Hi

I'm seeing the same problem now and then. Sometimes it works and other times it does not. I really need this to work for IE7.

Please help us with this issue.

Same issue here. I embedded the slideshow in Joomla 1.0.12 and it works fine in Firefox - IE7 presents the "Operation aborted" error listed above. I've run into the same issue with other Flash slideshows. I used to think it had something to do with a site being served through https, but that's not the issue. Damn you Microsoft!

*By the way, full instructions for embedding in Joomla are available on the Rockettheme.com website under the forum for the newest template, "BentoBox". You must be a paid member, of course, to access the content.

Since the crack team at monoslideshow are all over this, let me be the one to reveal that monoslideshow and slimbox are incompatible.

Yes, very odd.

IE7 gives me fits. It could have to do with IE7 toolbars and plugs, or with security?

FWIW, the demo page above
http://www.joncowan.com/test
works fine on my IE7 Win 2003 server. 7.0.5730.11

BTW Slimbox (relying on memory here) is one of the lightbox widgets out there. "slim" due to the size of the JS payload.

Wasca, could you help me try and get this error fixed, it's the exact same error that I am having. Here's my base module code, how do I alter it to make use of your fix?

<code><code><div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="monoslideshow/swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="monoSlideshow">
<p><strong>Please install Flash and turn on Javascript.</strong></p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
var so = new SWFObject("monoslideshow/monoslideshow.swf", "SOmonoSlideshow", "430", "240", "0", "#1f1f1f");
so.addParam("base", "monoslideshow/");
so.write("monoSlideshow");

// ]]>
</script>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("monoslideshow.swf", "mss", 790, 400, "7", "#ffffff");
so.addVariable("showLogo", "false");
so.write("mssHolder");
</script></code></code>

Hi Forsh

Did you download the ufo.js file and add this line in your header of your web page?

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/ufo.js"></script>

Obviously you would change the path to where you placed the ufo.js file

I also noticed you used "monoslideshow" in this line.

UFO.create(FO, "monoslideshow");

and monoSlideshow in the div id

<div id="monoSlideshow">

You need to make sure it's the same name. e.g.

UFO.create(FO, "monoSlideshow");
<div id="monoSlideshow">

Has anyone else had success using Wasca's UFO fix? I too am getting the "Operation Aborted" error in IE7 and on two seperate computers. I was hoping to hear that this fix had worked for others before I take the time to hack through it. (I say hack because I am fairly new to this--hack is appropriate.) Any further comments or suggestions Monokai on the problem and this as a fix?

Thanks in advance. Monoslideshow is a totally cool app.

I'm getting the error on three different computers with IE7 on both my site with monoslideshow and this monoslideshow site, but not other flash sites. Any ideas? I don't want to have to use Slideshowpro because I really love the Ken Burns effect. Any ideas Monokai? Or anyone?

I really don't know what's causing this. Mostly it works fine on IE7. As I said before, Monoslideshow is just a regular Flash .swf file, nothing strange about that. It really seems somehow some installs of IE7 prevent Flash files from showing. Maybe you can take a look on the SWFObject forum for fixes. I've found this trouble shooting post:

http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/forum/discussion/2/swfobject-faq/#Item_0

And here's some more info:

http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/12/08/corrupt-flash-player-install-after-ie-7-upgrade/

Just run into this problem with IE7.

Any resolution??

?Just love MonoSlide but if it doesn't consistently work with IE7 my client won't have it :-(

I've implemented both solutions (UFO.js and the defer statement - see below) and MSS now works flawlessly.

<script src="/monoslideshow/ufo.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
<script defer="true">var FO = { movie:"/monoslideshow/monoslideshow.swf", width:"545", height:"225", base:"/monoslideshow", flashvars:"dataFile=/monoslideshow/monoslideshow.xml", majorversion:"6", build:"40" };
UFO.create(FO, "monoslideshow");
</script>
<div id="monoslideshow">
<p><strong>Please install Flash 7 or above and turn on Javascript.</strong></p>
</div>

The only question I have now is what is the syntax and location within the script to disable showInfo and showLogo?

