Flash 5 SWF only files not working outside of Test Movie 2

[crjr]

I've been having trouble with my published SWF files not working outside of the authoring enviroment. They work fine in Test Movie mode, but once it's published, it doesn't work on my hard drive. Nothing, it just sits there. When I publish them with the HTML file, sometimes that works. I've posted this at another forum and I thought I had it licked, but upon further testing I found out it wasn't what I thought it was. It's still there. It's just the SWF only files that don't work. Any suggestions would be helpful. I've trouble shot my publish settings to death and it's still not functioning.

 

[oldnewbie]

It's very hard to tell what's wrong, 'cause you don't give us a lot to work with or look at!
Which version of Flash?
What platform? What browser?
The fact that it seems to work while testing, seems to indicate it's only a Publish settings' matter, but again without having a look at it, it's hard to tell.
Can you post the url of one that's not working... Or at least post (copy & paste) your html code here.
Also, are you sure the .swf has been uploaded in the same folder as the html file?

;-)

 

[crjr]

Sorry bout that. I'm running Flash 5 on Windows 98. Maybe I'm not using the With action correctly, but I thought it was pretty interchangable with the depracated Tell Target. Anyway, I've got a movie clip that's a menu system. There are 5 buttons in it, plus a drag button. No problem with the drag button, but the others aren't doing anything (in the SWF version). There's a STOP action on frame 5 of the menuSystem movie clip. That's where all the button actions are. Here's what I've got for the first button. I'm targeting a movie clip on the main timeline called "A". What's baffling me is that it works fine when I try it in the HTML published page, but nothing in the SWF only file.

on (release) {
with (_root.A) {
gotoAndPlay (2);
}
}

I'd give you a URL, but I haven't uploaded it yet. Right now I'm just talking about it on my hard drive. I've saved and published it to My Documents. When I double click it, it launches, but the buttons don't work in SWF version. They do work in HTML version.

Hope that helps clarify some. Thanks

 

[davdesign]

Very few of my swf's function if I open them on my desktop purely as an swf. To get them to work I open the published HTML file instead.

dave davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com

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[crjr]

Hello again,

Sorry to fill up my own thread, but I did some testing on other peoples files, you know, fla files that I downloaded and on several of them, the same thing would happen. It all works fine within the HTML, but when I try out the SWF nothing happens. This is very frustrating to me. I wonder if re-installing Flash 5 would work. I suppose I should contact Macromedia. When I tried to report this, they pretty much said, your 90 days of support is over and that's that. I'll try contacting someone from there tomorrow since I can't figure this thing out. Maybe they can allow me to re-download it if I give em' my serial number and all that. Who knows?

Anyway, I'm still open to any suggestions, as it happens on all sorts of files. SWFs just aren't working outside of the HTML. Button actions, movie clips, onLoad events, etc..I think I broke it.

 

[oldnewbie]

When working on them(Flash 4 or 5), I very rarely open my .swfs through html. For me, this is only a last minute check before uploading. When they work in Test Movie, they work fine directly from my desktop or working folder... When they don't, they don't!
Still some confusion (on this side of the world) as to what's not working exactly! Test Movie works, direct .swfs don't (all of them?), through html some parts will, some won't...
My suggestion is that you upload one of your files. The html, the .swf and possibly the .fla. Testing it on my machine, I could try to determine which part is not working on your's.

francoisgill@hotmail.com

;-)

 

[spazool]

Hi, I had a similar problem with this, but on my Mac, though it is quite possibly the same on both systems. I have Flash 4 and 5 loaded, and initially all my new .swf's (v5's) wouldn't work. I realised that the .swf's were linked to load the Flash 4 Player! Make sure you have the Flash 5 Player loaded, the FlashPla.exe must be ver 5!