SWF play buttons not showing


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SWF play buttons not showing
by Gina Farr on Aug 24, 2008 at 11:19:08 pm

Hi Abraham or whomever knows the answer!

I'm wracking my brain to figure out why the swf I've inserted in Dreamweaver CS3 html page doesn't show the play skin! Here are the steps and the site...

1. Imported .mov into Flash CS3, chose skin, set autoplay to false
2. Published movie to directory "salmon" -- everything is there (skin, fla, flv, html, .js, tossed in Scripts folder in "salmon" just in case)
3. Copied all "salmon" files to subdirectory "salmon" in website root
3. In dreamweaver CS3, insert>media>flash>salmon.swf
4. Unchecked autoplay and loop
5. Preview in browser = no play controls, so I can't play movie (BTW, if I had set autoplay=true in Flash, the movie plays automatically, but again, no play skin)
6. Double checking, the skin file and everything else is present on my server in the proper folder
7. swf movie plays in Flash, Flash Player and html that Flash generated AND shows player skin

What I want is for the visitors to play the movie by using the play controls.

The following page shows two movies without play controls (see right sidebar for most obvious example) http://www.wildsoundstories.com/hero.htm. Again, the movies play fine if I select autoplay=yes in Flash, but still no controls.

I'm at my wit's end on this one. Should be soooo simple, right? 7 hours and I'm fried. What's up?

More: Imported .mov using Flash Actionscript 3.0, Flash Player 9

I'm not a coder, but here is the code relating to the movie in the sidebar:

AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','200','height','190','title','biodiversity movie','src','movies/salmon/salmon','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','movies/salmon/salmon' ); //end AC code

Thanks for any help!

Gina

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Re: SWF play buttons not showing
by Abraham Chaffin on Aug 26, 2008 at 6:45:11 pm

Hey Gina,

A couple things that might help you in discovering the solution are this tutorial which describes the process you are needing in depth:

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/embedding-flash-vid...

and / or the answer in the FAQ

http://forums.creativecow.net/faq/adobedreamweaver#45

Hope this helps,

Abraham

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Re: SWF play buttons not showing
by Gina Farr on Aug 26, 2008 at 7:27:39 pm

Thanks, Abraham. I've combed your tutorial and FAQ's and still am stumped.

I can create a swf that auto plays (or not) and has the correct skin in

1. flash player
2. flash publish preview
3. html page flash creates

Soon as I embed the swf into my own page using the correct command: insert>media>flash, save all dependent files in the same directory as the swf and preview in Safari, I see no controls, nor does the skin show up after publishing to the web w/all dependent files present.

Any chance I can post the html code for the flash generated html page that works to compare it with the code generated by Dreamweaver CS3? There's got to be something I can do to fix this.

Since no one else seems to be having this exact problem, do you think there could be something wrong with my FLASH installation? I can successfully insert a swf & files generated by Soundslides in, well, a flash.

Thanks!

Gina

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Re: SWF play buttons not showing
by Abraham Chaffin on Aug 27, 2008 at 3:22:08 pm

Hey Gina,

Post the URL to the page so that I can take a look at the code online...

Abraham

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Re: SWF play buttons not showing
by Gina Farr on Aug 27, 2008 at 4:12:06 pm

Thanks so much for checking, Abraham!

The following page will autoplay a 30 second swf "coyote" in the right column -- I think the code starts somewhere around line 190.

http://www.wildsoundstories.com/coyote.htm

Placed the Scripts file into movies/coyote/... along with the rest, including skinunderplayseekstop.swf

Ideally, coyote movie would play only upon click (love to use coyote-poster.jpg if I knew how) and would show the controls!

Many thanks,

Gina

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Re: SWF play buttons not showing
by Abraham Chaffin on Aug 27, 2008 at 5:02:16 pm

I get this error when I load that page:

Error #2044: Unhandled skinError:. text=[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2035: URL Not Found. URL: SkinUnderPlaySeekStop.swf"]

That means the SkinUnderPlaySeekStop.swf file wasn't uploaded to the right location. That's your skin file...

I believe your issue with the Coyote skin is this file... When you go directly to the swf
http://www.wildsoundstories.com/movies/coyote/coyote.swf
The skin is there, when you go to it from the page it is not there. This means the location of the skin is wrong. Try putting the SkinUnderPlaySeekStop.swf file in the root directory (the same folder as the coyote.htm file).

Abraham

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Re: SWF play buttons not showing
by Gina Farr on Aug 27, 2008 at 5:07:10 pm

Oh! You are my hero!

thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you

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