Problems with SWF

Hello there,
I've used Lightbox 2 on my site as a means for an efficiant
photo gallery. When the image is clicked, it opens us within the
page and the rest of the page goes a very dark grew...however the
Flash SWF don't, they stay just as they are. Is there a way to send
SWF to the back or something?
Thanks in advance,
Kristopher (UK).

Probably because you used _root within your scrollbar code.
If that's the
case you can fix by setting lockroot to true, within your
scroll bar swf.
Just place a this._lockroot = true; as the first line in
frame 1's code.
That being said, it's better to simply avoid using _root.
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Alright now it makes more "sense".
Your SWF problem is caused by a bug in Captivate. I have encountered this many many times. Basically if you import a Flash animation and you have more than 1 slide in Captivate it will play to the end before you get to the slide with the animation. It's a really annoying bug that also occurs if you insert an SWF created in Captivate into a master Captivate project.
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1. Try and Externalize your animations when you publish your Captivate project. This can sometimes remove the problem. You can edit the settings in Preferences - Publish Settings.
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/Michael
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Hello,
Sorry for my English, im learning, but im not yet a expert.
I have problem with my Dreamwaver, when I put a .swf (I've done my web with Flash) and press F12 i cant see my SWF. And the error mensager is the follow:
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Thnx.
Andrés
Buenas tardes,
Estoy diseñado mi pagina web. La he hecho en Flash, pero a la hora de exportarla a Dreamwaver y al darle al F12 para verla como seria en el FireFox, me sale este mensaje
Si le doy aceptar, me aprece el fondo de mi web, pero donde esta la parte de flash se queda totalmente en blanco. He probado otros exploradores y me sale el mismo mensaje. He actualizado el flash a la última versión, etc. Alguien me podría ayudar?.
Muchas gracias,
Andrés

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I think (at a first look) that you should put a stop() command at each frame of your movie.
Playhead is running through your movie from one frame to another and back to beginning if you don't stop it with stop() command.
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in frame two of your movie put ActionScript: stop();
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