SWF files that reside above HTML

How do you create a .SWF that seems to reside above html
content. I have
seen these being used increasingly as advertisements.
Thanks.

I have left the page up for quite a while to see if it is just taking longer to load that clip and that doesn't seem to be it. I am just stumped and honestly not knowledgable on how websites and servers work - just know how to get my documents up so I can send links.

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& rsgetefile("filename"))) %>

Basically you can't send a person to the location as that
would totally
defeat the purpose of placing files above the virtual root.
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> browser using ASP.
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Im making a website which is all in flash and now I have to
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anyone help me.......................Please!

> Im making a website which is all in flash
Too bad. You know what the downsides of this are, right?
> In Dreamweaver i can play the master.swf file and it
works but not in
> Preview
> mode.
Upload your page so we can see the code, please.
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> Im making a website which is all in flash and now I have
to insert the
> Master.swf file in dreamweaver Index.html so i can
upload it on the web.
> Ive
> done all that but when I try and run the Preview in
Safari it just shows
> up
> blank.
> In Dreamweaver i can play the master.swf file and it
works but not in
> Preview
> mode.
>
> I looked all over the net for answers but nothing yet.
Can anyone help
> me.......................Please!
>

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Is it possible to navigate within different version of actionscript files in the same flash player?
I found that actionscript 1 file will not work once i have navigated to actionscript 3 file.
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I can't get a SWF file that runs perfectly in browsers to run in the Business Catalyst environment

My website has 3 parts. The initial HTML page which upon opening plays a video. The link below gives you that.
http://wrysmilebooks.businesscatalyst.com (It takes a few seconds to get going)
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                                                                                                  Thanks,
                                                                                                   Michael McLaughlin

Hello Liam,
         Let me see if I'm understanding you. Are you are saying that it
takes a few seconds for the video to get going after the initial pages
comes up? Yes, I'm aware of that, but it's only a few seconds and then it
runs. Or are you saying that the SWF file takes time to get going? I've
opened the website http://wrysmilebooks.businesscatalyst.com, let the video
run and simply waited, but nothing happens.
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I hate to even ask this question again because I know it's
been posted many times. I've read all the answers I could find but
I'm afraid I still need help. I'm using Dreamweaver CS3 on a Mac.
I've gone in preferences and unchecked "insert using browser-safe
scripts" and "Convert tags" and I've tried to make my paths to the
SWF files relative to the site root but I just can't get it to
work.
There are about three articles on what the Site Root path can
be used for and why it's good or bad. I've read all those and I
guess I'm dense because I just can't figure it out. I select site
root from the "relative to" drop down menu and it makes no
difference whatsoever. I look at the code and it seems OK. This is
what it looks like:
<param name="movie"
value="/public/Images/Regional_Strength/Americas/Americas map.swf"
/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed
src="/public/Images/Regional_Strength/Americas/Americas map.swf"
quality="high" pluginspage=
There are no ... before the directories and that's what it's
supposed to look like. The files still don't show. Part of me has
to wonder how the heck the html file would know which /image
directory the swf file is in because this particular site is one of
many self-contained site directories that sit in my public folder,
each site has it's own image directory. I thought maybe I'm
supposed to put the SWF files in the "image" directory right in the
first level of the public directory. I moved the files in there
changed the code to:
<param name="movie" value="/public/Images/Americas
map.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="/public/Images/Americas map.swf"
quality="high" pluginspage=
It doesn't work. Like I said, after reading the three or so
articles about the site root on the Adobe Help pages, I still don't
understand. I'd appreciate someone clarifying this for me.
Thanks

> <param name="movie" value="/public/Images/Americas
map.swf" />
As a random educated guess, Is your local site folder defined
to the correct
folder? If it isn't, then dw can't make correct site root
relative paths.
Jumping to this from seeing the /public/ folder in the above
path.
Define the local site folder to the folder that directly
contains the site's
homepage index file.
Use the "host directory" line in the remote site info to
correct for any
required subfolder in the ftp setup. If public files need to
be placed in a
subfolder on the remote named public or public_html or htdocs
or www or
similar, put that folder name into the "host directory" line.
Also- to avoid problems adopt a file and folder naming
convention that
doesn't cause you to tear your hair out.
Americas map.swf
There is NO such thing as a blank space in a url. So don't
use blank spaces
in file or folder names.
A conservative naming convention would be to use only
a-->z and 0-->9 and
the _underscore. No blank spaces, no punctuation, no mixed
case.
Right-click on the file or folder in the dw Files Panel and
pick rename.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
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I found a simple solution, and I believe it is what you are looking for.
1. In Flash, go to File>Publish Settings
2. Click on the HTML Tab
3. Where is says Dimensions, select Percent
4. Though it is probably default, make sure the width and height are both set to 100.
5. Click ok then go to File>Publish
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</object>
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My .swf files that I embed using Dreamweaver do not play in any browser, online or local...

I've created a website in Dreamweaver (cs5.5). (I created the swf in flash cs5.5 also) (I also have the latest flash player)
There's a test version here (there's no images, but in the /test/ directory there's the .swf file and a further /Scripts/ directory, created by Dreamweaver when I imported the swf,
containing expressInstall.swf swfobject_modified.js) - www.pureimaginationcakes.com/test/
When I use the preview in browser feature, in both Iexplore and Chrome, I get a grey box where the movie should be.
I used Dreamweaver to import the swf. I did not code anything myself.
Online, there is simply no flash movie where it should be.
When I double click the expressInstall.swf in windows explorer I get a security alert saying Flash Player is blocking expressInstall.swf from communicating with fpdownload.macromedia.com,
and I can't figure out how to change this setting (that's if it's relevant).
I get the same problem from other computers, I don't know what else to do apart from post here.
Would be grateful of any help.

Both test sites work just fine for me.
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http://www.pureimaginationcakes.com/Scripts/swfobject_modified.js
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