Trouble with SWF in webpage when viewed with Explorer

[Bishop Zareh]

what about the SWF code that Flash generates? does that work? does it work on page other than your template?

| Jameson Wallace
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[Aaron Hayman]

I used the HTML code that Flash generates and that seems to work OK for the other browsers, but not so well for Explorer. I’m using an older version of Flash (CS3) and it appears that Microsoft just recently changed the requirements to Explorer and I can’t upgrade my Flash.

I’m not sure but I think that it’s going to be one of those things were the code is “redundant” like it’s going to be another copy of pretty much the same thing with just a few changes in the language to accommodate Explorer. Not sure what that code is though…

And to answer your other question, the code doesn’t seem to be working (in Explorer) on any of the pages where I have SWFs in the code.

[Bishop Zareh]

can you use this:
https://jquery.lukelutman.com/plugins/flash/

if not there should be many similar projects written in stand-alone js if you dont want to include the whole jquery base (~50k for version 1.3)

using this plugin the code would be something like :

$(‘#hello’).flash({
src: ‘hello.swf’,
width: 320,
height: 240
});

| Jameson Wallace
| Motion Graphics Festival
| New Motion + New Sound + New Code
| https://MGFest.com

[Aaron Hayman]

Ok… I’m lost. I’m wondering what the code the code you gave me replaces or if it would be in addition to the code that I already have?

Do I need some sort of javascript thing that the page references for it… like the “<script src=”Scripts/swfobject_modified.js” type=”text/javascript”>” that I’ve already got?

The code for the SWF portion for one of the pages in question (https://www.mapango.net/aarondesign/flash_movie.htm) is this:

<script type=”text/javascript”>

//–>

I wonder if I really need a whole new script at all, or if there’s a few mods that I can do that would make it work in IE.

Also, I wonder if there’s any way to preview it (or check the code) for the latest version of IE for my Mac machine, as it doesn’t look like any of the newer versions of that browser are available for the Mac.

It looks like you’ll have to look at the source code for the code that I’ve pasted in order to see what I’m talking about. I guess that I don’t really know how to “quote code” here. Sorry.

Thanks, in advance.

[Fernando Mol]

Can you please describe more about what exactly is the problem with your site?

Also, if you can write the exact message Dreamweaver is giving you it would be helpful.

I can’t see your flash movie (the blue guitars) in Firefox or Safari on Vista64, on IE8 it works fine.

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[Aaron Hayman]

The problem with my site is the very one that you’re having with it, that it can’t be viewed reliably with all browsers (or at least the major ones: Firefox, IE and Safari) and on both the Mac and PC. I’m wondering if there’s some HTML code that I can use as a “holder” for my SWF that might work better than the code I’m currently using… either that or additional code.

In Dreamweaver I get this message when I open the page in question (or any of the pages that I have that contain these SWFs):

“This page contains

[Fernando Mol]

The HTML code seems to be OK.

I accessed the SWF directly and it doesn’t work.

Jameson is right on suggesting an alternate way to place the swf.

I will assume (correct me if I’m wrong),

-first, you tried placing the swf directly on Dreamweaver and uploaded all the generated files. Javascript, swf controls, etc. It didn’t worked.

-then, you deleted the swf and all the links that DW created for external javascript files.

-from Flash, you published again creating an HTML page. Copy/Pasted the code inside DW. It didn’t worked again.

-then, you deleted all the code that you pasted and tried again with jQuery.

If all of this is true, you have something wrong inside your swf file. You need to debug in Flash.

I hope this helps

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[Aaron Hayman]

Thank you for taking the time to look at my stuff… No, I didn’t do anything like the process you’ve suggested in creating this page (or any other similar ones on my site). I simply used the code that Flash generates when you have it generate HTML code and then I pasted that inside of a div on my web page. I used a text editor for this and tested it out… and it did seem to work at the time in safari, I believe. It was only later that I realized that it didn’t work in Explorer and worked inconsistently in safari and Firefox. No jQwery code was used for this (although I use that code for other elements of the site like the drop down menus).

I tried opening up the SWF in the Flash player and it worked fine for me.

[Fernando Mol]

You can try placing your swf again.

-Open your page
-In design view, place the cursor where you want your movie to be
-Go to the menu >Insert >Media >SWF

Save and test.

If your movie works going directly to it, then I have to tell you, it doesn’t in my computer (Vista 64 bits). So there’s a possibility that the swf is troubled.

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[Aaron Hayman]

OK… I’m going to have to try your method of placing the SWF with Dreamweaver instead of with Flash. I think that I may still have a problem though as I just have the CS3 suite (not anything more current) and I understand that Microsoft made a change to way that IE works with Flash, so I think that I’d still need some kind of workaround for getting it to view properly in all browsers.

Also I’m wondering what you mean when you say that you couldn’t get the SWF to work when you accessed it directly. It seems that in a previous post you said that you got it to work in IE (just the one that I’m having the biggest problem with). Could it possibly work in IE, but not directly in the Flash player?