Moving files doesn't update Flash Skins in DW CS 4?

Question

Hello,
on a page I've got a flash movie (.swf with skin (via
importing/converting a qt in adobe media encoder, then importing
video into flash, adding a skin, them exporting to site folder an
opening in DW CS4).
it works fine in the browsers.
now when I want to change the position of the page in my site
folder (move it into different folder) DW asks me if to update
links, I click okay, but it doesn't update the code/links whatever
(to show me the skin for controlling the movie). What have I
forgotten to consider? Maybe alsready at exporting the file(s) from
Flash?
Thanks in advance,
beatrice

Answer 1

beatrice posted in macromedia.dreamweaver
> As far as I understand the .swf holds the url of the flv
in it's
> code, so those should be kept together. and the skin swf
is
> connected to the ?large' .swf, so those should be kept
together,
> too.
(I will assume you're using the FLVPlayback component in
Flash)
The .swf that holds the url of the flv (let's call that
player.swf for
now) uses whatever link you give it. You can give it a root
relative
location so it will work from anywhere on your site.
/videos/flvs/film1.flv for example.
And, depending on the object/embed code generated, you should
be able
to edit that in the code view in DW. Something like
&streamname=/videos/flvs/film1
And you can then store player.swf in a different location.
/media/swfs/player.swf for example.
I think DW will update links to player.swf if you move
player.swf to a
different location, but I don't know if it will update
object/embed
code.
However, it seems that .swf files created with the
FLVPlayback
component are hard-coded to look for the skin file in the
current
location - that is, the location of the html file with the
object/embed
code.
> But I don't want my pages/html folders be cluttered with
.swf
> files and I
> don't want the videos folder get cluttered by pages
files ... but
> keep them clean sorted in their kind of media folders
.... and be
> able ot separately shovel them around or move them to
subfolders
> if neccessary and to rename html pages with the
sitemanagement in
> DW to update the links automatically...
Understandable.
>
> Or the other way, I thought that .swf and flv plus .swf
skin
> could be put onto
> any other html page, but then the skin does not appear.
it seems
> connected with the html code, but how and why?
Oops. I think I answered this above. I think it is the
FLVPlayback
component that creates a hard-coded path to the current
directory.
> it would mean that once created video holding html pages
cannot
> be moved in
> the site folder anymore. (or that the swfs must be
published from
> within flash again with different name/target folders...
> That would not be a very flexible sitemanagement...
> There must be sth I am missing here...
Again, you can store the player .swf files anywhere, and the
.flv files
anywhere, but AFAIK, the skin .swf files must be in the same
folders as
the .html files that reference them.
There's a chance that somebody in the Flash forums has
created a work-
around, but I haven't been there in a while.
I haven't tested, but you /might/ be able to set a BASE href
element to
get around it. Of course, all other links in that page would
need to be
root relative after doing so.
Another method (if supported by your host) might be using
.htaccess
with a rewrite directive.
If you're feeling adventurous, you can edit (a copy of) the
FLVPlayback
component or one or more of its actionscript files found in
the
Flash configuration folder.
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)