Mouseover Flash Site Reveals filename (and I don't want it to!)

[whathedilly45]

Hello,

First post. I'm a fairly new Flash user, so I appreciate your patience in advance. I'm using Flash CS5, and Dreamweaver CS5 to build a site. I'm essentially just using DW as a placeholder for my flash file, which really is the site and all its content. The issue is a minor one, and I'd bet it's a trivial detail I'm overlooking. I saved the .fla file, exported it into my DW .html file, and then previewed it in IE. It looks great, but, when I mouse my cursor over any part of the .fla (basically anywhere in the site), a little box comes up that states what the name of the flash file is. It's annoying and looks unprofessional as hell. Help.

[x-death]

well for a start, if ou want to allow people to preview what you made in flash. you need to open up flash and press file > publish. this will give you an swf file you can put it in your html (Dreamweaver site). it should give you html page as well you can veiw it on.

if you simply place your fla file on a html page, it will think you want them to be able to download the file. so when you preveiw your site
(in dreamweaver the shortcut is F12) you will get a file name bcause its telling you the name of what your downloading. go to a website with something somebody wants you to download and mouse over it and in the bottom of the screen you'll see the filename.

hope this has helped you!

[whathedilly45]

X-death: Thanks for the response. I mis-spoke in my original post. I posted the .swf, not the .fla. It still shows up as a file I "want people to download", as you alluded to. How can I correct this?

[x-death]

well i'm not sure how you put it on your site. so do it this way:
Insert > Media > Flash

that's hoow you embed it on the page. does that fix the problem if not could you screenshot it for me?

[whathedilly45]

That is how I embedded it, but it's still doing it. See it yourself at: http://www.cornerstonecommunitynn.or...flashhome.html

Hope someone can help me figure this out. ha

[whathedilly45]

I figured it out. I had to go into the actual html coding and remove some code. In the "object" tag info html coding, there was a section of code that designated the flash animation's "title". It read:' title="homepagefla". This is why I saw "homepagefla" when I mousedover the page. After removing it from the code, it no longer occurs. Hooray me! Thanks for tryin to help though X.

[x-death]

no, probs. glad it worked out for you