weird... we've almost finished the site and now we cant seem to get it to work on ANY macs at all.. I've tried ll the MAcs and work and at freinds houses and I cant get it to show up.. its like the plugins aren't there it just shows a blank white box where the flash is suppose to be... Ive even tried it on internet explorer and netscape (on a mac) and I still cant get it to go?
anyone seen anything liek this? are there any standard requirments I need to not do with my implemtation of my flash file?? I'm lost!
Q9. I have the right version Flash Player/Plugin, why doesn't my movie work?
A. You need to increase the memory allocated to the application.
This is only relevant to OS 9 and previous users, OS X dynamically allocates memory.
Select the application that is running the flash movie (e.g. Flash Player, Internet Explorer etc.) in the Finder.
Go to the File menu and choose "Get Info".
An information window for the selected application appears, choose memory from the dropdown menu.
Increase the "Preferred Size" box by 1000.
e.g. 800KB --> 1800KB
Depending on the size of your movie, it may need more, but keep the order of magnitude you increase by in the thousands initially.
add an html link under the movie that says something along the lines of:
"Site not showing up? Click here for help"
And link it to a help page that has links to plugin sites, browser site and other information that would be helpful, such as Mac OS9 users may need to increase thier applications memory.
I believe the problem is in your HTML and not with the .swf
Have you tried just loading the .swf straight into Explorer without all the other HTML tags? Open IE and go to File>Open then select your .swf
If it works then its not a problem with that and I'd look at your HTML code/////
I do remeber getting the .swf file to work on a mac, and I did think it was my html, but I have no other ideas of how to do my html.. I believe that las bit of code is a php script (no working) for a counter, so I dont think that has anything to do with it.. dose it??
Noticed that your main SWF name has spaces in it... that could be the reason for the problem with the html on a mac...?
It could be a problem with the base attribute, cos Mac browsers tend to resolve relative urls differently esp when loading in external movies... try specifying a base attribute: http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...ts/tn4157.html
using safari with OS X 10.2.6 it seems to load but doesn't display anything after it's done.
by chance i tried the contextual menu which showed something i haven't really seen before
see attached pic - it's german, but the grey text says "movie not loaded"
I tired taking out the spacing in the name.. see if that works I dont have a mac, only at work so I wouldn't be able to test it yet.
ALso I found this in my code.
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<embed src="medianflashsiteCHarlie.swf"
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WE aren't even using a .swf with this name and it still is "embedding" it... could the macs not display the whole flash intell it finds this file???
also, my .swf is too big, becuae we haven't fixed the music player where its in a serarete swf file, so all the music is stored in one
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