Flash clip inserted in Dreamweaver not working 1

[Rosee]

I have a Flash clip inserted into the Dreamweaver and saved as a html file. It worked well on my PC with Internet Explorer. But it does not work on other computers, which the computers have no Dreamweaver loaded.

I do need to run this page on the computers with no Dreamweaver program. What should I do? Any ideas?

Thanks for your time and help.

 

[jimoblak]

Buy copies of Dreamweaver for all your users.

Seriously...

2 reasons why it may not be working...

1) check the HTML that calls on the SWF file. If there is an absolute reference to somewhere on your C:\ drive, you have a problem. Use only relative references.

2) Make sure your flash file is compatible with the majority of your users. Macromedia's web site claims that over 97% of internet users have flash player. This does not mean they have the most recent Flash 6. Some users may need to update their flash browser plugin to view your file. Or you can find a way to save in flash version 5, or 4...

 

[FlashTag]

I agree make sure the other PC’s have the plugins.
Also make sure selected the right insert. You want
the Flash insert it also detect the right plugin for
Flash MC you are using and ask if you want to download
the correct plugin version.

 

[deepcalling]

Ok, When useing dreamweaver design page, you know the page that you draw your layers and tables in, it seems that when I look in the browsaer window to preview my work(page) All looks well, but when i go bact to the design window every thing is out of place.Im so frustrated can any body help!?.
There are no short cuts to any place worth going...

 

[Rosee]

Thanks for your responses.

I did try to publish the the movie to lower version of the Flash, even Flash 3. It still did not work on other computers. I am doing this project for company's staff training.

We would like to burn CDs when the project completed so that our employees can use it at any time on any computer. And I don't think that all our staff would have Flash Player on their home PC.

What I suppose to do in order to make the program work on any computers? I went to Macromedia online user forum and did not get the solution yet. Please let me know if you know there are any other web sites would address this topic.

Thanks a lot.

 

[jimoblak]

Hold it...

How are you checking this on other computers? Did you simply distribute the HTML file by itself? Do they view the page though the internet (with a '

http://...'

address)? Are they viewing it through a shared folder on your computer?

 

[Rosee]

This is how I view the page.......

I published the page to our company's intranet. Than I use an internal web address to view the page. At this point, it only works on my office pc which has the Dreamweaver loaded. It does not work on any other compters, both server side and client side.

It will be nice to have the page showing with the program.I really don't think it worth to buy Dreamweaver for every computer for that.

Thanks for asking

 

[jimoblak]

Dreamweaver has nothing to do with your ability to view the page. I was joking earlier. It must be something else.

Can you select the flash graphic on the page in Dreamweaver's design view, switch to source view and copy the highlighted text into this forum? This will reveal the problem.

 

[Rosee]

Is it true that all PCs need to have Flash Player plugin in order to run the page? If yes, what is the easiest way to load the plugin on client computers(not all of our user computers have Internet connection)? Thanks.

Here is the code:

<object classid=&quot;clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000&quot; codebase=&quot;

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0&quot;

width=&quot;550&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;>
<param name=movie value=&quot;../Flash/TextMask44.swf&quot;>
<param name=quality value=high>
<embed src=&quot;../Flash/TextMask44.swf&quot; quality=high pluginspage=&quot;

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&quot;

type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;>
</embed>
</object>

 

[jimoblak]

Ahh... Your code is fine (no absolute refs to your own hard drive).

Your best bet is to download the player standalone version to share with your peers (the Macromedia site tries to force you to do an active install to one computer: look for the full installer). You probably also have the installer somewhere on your Flash program CD. The player installer file is less than a Mb (maybe less than 300kb) so you could send it to your peers as an email attachment and give them instructions to simply 'run it'.