Hi Jennifer If you re-read Sam's comments about FLA's and SWF's he says that a SWF is the resultant file from exporting from a FLA. You don't rename the FLA in order to place it on your site. You need to run the "publish" command from within your Flash IDE.
I am a bit worried at the potential learning curve you might be doing here if you don't understand the difference between these two files, or that you have to place the files you are wanting to show people onto a server... Is there a friend who knows a bit about web development that you can ask to help explain a few things to you? This is really the last email I can write on this thread. Hopefully you can follow these instructions: 1) export your test_quiz.swf from the Flash IDE 2) upload test_quiz.swf and expressinstall.swf onto your desired folder on your server 3) use the swfobject code generator. Put in these values: SWFObject (.js): http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject.js Adobe Express Install: (+select checkbox) expressInstall.swf Flash (.swf): test_quiz.swf (or whatever is your actault .swf file name you exported from Flash, and uploaded to the server) You will end up with an HTML file which looks like this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <script type="text/javascript" src=" http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject.js";></script> <script type="text/javascript"> swfobject.registerObject("flashcontent", "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf"); </script> </head> <body> <div> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="200" height="200" id="flashcontent"> <param name="movie" value="test_quiz.swf" /> <!--[if !IE]>--> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="test_quiz.swf" width="200" height="200"> <!--<![endif]--> alt content goes here <!--[if !IE]>--> </object> <!--<![endif]--> </object> </div> </body> </html> 4) Upload this html file into the same folder you placed your other two files in. That's it. Aran On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:17 AM, JayABee <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Aran > > Well from the beginning Sam Sherlock suggested that I only needed to > name the file 'test_quiz.fla' and I did not need to change the > extension to swf . (as I understood it?!?) > Then also from reading one of his later posts, it seemed to suggest > that I did not need to upload the flash file to the server anway. I > did think that ws a bit strange. > > Annyway this time I have uploaded 'expressinstall.swf' as you > suggested to the server and pointed to its location within the code. > the file that I have uploaded is ' test_quiz.fla ' , but I also tried > renaming it 'test_quiz.swf' , and it didn't work either. > > I found an example of swf on the web, > The URL is: http://azureliving.com/azureflash2010.swf > and this was the code: > <html><body leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 scroll=no> <embed width=100% > height=100% fullscreen=yes src="http://azureliving.com/ > azureFlash2010.swf"></body></html>g > > so going by the example given above I tried to rename my page: ' > test_flash_page.swf ' instead of the html extension that I have been > using. Needless to say that was worse than useless lol . I am > guessing the above example does not embed the flash but just uses the > file outright. > > So here is my link: www.beecroftprecision.com/test_flash_page.html > I hope somebody out there can help me finally get to the bottom of it > - so that I can see swfobject code working ..... > > Many Thanks > JayABee :-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SWFObject" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en.
