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migocki - 14 Feb 2007 06:29 GMT

HELP!

I've developed a small Flash [8] slideshow of ten 4x6 jpgs, optimized it,
published it, and inserted it into a Dreamweaver [8] basic XHTML-compliant
page, saved the page and previewed it in a variety of browsers. It works
perfectly.

Then I FTP'd it along with other files and photos for the site.and tested it
out on the same browsers: everything EXCEPT the slideshow now works perfectly;
there's not a trace of the ss.

What am I doing wrong? I've retraced all of my steps several times -- I even
re-FTP'd it -- all with the same result. I've followed all the steps which have
worked for years in the past -- see one of my websites at http:/
www.enotecatoscanawinebistro.com/photos.htm as an example.

Thanks in advance for your good advice. I'm feeling pretty dumb at the moment.

David

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MotionMaker - 14 Feb 2007 12:44 GMT

I see the slide show using FireFox 2 and the Flash 9 player.

In general some items to check include:

1. Test it with the default HTML file that Flash produces. See File->Publish
Setting and check the HTML box.
2. Right mouse click over where the movie is supposed to display in the Web
browser and get the version number of the of the Flash player. Perhaps you
published to a higher player number that installed in browser and used a
feature that prevents it from working.
3. Be sure the capitalization of ALL the file names are exact in the HTML. If
you used drag and drop or dialogs in DW they should be ok. But if you hand
coded and have different capitalization, on a Linux or Unix server you have a
problem.
4. View the source in the Web Browser and be sure it is the correct source
file. As well in Flash Actionscripting you likely handcoded file names. You may
have FTP's to a different folder or from a different folder or HTML file
version.
5. Be sure if you are using folders in the linked files, they also have
correct capitalization and match your local machine.

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