Flash Help

Bananna man

I client of mine is insisting on having falsh included on their site. I have done a fair few things with flash before but nothing too fancy so im no expert.

I have done two seperate flash files, both of which are set up exactly the same way and saved the same way. Both display fine in Firefox but in Internet Explorer one plays fine while the other seems to be pushed down the screen about 2-3 pixels and doesnt play. It shows the background image i have placed in the animation but doesnt actualy play the animation. If i place my mouse over this animation it says "click to activate or use this control" but if i click nothing happens. Is this something to do with activeX control.

Anyone know why one of the animations works fine but the other has this problem?

Thanks

Gordon

Is the HTML exactly the same on both files? Have you got a link?

Bananna man

The first one below doesnt work, second one does:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="520" height="183">
      <param name="movie" value="platinum_images/movie2.swf">
      <param name="quality" value="high">
      <embed src="platinum_images/movie2.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="520" height="183"></embed>
    </object>


<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="512" height="48">
      <param name="movie" value="platinum_images/movie1.swf">
      <param name="quality" value="high">
      <embed src="platinum_images/movie1.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512" height="48"></embed>
    </object>

Ph3n0m

why not use http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/ to display your flash?

Bananna man

Ph3n0m wrote:

why not use http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/ to display your flash?

I have no java experience. I tried to use the code they have posted and substituted my file details but all i see is the "This text is replaced by the Flash movie." text.

Should it just be a case of substituting my file into the code or am i missing the big picture?

Ph3n0m

Bananna man wrote:

I have no java experience. I tried to use the code they have posted and substituted my file details but all i see is the "This text is replaced by the Flash movie." text.

Should it just be a case of substituting my file into the code or am i missing the big picture?

yes you are, it uses javascript not java.

you are probably seeing that text, because you havent actually looked at what you are doing. The code they post allows you to specifiy height, width, background color and most of all minimum flash version required

also another issue is you should not really have flash in a sub folder as sometimes flash gives out about that - best solution put all your flash files in the same folder as the referring html file

Bananna man

Cheers Ph3n0m, i put all the flash files in the same folder location and that seems to have sorted it. Strange coz ive never had this problem before.