[Aaron Hayman]

I’ll certainly read that article. Thank you for posting it. I wonder though, what happened to the HTML that I posted on my original inquiry? I highlighted all of the code and hit the “code” button on here to make sure that it would show up properly. I hit the “preview post” button as well and I made sure that everything looked like I meant it to (that all of the code was showing up) before I posted. Now I see that none of it is showing up and there’s a big blank space where the code was meant to be. What gives? How do I properly display code in these CreativeCOW forum windows?

[Aaron Hayman]

Mitch, Yea… good luck with that. I haven’t had such good luck finding the kind of thing that I was looking for as far as a javascript solution. I had something one my site that was basically a Flash based thing that was really glitchy and since I haven’t been able to figure out a javascript type thing for it, I now have my videos posted on Vimeo and the link on my site just opens up a new window with the Vimeo page that has all of my video stuff. Not as elegant a solution as having some stylish player with thumbnail images, descriptions and the like that works right inside of my site, but for now it’s the best that I’ve come up with.

I’ll post here if I come up with a javascript solution at some point and if you figure it out first, I’d love to hear what you’re going with (and see a link). It’s funny…. there are so many different jquery plug ins, but it seems that it can still be all but impossible to find one that works well for your own thing. One day perhaps, I’ll be genius enough with jquery to write something from scratch. Until then though I’m stuck searching for a pre-fab solution… which can be pretty frustrating.

[Aaron Hayman]

I went ahead and checked out that link that you gave me: https://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

It was indeed pretty slick the way that they provide a sort of “creator” that creates the code for you. I did all of that and then tested out how that code works with my page and the SWF inside of it… and it’s still buggy when viewed with Firefox.

I wonder then if there isn’t another way of achieving the same sort of thing that I’m doing with Flash: having a sort of thumbnail menu that plays the videos of each corresponding thumbnail in a separate space? Could I perhaps reengineer the pages on my site in question to use some sort of Javascript feature to do the same thing that I’m trying to do in Flash? I’ve been looking for such a thing o the JQuery site and haven’t come up with anything so far. Would a javascript solution necessarily be more reliable, more cross platform capable than something made with Flash?

[Aaron Hayman]

Cool… this is exactly the sort of thing that I’m looking for: Code that is going to be more current (and hopefully more reliable) than what my not-so-current CS3 will generate.

I understand the process of downloading, copying and pasting code as I have done that very same thing with JQwery things for various other elements of my site and got them (with a bit of tweaking) to work just fine.

I’ll go ahead and try this and get back to you. Thanks a lot. I have a feeling that this just might be the sort of fix that works.

[Aaron Hayman]

Yes, Exactly, That’s what I’m trying to fix. I’ve played just the SWF file off of my own computer (a Mac) and it looks perfect, as do all of the other similar files that I have. In light of this, other folks that I’ve talked to have told me that they were pretty sure that the problem was not with the SWF, but with the the code that references that SWF in the HTML. In fact, I posted a question about this in the Flash forum here and was told that it wasn’t a problem with the Flash and that I needed to post it in this section.

I don’t know what I would have done in Flash any differently anyway as it seems that there aren’t so many variables in that program when creating this kind of a thing.

I’ll try the one thing that you mentioned, which is generating the code via Dreamweaver (rather than with Flash) and see how that goes. I’ll let you know what I come up with.

[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?

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.