Flash help

28-09-2008 6:27pm #1

Hi Guys
Some help if you will,first time tinkering with flash within a site.When i preview the page on the pc via dreamweaver it comes up fine,but when i load the file to the server and open the page its blank and nothings happening ie flash file isnt playing.

Im getting an error on the bottom left saying

Line:12
Char:1
Error expected

The code from the page is

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#000000">
<div align="center">
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent('codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','766','height','700','src','flash/intro','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','flash/intro' ); //end AC code
</script>
<noscript>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="flash/intro.swf" width="766" height="700" title="Intro">
<param name="movie" value="flash/intro.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
</object>
</noscript>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Cheers

Webmonkey · 28-09-2008 7:09pm

Some browsers are picky but this line:

/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','flash/intro' ); //end AC code

Should it not be

/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','flash/intro.swf' ); //end AC code

28-09-2008 8:06pm

Hi
I changed that line there and still the same,it's validating fine in dreamweaver only showing the error once launched (IE7) is there any other way i can embed the file so as it will play?

Webmonkey · 28-09-2008 8:41pm

You do have the swf uploaded in the relevent directory yes? - also if you using a Unix/Linux server, make sure that the file names are lower case too even the .swf - or at least match the case as it sensitive to that. Same applies to folder names.

Edit - ok sorry, you actually doing it all locally. IE does have security things on viewing content offline like that, did you try uploading and see what happens?

28-09-2008 8:48pm

Yep i've got it uploaded into the flash folder on the sites directory.Locally it plays,the active x box pops up and then will let you go on once clicked,but remotely its just blank.

Ill double check the case's on the folders now

EDIT - Checked cases there grand,i just notice when i open the index page and right click on the centre where the .swf it doesnt seem to be there (ie the zoom in,rewind menu that normally pops up when you right click on flash isnt there

The Mighty Ken · 29-09-2008 12:26am

Save yourself the headache and use SWFObject.

Liam Byrne · 29-09-2008 8:44pm

Are you certain that the "flash" directory on the server is lowercase, and not "Flash" ?

Also, I'm not sure if the "ACobject is key to the application, but the "S" in "Scripts" is uppercase in that.

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