strange problem w/embedded flash

C

CLF

Hi,

I'm seeing a strange problem w/an embedded flash in my banner at
test.berninafourcorners.com. In IE 6, it shows the old embedded flash
that I updated and replaced earlier today. FF, Netscape and Opera all
display the new, updated embedded flash in the banner (it has no
classroom images, just pics of machines). I checked my directories to
ensure I have only one flash in them and republished but IE continues to
display the incorrect embedded flash. Any ideas?
 
K

Kevin Spencer

If the flash file has the same name, IE probably didn't download the new
version. Delete the files in your Temporary Internet Files folder and try
again.

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Microsoft MVP
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but it takes a very long time,
and the bicycle has to *want* to change.
 
C

CLF

Grrr..... still no joy w/IE. The other browsers get this right, why not
IE? If anyone would like to test, the site is
test.berninafourcorners.com. The incorrect flash will show a picture of
a class while the correct one will only show pics of sewing machines.
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

How can we tell which banner we are seeing?

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C

CLF

Something strange that I discovered about this problem: If you right
click on the flash in IE, it will tell you it is version 7 but, if you
do the same in the other browsers - that display it correctly - it shows
as version 8. I really don't understand this now. Both versions of the
flash were made with the same copy of SwishMax.
 
C

CLF

Hi Thomas,

The wrong one will have a pic of some people in it. The correct one
just has pics of sewing machines....
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 IE 6 with Flash Player 8, I see the one with the people.

Try delete the flash file from your web, run Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks, then re-import the
flash file back into your web, then insert on your page, you might try changing the file name
slightly as well.
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C

CLF

Hi Thomas

I appreciate your help. I re-exported the movie from Swish - to a
different file name - re-embedded it and re-calc'd links and then
re-published. Now, IE doesn't show anything but just says "1 item
remaining to load" in the status bar at the bottom. Sigh....
 
C

CLF

Well, I upgraded IE to version 8 of Flash but still no joy. Any clues
as to what is causing the problem in IE?
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

In your top.htm file located in the _borders folder, switch to HTML / Code View and change the link
to the Flash movie to be absolute in both of the following lines.

<param name="movie" value="machines_flash.swf">
<embed src="machines_flash.swf"

to

<param name="movie" value="http://test.berninafourcorners.com/_borders/machines_flash.swf">
<embed src="http://test.berninafourcorners.com/_borders/machines_flash.swf"


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C

CLF

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for sticking w/me on this but using to an absolute URL only broke
it in Opera as well as IE. I'm not sure what the difference is between
this flash and the first one I did but I'm starting to lose my hair....
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Sorry, you need to change the path to be absolute to the actual location of the movie within the
current web, which is:

http://test.berninafourcorners.com/_borders/machines_flash.swf

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C

CLF

Hi Charles,

Thanks for looking but I just rebuilt the flash movie - with a new
filename - and re-inserted it. Unfortunately, this didn't fix the
problem. At this point, I can only assume there is an internal problem
in the movie file somewhere. Perhaps IE doesn't like one of the pics or
something....
 
C

Charles Ezzell \(MSFT\)

Maybe it's the underscore causing the problem? Not sure myself.

But, if I go to http://test.berninafourcorners.com/_borders/, it will let me
browse the directory (not good btw), and I can select the file directly and
it will play that way.

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Charles Ezzell
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C

CLF

Charles, Thomas,

I discovered that, if I load a page from my local web-site for
test.berninafourcorners.com, it displays the correct flash embed. So,
not sure why it doesn't play when I publish? I have selected local to
remote and publish all files vs changed only, but that doesn't seem to
correct the problem.
 
C

CLF

I have a flash embed at another site I'm working on that displays just
fine in IE. The difference between the two - besides content - is the
problem child is in a shared border and the one that plays correctly, is
not. The code looks to be noted correctly in the top.htm page that is
my top shared border (from what I can tell anyway). And it plays
correctly locally so I'm at a loss as to what is causing the problem.
 
C

CLF

The problem turned out to be that the local copy of the swf file in the
top.htm file didnot explicitly state _border/banner.swf Correcting that
fixed the problem. Thanks to Charles, Kevin ahd Thomas for your help.
 

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