Talk:Store Thank You Messages

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This page will describe the special "Thank You" messages from the Store. The title should be better, but I can't think of a better one. Any ideas on what it should be moved to? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 19:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Mirrors

Can we get mirrors to the toons that we usually can't see? Or would that be going too far legally? - Joshua 15:22, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh yeah and that's kinda my question too that's been nagging at me... --Stux 17:33, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Someone had made a mirror and posted the link to the Forum. I cannot find the post, though. If someone can, that would be great.— Bassbone (^{TALK CONT}) 21:22, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

How does the flash know something's been bought?

How does the flash know something's been bought? There must be some kind of parameter or something passed to the HTML that tells the flash that an Item's been bought... Does anyone know? --Stux 16:02, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

From what I can tell, the JavaScript on the page reads the browser referrer, then adds it as a Flash variable (for example, "thankyou.swf?rf=Referrer goes here"). I guess that if it doesn't match a preset value embedded in the Flash, then it takes you to the backdoor message. --ENUSY 16:15, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm... quite interesting. So we'd just need to disassemble the Actionscript to figure out what the referrer codes are (or is)... --Stux 16:23, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Just decomplied thankyou.swf. See below for the actionscript. It seems like the only referrers are "https://order.store.yahoo.com/" and everything else. --ENUSY 16:40, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Decompiled ActionScript

// Frame 1 actions...

function masterPresent () {
    return true
    }
function controllerLoaded () {
    var _local7 = _root.rf.substr(0, 30)
    if (_local7 == "https://order.store.yahoo.com/") {
        var _local6 = new Array ("thankyou_celegante.swf","thankyou_bubsness.swf",
            "thankyou_song.swf","thankyou_cinnamon.swf")
        var _local2 = sceneChoice = Math.floor(Math.random() * ((_local6.length - 1)))
        var _local4 = new Date ()
        var _local5 = LocalData.load("ty", "lt")
        var _local3 = LocalData.load("ty", "n")
        if ((_local5 == undefined) ||  (_local3 == undefined)) {
            } 
            else if ((!isNaN (_local5.getTime())) &&  (!isNaN (_local3))) {
                if ((_local4.getTime() - _local5.getTime()) / 60000 < 10) {
                    _local2 = Number(_local3)
                    if (_local4.getHours() < 5) {
                        }
                    }
                }
        _local2 = 3
        LocalData.save("ty", "lt", _local4)
        LocalData.save("ty", "n", _local2)
        _root.content_mc.loadMovie(_local6[_local2])
        } else {
        _root.content_mc.loadMovie("thankyou_bonus.swf")
        }
    }
test_txt.text = _root.rf
stop()
_root.onEnterFrame = function  () {
    if ((_root.getBytesLoaded() > 4) &&  (_root.getBytesLoaded() >= _root.getBytesTotal())) {
        controllerLoaded ()
        delete(_root.onEnterFrame)
        }
    }

Sweetness! I'm making the links and will watch them shortly to see which one's which (though it's pretty obvious)...

• https://secure.homestarrunner.com/thankyou_celegante.swf
• https://secure.homestarrunner.com/thankyou_bubsness.swf
• https://secure.homestarrunner.com/thankyou_song.swf
• https://secure.homestarrunner.com/thankyou_cinnamon.swf
• https://secure.homestarrunner.com/thankyou_bonus.swf

--Stux 17:07, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I tried the files above and couldn't get any to work properly except the bonus. They all blank out for me. I can only guess that they need to be loaded through the main SWF file. I'll see if a custom-built HTML file works... --Stux 17:14, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I managed to make it so I can see one of the toons. Though all the files had to be saved locally in order for this to work. It was the homestar singing one, and unfortunately it kept playing every time I reloaded the page regardless. Then I tried chaning the clock and saw the late night homestar, and when I changed it back saw the version with strong bad and all his money. It's still stuck on that one and I'm not really sure why. The flash shouldn't save information across sections unless it's setting some cookie... is it doing that? --Stux 17:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

It might be easier to click here and press back to see all of them. --ENUSY 17:41, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
EDIT: Found why they cannot be watched from a direct URL link: in frame 5, the actionscript below is present:

// Frame 5 actions...

if (_parent.masterPresent()) {
    blocker_mc._visible = false
    content_mc.play()
    } else {
    content_mc.stop()
    var snd = new Sound (content_mc)
    snd.setVolume(0)
    }
stop()

Basically, it stops the Flash from playing, and puts a black screen over the Flash if it hasn't been loaded from thankyou.swf.

So I could've just clicked on that link above!? Sweetness! Why didn't I think of that before? Oh, actually, I didn't know you could do that with swf's... Though the back button solution isn't working on my compy for some reason (when I do it blanks the SWF). Anyway the single file protection is quite sneaky. I'm gonna have to buy something now to make up for this work ;) Thanks a lot Venusy! --Stux 18:03, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Work around for blocker_mc

I was fooling around with a flash decompiler trying to see how to get the movies to play through the thankyou.swf. I couldn't figure out how to trick the thankyou.swf, but the decompiler itself will play the clip with minimal graphical errors. There's a Sprite labeled as content_mc in each of them. If you click on that the decompiler will play the clip. —NFITC1^talk 06:15, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, ignore that. I figured it out...sorta. This will work in tandem with the heythanks.html

The heythanks.html on the site has a script in it that looks like this:

<script type="text/JavaScript"> document.write('<embed src="thankyou.swf" FlashVars="rf=' + document.referrer + '" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="confirmation_test" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />');</script>

If you make the following change to the file and save it on your computer along with the rest of the thankyou_*.swf files they'll all play according to the time on your system if you open the heythanks.html file. You can change the time on your system to play a different one.

<script type="text/JavaScript"> document.write('<embed src="thankyou.swf" FlashVars="rf=https://order.store.yahoo.com/" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="confirmation_test" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />');</script>

I'm not sure how to make them not be links, but there you are. They just worked for me. It's easier than getting a flash decompiler and only using it during the trial period. Thing about this is that it will always take you back to the store page since all the thankyou_*.swf files are coded to do that. —NFITC1^talk 06:24, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I just noticed that it's only playing the thankyou_celegante.swf during 6am-12am, but it will play the cinnamon between 12am-6am. Is there some way to get the random function to work for the flash files? It's probably some resource file on the site that gives it code. It's a different random function from Marzi's character page so it's probably a math library of some kind. Can anyone who writes flash help look for such a file?

Edit: It just seems like the Math.Random() (which is part of flash library since Flash 5 so I don't think it's a separate file or class object) isn't setting var _local2 mentioned in the above topic. I can't figure out why it isn't working. Can someone else try this? Maybe you'll have better luck with it. —NFITC1^talk 14:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC)