Flash Site Design - Need help with wierd glitch...

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Need help with wierd glitch...

LiquefactionStudios

2004-04-08, 4:29 am

I have some very wierd stuff going on so i need someone who knows their flash
and (hopefully stuff like FTP severs too) well. I have a huge problem. I am
making a proffessional website and the point of it is to display photos. i have
an array of buttons. Once a button is clicked, it moves to a corresponding
frame which has the code:

loadMovie("imgs/art/art01.swf", "position");

It loads an swf that has the image without any code or anything on it. It gets
more advanced here.

I made this site once before and have been asked to remake the entire website
recently, and replace a few of the images with new ones. The new images in swf
files have the exact same code as the previous ones. The problem is that the
new ones don't work from first time. The first time that they load, they do not
appear, but once you refresh and click on the same one again it shows up. I've
been transferring all of these new files to an FTP server, where the old ones
were located. could it possibly be a problem with the FTP server? It works
perfectly on my computer.

Help would be greately appreciated, thanks!

tralfaz

2004-04-08, 4:29 am

"LiquefactionStudios" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c52co8$ji$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> The problem is that the
> new ones don't work from first time. The first time that they load, they
do not
> appear, but once you refresh and click on the same one again it shows up.
I've

If the old image appears after you upload a new one, it is because you are
loading from the cache. Refresh won't help because it only refreshes the
html page, not the swf file. You must empty the browser's cache to get new
copies of everything.
Why are your external images in swf files? Unless you are using an old
Flash version, Flash MX can load the jpeg itself without it being in an swf
file.
tralfaz

wllm

2004-04-09, 9:28 am

try and load the external file into a movie clip.

first create an empty mc and name it. then load the external file into it.

on (whatever) {
loadMovie("file.swf", _root.blankMC);
}

hth