TIA.

Yeah, but there's no telling when Microsoft will get to it. IE7 is so buggy, I'm sure they have their hands full ;)

Anyway, does anyone know what the syntax would be to replicate the showLogo and showVersionInfo to false with UFO? Or is there a hack within the monoslideshow flash file to remove it the hard way?

Try flashvars:"dataFile=/path/to/xml&showLogo=false&showVersionInfo=false" for multiple variables with UFO.

If downloaded and uploaded the ufo.js to the same folder where I have the sfwobject.js file. But still I can not get monoslide up and running.

CODE:
<script src="/monoslideshow/html/ufo.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
<script defer="true">var FO = { movie:"/monoslideshow/html/monoslideshow.swf", width:"500", height:"200", base:"/monoslideshow/html/", flashvars:"dataFile=/monoslideshow/html/monoslideshow.xml", majorversion:"6", build:"40" };
UFO.create(FO, "monoslideshow");
</script>
<div id="monoslideshow">
<p><strong>Please install Flash 7 or above and turn on Javascript.</strong></p>
</div>

What am I doing wrong?

I am using the Joomla Vortex theme from Rockettheme. Had the monoslideshow working in FF, but not in IE6 or IE7.
Thanks to above thread and others, I removed all the other mootools.js lines in the theme index and used this code to call monoslide...

<script src="/monoslideshow/ufo.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script defer="true">
var FO = { movie:"/monoslideshow/monoslideshow.swf", width:"565", height:"250", base:"/monoslideshow/", flashvars:"dataFile=/monoslideshow/monoslideshow.xml&showLogo=false&showVersionInfo=false&wmode=transparent", majorversion:"6", build:"40" };
UFO.create(FO, "monoslideshow");
</script>
<div id="monoslideshow">
<p>
<b>Please install Flash 7 or above and turn on Javascript.</b>
</p>
</div>

...and it works in FF and IE...horray!!!! ....except... the DHTML? menu is behind the flash monoslide. I had been using wmode="transparent" in previous code; but including the wmode command in this line doesn't seem to work


flashvars:"dataFile=/monoslideshow/monoslideshow.xml&showLogo=false&showVersionInfo=false&wmode=transparent", majorversion:"6", build:"40" };


Really grateful for any pointers to the problem with the wmode command.

thanks, J

Hi Joomla guys,
I was struggling with the same problem for days with this operation aborted stuff ... I'm not a web developer ... just a beginner trying to get my website up and running ... and this was my solution for this IE bug ...

I tried mod_html, and ufo instead of swfobject, ... and none worked for me ... The only one the kind of worked was embed a flash object in a custom module ... but this module would be placed right below a DHTML menu, and it sucks to have to activate the flash to click on the menu ... So ...

Researching I found a .NET developer that said the problem is because you can't append to the BODY element from script that isn't a direct child to the BODY element. (I'm not 100% sure what that means) and his solution was to move your js code to the top or bottom of the body, because you cannot have your code to load inline while the page is being parsed ....

As this solution didn't appear to work for me ... using Joomla (because I don't know if I can do that) I used the Wrapper module getting one of the index.html that came with MSS package that I customized for what I wanted, and set a css class for the div with top:0 left:0 padding-left:0.

Again ... I don't know if this is the best solution ... but was the only one for me ... a full-time beginner ...
Hope that helps ...

i was having this problem also trying to use MSS on a PHP file for a Joomla template.

UFO and JS outside the <body> did the trick. thanks guys!

Does anyone have a fix for this
I have tried everything listed and still get errors in IE7 when usng MSS with Joomla (catalyst template by rockettheme)

the forum over at RT has no answers

and the link above to the UFO file is no longer valid

I need some help as my site is 99.9% complete except for this slideshow which is a focal point of the site

Great i started same thread before but no one replied.
Is this only because Swfobject or is it in combination with Mootools?