Flash won't play in odd places

[Rancor]

I've created and published a Flash file for Flash 6 player. I opened it up on my local machine and everything works perfectly.

I put it on the test server, and when I open it there, it doesn't play at all. It just opens and displays black. I put it on the live server, and it plays perfectly there, if I'm on a PC, but not on a Mac.

What's the deal? Why is my Flash game being so picky?

[jasonsplace]

Do all of the computers have the Flash Player installed on them?

[Rancor]

Yes, they play all the other available Flash files.

I was experimenting some more and I just stumbled across the cause of the problem. I moved the intro scene to the back and started into the game, and it worked fine (on the test server, anyway; I haven't tried it on the Mac yet, but I'm going to run with this for a bit for now).

So there's something wrong with the preloader or Intro scene.

I'll report back.

[Rancor]

Okay, after only too much work, I figured out that I didn't have a linked Flash file (namely the preloader) in the same directory. It's been a while since I worked on this, and I forgot I did that.

For some reason, that doesn't matter to PCs on the web, but I guess Macs choke if it can't find the linked library information. Additionally, I don't know why it worked in a web page on one of my test servers and nowhere else.

In any case, it's all working now. Thanks for your help.