Flash Import

Hey everyone, I have run into a little snag.
To start, I will explain what I have done, just to get an
idea of what is going on. I recently acquired a copy of Creative
Suite 3 Web Premium and am using Flash+Dreamweaver to work on a
website. I created the banner on the top of the page using Flash
and the movie works the way I want without problems. I exported the
movie as a *.swf file.
Now using Dreamweaver, I created the base template for all my
pages on the site, and imported the flash movie into the template
and made it a non-editable region for further pages. I tested the
page and everything is working the way I would like it to. So now I
have created 4 pages based off the template and everything is
working great and fine.
So after some work, I realize I wanted to change something in
the flash movie. So I open Flash, make my changes, save and export
(this time to a different name so if I do not like the changes I
can go back to the original). I go back into Dreamweaver, open up
the template file, delete the old flash insert, import the new one,
"Save" it and it updates all 4 pages. I test the template, and the
flash video plays like it should. However, when I open up any of
the pages I made off of the template, the new movie no longer
plays. I have compared the code from the pages to the template to
see if there was variance in the code that it wasn't calling
something, or a file was missing, but everything is where it is
supposed to be, and for the life of me I cannot get the new flash
video to play in any of those HTML files that I made based off the
template file.
What am I doing wrong? I am not a complete novice at
Dreamweaver and flash, but the last time I used it was MX2004, so
maybe there is something in this new version I am missing? All help
is greatly appreciated and I will answer any question I can. Thanks
again.
Blow is the flash insert code for the template and one of the
pages based off of the template.

What folder on the server contains your Scripts folder &
script?
You have different paths on the working & non-working
pages
<script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
If the pages are in the same folder, only one of these script
call paths is
correct.
"nsamaster" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Hey everyone, I have run into a little snag.
>
> To start, I will explain what I have done, just to get
an idea of what is
> going on. I recently acquired a copy of Creative Suite 3
Web Premium and
> am
> using Flash+Dreamweaver to work on a website. I created
the banner on the
> top
> of the page using Flash and the movie works the way I
want without
> problems. I
> exported the movie as a *.swf file.
>
> Now using Dreamweaver, I created the base template for
all my pages on the
> site, and imported the flash movie into the template and
made it a
> non-editable
> region for further pages. I tested the page and
everything is working the
> way
> I would like it to. So now I have created 4 pages based
off the template
> and
> everything is working great and fine.
>
> So after some work, I realize I wanted to change
something in the flash
> movie.
> So I open Flash, make my changes, save and export (this
time to a
> different
> name so if I do not like the changes I can go back to
the original). I
> go
> back into Dreamweaver, open up the template file, delete
the old flash
> insert,
> import the new one, "Save" it and it updates all 4
pages. I test the
> template,
> and the flash video plays like it should. However, when
I open up any of
> the
> pages I made off of the template, the new movie no
longer plays. I have
> compared the code from the pages to the template to see
if there was
> variance
> in the code that it wasn't calling something, or a file
was missing, but
> everything is where it is supposed to be, and for the
life of me I cannot
> get
> the new flash video to play in any of those HTML files
that I made based
> off
> the template file.
>
> What am I doing wrong? I am not a complete novice at
Dreamweaver and
> flash,
> but the last time I used it was MX2004, so maybe there
is something in
> this new
> version I am missing? All help is greatly appreciated
and I will
> answer any
> question I can. Thanks again.
>
> Blow is the flash insert code for the template and one
of the pages based
> off
> of the template.
>
> /**This is the template code where the movie plays like
it should**/
>
> <<BEGIN CODE>>
> <script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
> type="text/javascript"></script>
> </head>
>
> <body bgcolor="#2F436B">
> <table width="1000" height="726" border="1"
align="center"
> bordercolor="#161A23" bgcolor="#161A23">
> <tr align="center" valign="middle">
> <th height="200" scope="col"><script
type="text/javascript">
> AC_FL_RunContent(
> 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
>
version=9,0,28,0','name','banner','width','1000','height','200','align','middle'
>
,'id','banner','title','banner','src','../Flash/banner_menu_space','quality','hi
> gh','pluginspage','
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_
>
Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','../Flash/banner_menu_space' );
//end AC
> code
> </script><noscript><object
> classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=9,0,28,0" name="banner" width="1000" height="200"
align="middle"
> id="banner" title="banner">
> <param name="movie"
value="../Flash/banner_menu_space.swf" />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <embed src="../Flash/banner_menu_space.swf"
width="1000"
> height="200"
> align="middle" quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Versio
> n=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> name="banner"></embed>
> </object></noscript>
> <<END CODE>>
>
>
>
> /**This is the code from index.html where the movie will
not play**/
>
> <<BEGIN CODE>>
> <script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
> type="text/javascript"></script>
> </head>
>
> <body bgcolor="#2F436B">
> <table width="1000" height="726" border="1"
align="center"
> bordercolor="#161A23" bgcolor="#161A23">
> <tr align="center" valign="middle">
> <th height="200" scope="col"><script
type="text/javascript">
> AC_FL_RunContent(
> 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
>
version=9,0,28,0','name','banner','width','1000','height','200','align','middle'
>
,'id','banner','title','banner','src','../Flash/banner_menu_space','quality','hi
> gh','pluginspage','
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_
>
Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','../Flash/banner_menu_space' );
//end AC
> code
> </script><noscript><object
> classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=9,0,28,0" name="banner" width="1000" height="200"
align="middle"
> id="banner" title="banner">
> <param name="movie"
value="Flash/banner_menu_space.swf" />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <embed src="Flash/banner_menu_space.swf" width="1000"
height="200"
> align="middle" quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Versio
> n=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> name="banner"></embed>
> </object></noscript>
> <<END CODE>>
>

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