Flash CS5.5, SWF file doesn't load TLF text.

Question

Hiya,
I just downloaded the trial version of Flash 5.5. I was trying to a tutorial from  Adobe Classroom in a Book: Flash Professional CS5. I was trying to do lesson 7 which is all about TLF text.
In the tutorial, you insert text that is TLF text. Most of the text doesn't do anything (it's Read-Only). But there is one area that is supposed to be a Mortgage Calcualtor and functions with ActionScript.
I inserted the ActionScript that makes the Mortgage Calculator text do the proper math. My problem happens when I try to test the movie: the SWF file doesn't display any of the TLF text, and the Output panel gives me the following:
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable TLFTextField is not defined.
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable TCMText is not defined.
I am confused because there aren't any variables with those names in any of the files of the tutorial, or in the ActionScript I entered. Where is Flash getting those variable names from? O_o
I even turned the text back into Classic text to see if that helped, but I still get the error. Could this be a glitch with Flash 5.5?
Thanks for your time.
Tara

Answer 1

That file has all the menu items in it.
A crossdomain file is use as a security measure. Perhaps I see it because I use a webpage on my own server to display your SWF file. Check to see if that's the case with you.
But I gave it another try.
I downloaded the menu.swf and the xml file and stored them in a folder. I use a custom webpage and stored that in the same folder.
Instead of the full URL is simply use the filename.
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000" id="obj1"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/ flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" border="0"
width="870" height="800">
<param name="movie" value="menu.swf">
<param name="quality" value="High">
<embed src="menu.swf"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="obj1"
width="870" height="150"></object>
That works.
When I paste the <object> code in the HTML Snippet and use relative URLs to the menu in the folder mentioned above, I noticed that the XMLHorizontalMenu.xml is expected to be in the Pagename_files folder. That folder belongs to the iWeb pages it is embedded in. When I put the xml file there, the menu works.
You have to check the design of the menu.swf file.
Otherwise, store all files in a separate folder and use a <iframe> to embed it.