DW CS3 and Flash Player 8

Question

Myself and colleagues, using the various CS3 tools, have
recently come across a worrying problem in Dreamweaver CS3. We
create Flash movies and save them out in Flash 8 format, so that
they can be played on machines with Flash Player v8 without the
user being prompted to install Player v9, which is not possible for
our student open access machines as student users don't have admin
rights to install to HD. It's no bother exporting a Flash CS3 movie
as Flash 8. When we come to place the Flash 8 movie into a web page
in DW CS3, though, DW puts in Javascript code that forces a check
for Player v9.
Now, we can klunk our way around this by manually editing the
JS and <object> code in every single page, eg:
quote:
<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"
width="700" height="420"
hspace="0" vspace="0"
title="Referencing Websites learning
object">
but this is not a tenable solution in anything but the short
term. Is there a tweak we can make to DW such that, when we embed a
Flash movie in a page, we can either turn off Player version
checking (we do this in the Actionscript so it's redundant to do it
in the HTML/JS) or set it to check for a version earlier than 9?
I've done a Help and Knowledgebase search, and the only
half-relevant doc I can find is the article
on
placing Flash video which refers to
Commands > Remove Flash Video Detection which isn't
available on my copy of DW, at least when a SWF file is embedded
into the page.
Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions.
Cheers
Fred Riley
Learning Technologist, School of Nursing, University of
Nottingham, UK

Answer 1

> Do you, or
> anyone else, know if there's a way to set DW3 to not
insert this version
> checking behaviour by default?
Just don't click on the checkbox when you insert the Flash.
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>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Doreen L. In the Tag
> (object)
> attributes panel located on the right side of your
workspace, you'll see
> 'codebase' with the prompt to download Flash 9. Just
delete this.
> Thanks
> for the tip, Doreen - useful. When I select a SWF on the
page and look in
> Tag
> Inspector, the codebase attribute reads:
>
quote:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9
> ,0,28,0
which can be easily deleted. We'd have to do
this for every
> page
> containing a SWF which would be a bit tedious and
time-consuming. Do you,
> or
> anyone else, know if there's a way to set DW3 to not
insert this version
> checking behaviour by default? Fred
>