Troubles saving flash text (or buttons) in CS3

I have been trying to build a banner in dreamweaver cs3 with
flash text, but i can neither save nor apply the text as i keep
getting the error message,
"text1.swf is an invalid file name. Please enter a different
name."
and i continue to get the message regardless of whatever name
(with or without the .swf extension) I use.
help????

It appears to be at least partly related to what I mentioned, if not entirely. If you look in the html code you will see the following line...
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Your web page utilizes this file (Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js) to display the Flash content provided you have javascript allowed for your web browser. So you need to create the same Scripts folder on the server and place the AC_RunActiveContent.js file in that folder.
Alternatively, you could place it in the same folder as your html file and just lose the folder reference in the line of code, the important thing is that the web page laods that js file....
<script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

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penmyles wrote:
> Since last posting this, I have been talking to tech.
suport, but I still don't
> have a solution.
>
> The MX files can open in Flash 8. But if I save them
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> open them in Flash CS3, it still doesn't work.
>
> Also, I have been able to open some MX files that were
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>
> Here is a sample of one of the files that I cannot open
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>
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Flash text and flash buttons in DW CS4

Hi,
I have installed DW CS4 on my pc with Vista Home Premium 64
Bit...I have edit my website homepage and I have discovered that I
can't edit all flash text and buttons that I have created with DW
CS3! I have see that the adobe has removed from CS4 version this
option! So, now how I can resolve this problem??
I have try to install also the CS3 version but I don't
understand because I can't no more activated it from internet or
phone option!
I'm very angry for this, now I have to recreate from the
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> I'm very angry for this, now I have to recreate from the
begin all flash
> text
> and buttons of my website with other software? perhaps
to buy also the
> Flash
> CS4 version for the solution? is this the new idea of
adobe with their new
> CS4
> version?
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Especially
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will those users
do?
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move or rename
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"s76x" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have installed DW CS4 on my pc with Vista Home Premium
64 Bit...I have
> edit
> my website homepage and I have discovered that I can't
edit all flash text
> and
> buttons that I have created with DW CS3! I have see that
the adobe has
> removed
> from CS4 version this option! So, now how I can resolve
this problem??
> I have try to install also the CS3 version but I don't
understand because
> I
> can't no more activated it from internet or phone
option!
>
> I'm very angry for this, now I have to recreate from the
begin all flash
> text
> and buttons of my website with other software? perhaps
to buy also the
> Flash
> CS4 version for the solution? is this the new idea of
adobe with their new
> CS4
> version?
>

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Hello
I'm trying to create some basic flash text, but everytime I
try to save the "swf" file within Dreamweaver CS3's "Insert Flash
Text" dialog box I get the following error message,
"welcome.swf is an invalid file name. Please enter a
different name."
and i continue to get the message regardless of whatever
name I use.
I'm using a Mac platform.
Can someone help?
thanks

He's asking for the poster to copy the code and paste it into
a reply to
this forum so that we can all see what is happening.
Just so you'll know, using Flash text is always a bad idea -
the whole thing
is being removed from DWCS4 as a result.
> Here is my code, BTW:
> file:///DIANA'S 2G/Inclass Site/index.html
Never name your hard drive/computer using an apostrophe.
It'll drive you and
DW mad. Of course, we cannot see that file since it is on
your hard drive.
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"Sactowriter" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I don't understand this reply. When you talk of copying
the code into the
> reply, are you asking him to send you the code so you
can assess what's
> going
> on? I have this same problem and would like to know how
to resolve it and
> I
> can't tell by your response, sorry!
>
> Here is my code, BTW:
> file:///DIANA'S 2G/Inclass Site/index.html
>
> I am on iMac with OS X Version 10.5.5
> Help!
>
>
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
>
>
> > "welcome.swf is an invalid file name. Please enter
a different name."
>
> Are you using mac os?
>
> as a guess from years of this- there is a "funky"
character in the hd
> name,
> your username, or a folder name in the path to this
local site folder. Dw
> trips up on the character and can't resolved the path to
the local site
> folder.
>
> so it doesn't create Flash Text or Flash Buttons and
gives an Undefined
> Error.
>
> And will give constant nags that "the selected homepage
is not in the
> local
> site folder"
>
> please do this.
> open a new dw document using File->new
> -->don't save this file<--
> type some text, select it, and using the property
inspector's Browse to
> File
> folder icon make a link to this site's "homepage"
>
> view the code, copy the link code and paste into reply.
>
> it should be an absolute full hard drive path like this:
>
href="file=///hdname/Users/username/folder/folder/file.html"
>
> technote: "File or folder name in Mac OS may break
Dreamweaver
> functionality"
>
>
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14452
>
>
> --
> Alan
> Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
>
>
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Can Firefox still play locally saved flash games inside of the browser?

