Embed SWF into blog

Hope this is the right place to ask. I am having trouble embedding a SWF file that I created into my blog page. I tried to upload it to sites.google.com but the direct link to the SWF file is hidden behind an https:// that I can't get rid of and other people can't see it. How can I embed a SWF into blogger? Are there other free sites where you can simply upload files and link directly to them?

I have also had this issue since www.megaswf.com started charging for hosting services. The solution I found was to host the file on Google Sites as you mentioned, however I created a FileCabinet page, using a blank google template (you can google how to do this) and this enabled me to host the file.
Once the file was hosted, I simple looked up an appropriate html code to embed into Blogger, such as the one here: http://www.free-video-hosting.net/embed-flash.php
When you paste in the url from the google site, it creates a ton of numbers at the end of the URL. You need to delete everything after the .swf of your filename. You need to replace the words "video-filename.swf" with your url both times that it appears.
I hope you have solved the problem by now and hope this is able to help some others...

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be gentle. Thanks!

Treat Flash as any other content and place it within its own
containing div. Position the div in the normal flow of the document
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Experimenting with floats can be fun but you need to read up on
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Again, there are plenty of CSS tutorials on positioning and a
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2. Open the PowerPoint presentation and insert a blank slide for adding simulation.
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Thanks, I really appreciate the information. The only problem is that I have to keep it as a power point presentation. I convert from ppt to a video, so I need to keep it as power point.
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That thread deals with fonts in text-entry boxes (boxes for
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the Captivate machine are correct, what you are saying is happening
cannot
be happening. Something else is going on, like a failure to
save changes, use of non-conforming text-caption boxes with a
resultant loss of margins, or something.
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seeing but I hope someone else can help you out - I may still be
misunderstanding your issue.

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The mask would be a separate layer that sits above the layer your animation is in. So if you right clicked the layer the animation is in and selected mask, then that's not masking it, it turning it into a mask. What you want to do is create another layer above it and draw a rectangle that would be the same size as the stage of the swf. Then if you right click that layer it and select mask, the rectangle will be the mask for the anoimation--allowing only what is beneath it to be viewed.

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But if that AS2 swf loads other swf's, they don't load or display. My FlashBuilder debugger reports no errors or security sand box violations.   I'm using the most elemental code in my AS2 swf so as to not cause problems. This is it in its entirety:
this.onLoad = function(){
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The paths to the remote content are fine because swf's load and display fine from AS2 swf when run on it's own - not embedded in Flex app. They also load and run fine if I cut out the AS2 swf and access directly from my Flex code. So I know there isn't a path issue. More likely not accessing the right layer in the AS2 swf from Flex or something. Or maybe security sandbox violation but I don't see anything reported in the FlashBuilder debug console. When run console just reports:
[SWF] SwfMobile.swf - 2,639,761 bytes after decompression
[SWF] assets/swf/AS2.swf - 1,470 bytes after decompression
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Ah, yes. Using an AVM1 SWF could prove difficult...
I'm going on about 3 hours of sleep at the moment, but let me toss out a few thoughts I have and hopefully something will stick...
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Well it looks like you can in fact link in a a symbol created for AVM1, but it will only come in as a SpriteAsset, and will not include any custom code (which makes sense, since they use entirely different class constructs).
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To the best of my knowledge I can't use the player skin that comes with Captivate without the .cp file, so my proposed solution is to import the .swf into Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, add controls and code that has the movie stopped when opened, and save it as a more user-friendly .swf for the ebook. I am a technical writer, not a programmer, and even though I have spent many hours searching the internet and even reading a book or two about Flash programming, I cannot get a working .swf file. I'm wondering if anyone can point me to example code that will do what I need. I found out about rdcmnd functions and the advantage of the MovieClipLoader class over the loadMovie method, but I seem to be unable to put it all together in a working .swf.
I agree with Captiv8r that a decompiler for Captivate .swf files would be good.

Thanks Captiv8r.
I tried that with no change in behaviour as a result. The video still begins playing as soon as the page it is on opens. This is now my html with the added line:
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According to the forum administrator at Help and Manual (http://helpman.it-authoring.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7681&hilit=flash+swf)
"How Flash files are played is controlled entirely by the Flash file itself. You will need to consult the Captivate documentation or Adobe on this. I think the settings are somewhere in the skins but I don't remember offhand."

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I have installed PowerPoint 2010 beta release on my machine. I was able to attach a SWF file to the presentation successfully. All options to insert a video are located on the Insert tab, in the Media group. Please refer to the link below on how to insert a flash movie to the presentation.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/embed-a-video-in-your-presentation-HA010 374729.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA010338310
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/compatible-audio-and-video-file-formats- in-powerpoint-2010-HA010336709.aspx?CTT=1

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