idea of how it could work.