No solution to Dreamweaver's failure to incorporate skins?
by Tom Wise
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May 23, 2008 at 7:03:52 am
I have authored several videos in Flash CS3 and attempted to insert them into web pages I am creating in Dreamweaver CS3.
The first major obstacle I faced was Dreamweaver's refusal to insert the .swf's via the Insert > Media > Flash Video route, despite ubiquitous tutorial instructions to use those commands. (The swf files were all grayed out and not selectable, despite the .js. .flv, .fla, .swf and HTML files being all together in the same folder.) Concerned that my copy of Dreamweaver might be defective, I downloaded a fresh trial version from Adobe, installed it on a second drive and encountered the same problem with it. After much online research and troubleshooting I discovered that the .swf files could be manually dragged into the Dreamweaver workspace from the finder window.
Unfortunately the information pertaining to the skins created in Flash CS3 is evidently lost in this process and the skins do not show up when the pages are previewed in Firefox or Safari. (They preview perfectly inside Flash.) I have found posts regarding this issue in other Adobe support forums, including the blog sites maintained by Adobe, but no definitive answer seems to be offered by anyone.
Could this be a publishing error? Or should I scrap Dreamweaver in favor of another web authoring program? (Shouldn't there be absolute compatibility between the CS3 applications?)
Re: No solution to Dreamweaver's failure to incorporate skins? by Tom Wise on Jun 9, 2008 at 9:30:22 am
Hi, Abraham. Yes, I read your article, thanks. Here is what was causing the problem I was having:
After authoring the .swf in Adobe Flash CS3, I was leaving the .flv,.swf, RunActiveContent.js & published html files in a sub-folder of their own. This is why the videos would not successfully preview in any browsers after insertion via Dreamweaver. The Dreamweaver document (HTML page containing the flash videos) has to be in the SAME folder with all flash content and supporting files.
Since this single web page contains multiple Flash videos, it makes for an inelegantly gigantic folder, but it works now.
