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I just ran into this problem myself.

I discovered for me, it had something to do with moving my images around to a different folder.
(ie: My main flash file was in one folder.. but I had moved...

Do you want the user to control it via a "slider" of some sort?
(ie: handle that they slide up/down... or left/right that controls the alpha?)

Or buttons that they click (ie: one button increases...

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has come across tutorials/lessons on how to go about creating a "featured" item that can be placed on the homepage of a site.

For example:
www.bestbuy.com...

seems to be working after two things...
A) Adding "delete this.onEnterFrame;" within the 'if' statement.
B) FTP'ing the CORRECT file to the server (smack myself in the head)

So my code is now...

would it be possible to post your file or a link to it?

After slowly going crazy, I have decided to post my problem here.

It seems to go to the right frame, but it STOPS...
There is no action script code in the frame it's sent to.


...

Found my problem... I guess the terminology would be "problem with folder path"
found at: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-123639.html

The swf would play fine on it's own,...

I have embedded an swf file into an html (well actually, an shtml) page using the "embed the right way" code given in the Newbies section...
(prior to this code/js, I was using different embed...

I did two things to reslove:

changed " _root.getBytes.... " to _root.themovieClip.getBytes.."


this.onEnterFrame = function() {
tb = _root.mainContent_MC.getBytesTotal();
tl =...

Thanks!
My biggest mis-understanding, was that when you go "Test Movie" it's actually using a different player, than if you go "export movie" and then open it. Even though the two look pretty much...

argh... something must be messed up with my system... I did an "open with", and there was still a flash player v8 something on my system... same thing.
Does it have anything to do with my browsers?...

Did they get rid of this option on the flash player 9?
Here's my screen shot:
http://www.sunsigns.ca/temp/flashplayer_screenshot.gif

I checked out rragan's other posts... and doesn't look like their posts were answered... someone said "your page has a preloader" and they responded "it's a simulated preloader".

Rragan, if you...

I'll be keeping an careful eye on your thread... I too am having pre-loading probs with external swf's. (My thread is a couple below this one)

Sorry... I should have mentioned that when testing, I was online.
(re: http://www.sunsigns.ca/temp/dbi/dbi.swf)

The button to the far right (digital printing) loads an swf file that is approx. 4...

Any books that might help me solve my problem?
(I might pick up a copy of Flash CS3 Bible... but after flipping through it at the bookstore, I didn't catch anything on dealing with loading external...

wouldn't the desired option be "click" or "on release"?
and this should be placed in the frame action code... not on the button itself?

oops... If you were looking for something simpler, I'd try:
On the timeline, using script like:


yourbuttonInstanceName.onRelease = function(){

_root.yourMovieClip.gotoAndPlay...

Not sure if this is any help, but I just tried out variables for mine.
ie: if this button is pressed, set variable to this button.

you can take a look at my code... it's in this thread:...

Unfortunately, I'm still having problems...
Here's the zipped file: www.sunsigns.ca/temp/dbi/dbi.zip
here's the sample swf: www.sunsigns.ca/temp/dbi/dbi.swf

Problem:
I don't think I'm...

Heh... I guess 4b in my previous post is not really needed... because if the clip is already loaded the loading screen would be pretty much bypassed instantly.

Steve,
Thanks for taking not only the time to look at my prob, but also fix it!

I'm still having problems with it though... gonna see how I can apply it to my setup.
(in the topnav mc, I have...

I'm having troubles with a preloader...
I only have the pre-loader set up for ONE button so far (the first button at the top left, "Vinyl")
Here's the zipped FLA/SWF files:...

Alrighty... got my external swf's workin' like a charm.
Next phase: Preloading (incase anyone is using a dialup on our site, I would like a progress bar)

I'm thinking of (or should I say, already...

I just got to fine tune the position of the swf within the MC, but seems to be on the right track ;)

Now... should I still have a blank MC for each swf file?
(So I'd have like 8 blank MC's on my...