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of my viewers are too afraid, too naive, or their systems are too
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> Peter, as for a list of parameters, I mean precisely
what options should
I
> check off in the Flash 8 export movie dialog box when
saving Flash 7
compatible
> SWF.
There seems to be come confusion here. It's not a matter of
'checking off'
options, rather of publish settings. In the 'Publish
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the important
thing is not to use any *features* that depend on Flash
Player 8 - these
include (but are not limited to!) filters, any of the new
text rendering
options (custom anti-alias), any of the new Classes (geom,
filters, display,
external) etc etc etc.
> I cannot dissagree more. I have examples where my symbol
elements shrink
about
> half a pixel compared to when exported normally in Flash
8. This is aweful
when
> the edges of my animated sections don't line up with the
non-Flash
content. I
> tried saving my FLA as Flash MX2004, reopened and
exported the movie as
Flash 7
> and that didn't help.
Again, you are a bit confused I think. Obviously they will be
different than
if published for FP8 - that wasn't my point. What I said was:
> > If you are publishing for Flash Player 7, your text
and bitmaps will
look
> > the same as
> > they would if yo uhad created the content in Flash
MX2004.
So, using Flash 8 to author but publishing for FP7 will look
the same as
using Flash MX2004 ('Flash 7') to create your content. You
are saying your
bitmaps shrink "compared to when exported normally in Flash
8" - I never
mentioned publishing for Flash 8.
> Hmmm, the exported Flash 7 text (generated in Flash 8)
looks weak even
when
> playing it on the Flash 8 Player. Something is converted
in the process
and my
> choice of fonts is set.
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for FP7 -
playing it in FP8 won;t magically make it look better! For
that, you would
have to *publish* for FP8.
> How does one follow the FP7 method for this
> device/pixel font option when exporting? I assume we are
now spoiled by
better
> text rendering in Flash 8. I may have to live with that
one...
http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/?q=using+pixel+fonts+in+flash
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This problem comes and goes, but at the moment its pretty bad.
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If you are opening files over a network or saving them to a network server, please cease and desist immediately in the event you are currently experiencing problems with one or more files. Working across a network is not supported.
See:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/322391.html
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I am using Dreamweaver CS3 on a Windows XP computer. In the
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not seeing all of my installed fonts. I see a few OpenType and a
few True Type fonts, but more than half of my installed fonts are
not showing up in the list. I can see all my fonts in the "Edit
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parts of Dreamweaver can see all of my fonts.
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> If Flash Text is being dropped, what is going to replace
it, if anything?
What has always replaced it - images, or some image
replacement technique
like sIFR, or TIP.
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr
or here -
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/articles/sifr_demo.html
http://www.tjkdesign.com
> And the reason that I'm using Flash Text, is that I am
taking an Adobe
> Certified Class in Dreamweaver and the using Flash Text
was a requirement.
You mean you are taking a class from an Adobe Certified
Instructor, and
he/she is requiring that? Who is that? What a waste of class
time....
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> Some of the fonts that aren't showing up are True Type
some are MS Open
> Type
> some are Adobe Open Type, there seems to be no pattern.
Most of my Adobe
> Open
> Type fonts are not showing up, and those are the ones
that I use the most.
>
> If Flash Text is being dropped, what is going to replace
it, if anything?
>
> And the reason that I'm using Flash Text, is that I am
taking an Adobe
> Certified Class in Dreamweaver and the using Flash Text
was a requirement.
>

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Flash Text tool to create vector clean text and would like
background to be transparent

I don't believe you can do that with the Flash text tool. You
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Flash Text tool as the function is deprecated and will be
discontinued in all future versions.
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