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Creating Flash Flies From within Dreamweaver
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| weavingdream 2006-02-24, 10:14 am |
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| weavingdream 2006-02-24, 10:14 am |
| Opps made a mistake!
Ok here is the deal I have tried to insert a interactive image - Flash Text-
into a DHTML page and I am having major problems!
I even have a book that I bought to learn this stuff and I have followed it
step by step the first time I read how to do it and it worked great.
I created roll over Flash text was playing around with time lines and now
nothing it does not work!!!!!!!!
It is driving me crazy! So i follow the book and this is what is says and i
follow:
1. Save document
2. select insert>Interactive Images> Flash text -- box appears
3. Select the desired text options including font, style,size, colour,
alignment, colours etc. and so I do!
4. Save As, always save the file with the .swf extension as you will actually
be creating a flash file. Browse your drive to indicate where you want to save
the flash file.
5. When you are done selecting the appropriate options, click ok to insert the
text.
After i am done i hint play on the flash controller and the little flash icon
disappears nothing it on the page, so i try to preview it and still nothing.
So i tried it about ten times step by step reading the book and doing each
action and still nothing. I was saving the save as .swf file in the same
folder as my site is saved in on the hard drive.
So then the last time i save the .swf file on the desk top and try it and it
kinds of works this time when I play it the words show up and change colour
when i rollover the word but when I move the cursor off te word it does not
change back!!! And when I preview it nothing shows up!!!!
What am I doing wrong???????
Please and thank you!
My head is about to pop off!
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| weavingdream 2006-02-24, 10:14 am |
| Can anyone help? Please
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| after inserting the Flash Text object, WHAT is in the code?
go to split code and design view, click on the flash in design view, then
copy the <embed>blah blah</embed> stuff from code view.
paste into reply please.
On a guess-
is there a line in that embed like this:
_ <param name="movie" value="undefined">
It may be due to a funky character in the HD name or folders leading to this
Local Site folder.
Open a new file using File-->New
---->Don't Save this File<----
Insert an image using the Image button on the Insert Bar
{put in any image that is INSIDE of that Local Site Folder}
-->ignore warnings/nags about file not saved<--
look in the source-
The img tag should have a full hard drive path to the image- could you put
that in reply....
<img src="file:///Macintosh%20HD/foldername1/foldername2/image.jpg">
Funky characters will show as url encoded with %something.
%20 is a blank space- it is Okay, as long as it isn't the first character of
the HD name.
if there is a "funky" character- the folder or HD will have to be renamed
for Dw to work correctly. The funky character is preventing dw from figuring
out the path to the local site folder.
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/k...cfm?id=tn_14452
If your operating system is windows- please reply with the sample img path
asked for above.
> Can anyone help? Please
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| weavingdream 2006-02-24, 10:15 am |
| Ok what happened to the code I pasted in the reply?
Here it is again,
<embed src="../../untitled.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Vers
ion=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" scale="exactfit"
width="223" height="33" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></embed>
</object>
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| weavingdream 2006-02-24, 10:15 am |
| I am using a Mac
Ok here is the code for when i save the file to the desktop and it sort of
works, changes colour on roll over but does not go back to original colour
after.
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
rsion=5,0,0,0" width="223" height="33">
<param name="movie" value="../../untitled.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
<param name="scale" value="exactfit">
<embed src="../../untitled.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Vers
ion=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" scale="exactfit"
width="223" height="33" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></embed>
</object>
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| weavingdream 2006-02-24, 10:15 am |
| Ok what is happening to the code i am copying and pasting, for allan, the guy
three lines up from the relpy? I copy the code and paste it but when I send it
it sdoes not go through the same as it looks before I send it??
sorry have feeeling this is stupid question!
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| weavingdream 2006-02-24, 10:15 am |
| anyone?
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<param name="movie" value="../../untitled.swf">
1. -->Is two folder levels Up from where this page is, still within this
Local site Folder?
2.-->and- please give this info:
Open a new file using File-->New
---->Don't Save this File<----
Insert an image using the Image button on the Insert Bar
{put in any image that is INSIDE of that Local Site Folder}
-->ignore warnings/nags about file not saved<--
look in the source-
The img tag should have a full hard drive path to the image- could you put
that in reply....
<img src="file:///Macintosh%20HD/foldername1/foldername2/image.jpg">
2. the real question: and the full path in your file is: ?
3.--> and just to be clear-
Does this flash show in the browser when you do a Preview in Browser?
What shows when you press F12?
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| weavingdream 2006-02-24, 10:16 pm |
| 1. the file untitled.swf is saved on the desktop. The reason for this is
because if i save it in the local sites folder it does not work for some
reason, the flash only works if i save the file on the desktop.
2. Here is the code from the new file not saved with the inserted image from
the local site folder that my website is in:
<img
src="file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/rayanne/Desktop/Chic%20%27N%20Unique%20/New%20
site/Bridal/images_bridal/Necklaces.jpg" width="207" height="216">
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| weavingdream 2006-02-24, 10:16 pm |
| 3. The flash file only works when the swf file is saved on the desktop not
when saved in my sites local folder and it does preview and work properly in
explorer but does not work in Safari. Screen is blank in Safari nothing but a
white screen!
If you need something more let me know!
Thx
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| weavingdream 2006-02-24, 10:16 pm |
| Here is the code again not sure if your browser is showing the same but the
code above does not show up properly it runs off the page.
<img
src="file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/rayanne/Desktop/Chic%20%27N%20Unique%20/New%20
site/Bridal/images_bridal/Necklaces.jpg" width="207" height="216">
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src="file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/rayanne/Desktop/Chic%20%27N%20Unique%20/Ne
w%20site/Bridal/images_bridal/Necklaces.jpg" width="207" height="216">
Chic%20%27N%20Unique%20
is that folder's name /Chic 'N Unique / ?
suggest renaming it to get rid of the '
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| weavingdream 2006-02-26, 3:14 am |
| Thanks so much IT WORKED !!!!! That has been driving me crazy for weeks
because I tested the flash effects in a small site that I made up to learn some
flash effects that I was saving in a different root folder of course and it
worked fine. And then I tried it in the chic n unique site and nothing!!!!
So it was driving me crazy!!
Thanks Again i apprieciate it Alot.
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