Flash Gallery not showing on web site

outletseason · #1 (**permalink**) 11-14-2007, 11:39 AM

I just added an interactive image gallery using flash CS3 and ActionScript 2.0 to an html page, it works perfectly well when I tested it in Dreamweaver and preview it in Firefox 2 and IE 7, but when I try to access the same html page from the web it shows nothing! I read the source code to see if something was missing but the object and script codes are both there ... so I really don't understand what the problem is ... I tried using both a relative and an absolute link to the swf, and it always show the same blank page ...

thank you,

niggles · #2 (**permalink**) 11-14-2007, 05:37 PM

What's the URL of the gallery?

You may also want to check that you uploaded a copy of the folder "Scripts" onto your webserver as the CS3 versions of Flash and Dreamweaver automatically create this folder/file to display Flash elements.

That may be why it views ok locally (because they've automatically created it for you), but not online because you haven't copied it across.

Cheers,
Niggles

Orion · #3 (**permalink**) 11-14-2007, 07:07 PM

To get the flash to display cross browser you actually need to remove the script and noscript tags leaving only the object and embed.

I've tried to get that newer code to work and it always causes problems in some browsers. stick with the older object and embed and it works just fine.

But give the other advise above a try, I've never uploaded the Scripts directory to the server with it, could have been my problem (CS2 didn't create it that I could find). =o)

outletseason · #4 (**permalink**) 11-14-2007, 07:14 PM

thanks for the tips, apparently Dreamweaver CS3 created the scripts on a separate directory outside the document root ... and therefore I had to move it inside and voila, now is working like a charm ...

The weird thing is why it did such a thing and didn't check for dependencies ... as I had to manually move it ...

Thanks again for your tips and your help much appreciated ...

weegillis · #5 (**permalink**) 11-15-2007, 04:17 AM

I don't think DW can find dependencies inside .swf, just as it can't find broken links (or can it?).

Orion · #6 (**permalink**) 11-15-2007, 01:11 PM

sweet.. I wasn't even looking for that resolution and now I know for the next time lol... Maybe I'll update some of the sites out there still using the older method lol.

Great question, thanks!