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**missedtarget04** · 05-03-2004, 10:46 AM

I have a flash banner called image1.swf. I used frontpage to put the html code in for the banner in the header.html file I need for my php website. it comes up a gray box but when you put your mouse over it it says movie not loaded. I tried to rebuild the whole header and it still does not work. The funny thing is I ca open the image1.swf with IE and it shows up. Here is the code I used:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="000000" width="340">  <object classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="730" height="55" id="image1" align>
<param name="movie" value="image1.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#CCCCCC">
<embed src="image1.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="730" height="55" name="image1" align type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>
</td>
</tr></table>

**Cory** · 12:49 PM

I see really only one possibility, which is a problem in your linking. You've linked to your .swf file with a <embed src="image1.swf"...>, which means it will need to know where exactly that file is located. So either you can change it to <embed src="http://www.yourdomain.com/image1.swf"...>, or get a base code on your page, such as <base href="http://www.yourdomain.com/"> in between your <head></head> tags. Of course, if your .swf file is in a subfolder, you'll have to edit the values in the embed code to meet those standards.

P.S. If you're going to change the code of the .swf file on the page, make sure you change it everywhere image1.swf appears, which should be two.

Example 1:
<head>
<base href="http://www.yourdomain.com/">
</head>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="000000" width="340">  <object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="730" height="55" id="image1" align>
<param name="movie" value="image1.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#CCCCCC">
<embed src="image1.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="730" height="55" name="image1" align type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>
</td>
</tr></table>

Example 2:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="000000" width="340">  <object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="730" height="55" id="image1" align>
<param name="movie" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/image1.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#CCCCCC">
<embed src='http://www.yourdomain.com/image1.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="730" height="55" name="image1" align type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>
</td>
</tr></table>

**missedtarget04** · 05-03-2004, 02:22 PM

Ok that helped a little. But now the text that is in my flash_text file is not showing up. I compared the 2 and the only thing changed was the path to the image1.swf as you said it in example 2.

Any idea why this would happen?

**missedtarget04** · 05-04-2004, 02:29 PM

I tried to see where the flash_text file was in the code but I didn't see it anywhere. If I have it on the hard drive it works but not on the server.

**Cory** · 05-04-2004, 05:11 PM

Did you manually enter the embed code, or did you publish from the Flash program, then copy the HTML code from that page?

**missedtarget04** · 05-04-2004, 06:34 PM

I didn't make the flash a friend did and he said that all I had to do was edit the text in the Flash_text file and it would work. I put the flash in a header.html using Frontpage and it worked on the hard drive. When i uploaded it it did not work. if there is a way to add the text using html that would be great. I don't have the fla or I would try to edit it that way. I was thinking about it and was wondering if I had to add the flash_text file to the header page?

**Cory** · 05-05-2004, 01:52 AM

I have never used a flash_text file, so I wouldn't know how to go about doing that...But I would bet that it'd help to have that file on your server in the same folder as the file.

**missedtarget04** · 05-05-2004, 08:44 AM

yea I tried that as well. No good. I am going to try a few things and see if I can fix it. Thanks for the ideas though

**Cory** · 05-05-2004, 01:07 PM

Surely. Hope you get it fixed soon

**missedtarget04** · 05-06-2004, 01:34 AM

well I found out what the problem was. In the image1.swf the action script for the text needs to point to the url that has the flash_text.txt file. Now the bad part: My friend deleted the fla files so now I have to try to find some way to edit it. Any ideas on that?

**Arfan** · 05-06-2004, 01:54 PM

use a file recovery program