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FLASH COMPONENTS
There are four key Flash SWF components of the Crossword Engine. All four of these can reside in the same directory. Or, the three secondary SWF components may be placed elsewhere from the game and the game can be directed to find them there via its CONTROL FILE. These are:
Main Game Engine: xword_online_mx1.swf
Game Opening: universal_xw_opening.swf
Game Logo: universal_xw_logo.swf
Game End SWF: xw_ending.swf
THE CONTROL FILE (universal_xw_control.xml)
When the game engine starts up, it immediately looks for, reads and parses an XML control file. The Main Game Engine will always look beside itself in the same directory for the universal_xw_control.xml file. You can place the Control File in a different directory and specify the path in the OBJECT/EMBED
IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT remove any of the variables in the Control File. This is the sample universal_xw_control.xml file:
This tells the game which pairs of files to access. For January 13, 2005, this game would access files beginning with fcx050113 (YYMMDD). The two files on the server for this date would be a pair of XML files named: fcx050113-data.xml fcx050113-title.xml
The current date may be passed to the game in this XML file. But, preferably, you will pass the date in to the game via the OBJECT/EMBED tag. If a date is in the OBJECT/EMBED tag, it will override whatever date is in the control file.
Total number of files to load and display. In this case, it is the latest puzzle plus four previous puzzles (total of 5). If this is set to 1, it will simply load the individual file and not show any selection of previous puzzles.
IMPORTANT! This is the path to the directory where you have placed all of the puzzle source files!
Keep this set to daily for your version.
This variable tells the game whether to:
load all of the puzzles stepping backwards one day at a time (seven per week)
or load only puzzles for certain days.
In the latter case, the number 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, etc. In this example, it will load all puzzles during the week. You may also put in a comma delimited string such as 1,3,5 to tell it to load puzzles on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
These tell the game where to find the secondary SWF files. These may be full URLs if desired or relative.
This should never change.
High score function was built in for potential future use. Although they do not currently work, DO NOT remove these!
There are 9 color schemes. #1 is the default color scheme.
Choice of a (Arial) or h (Handwriting). We recommend a as it is the faster of the two options.
Users are able to print the puzzle through the options in the puzzle, Do Not remove this variable.
These nodes toggle whether the player is allowed to print the puzzle or save puzzles. When either allowprint or allowsave are 0, the message you put here will display in the alert which comes up.
DO NOT REMOVE - This message will not display since you can print & save puzzle.
DO NOT REMOVE - This does not display.
This is all stuff you should not change.
This is the text that appears at left of game in its main navigation screen. The %0A entries represent carriage returns (it is a narrow text area so this gives you some control of wrapping/spacing). Pass in whatever text you feel to be appropriate.
OBJECT/EMBED
The OBJECT/EMBED is pretty normal (see note on SeamlessTabbing below) except that you may pass in two parameters in the SWFs URL in the form of a query string. These two parameters are:
dt=050113
xurl=sub/xw_control.xml
The first is the date in YYMMDD format. The second (xurl) may be a relative or absolute URL of the xw_control.xml file (so it doesnt need to sit next to game engine. The game does always need to know todays date and we strongly suggest you pass it in here rather than creating a new xw_control.xml file every day (though this second method will also work).
Regarding SeamlessTabbing, note the setting of this parameter in both the OBJECT and EMBED portion to false. IF THIS IS NOT SET TO FALSE, players will press the tab key to move between answers and find that the focus has skipped right out of the game and onto the web page. If this parametere is missing, it defaults to true. It was a nice surprise addition to Flash Player 7.0 r19 that we only found out about when users complained about weird tabbing. SET THIS TO FALSE.
Regarding sizing of the game, there is nothing magic about the 600x450 dimensions, though I wouldnt recommend you make it smaller. Being Flash, you may want to scale it up using the 4:3 ratio on GameBlast. The bigger it is, the prettier it is and old folks (who love crosswords) love big type.
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