macromedia flash sitedesign: Hi all,

[This continues an older thread that may have slipped by with the New Year- don't know if it's "legal " to do this or not; pls bear with me and let me know if not.]

I created a movie set to scale, which works fine viewed on OSX 2.8 in IE and Safari but not in Netscape 7.1.

The movie displays at what appears to be a quarter of its size:
http://www.susanprager.com/test/McKinney/McK_spl1.html

It seems to work properly at this URL although it is not set to scale:
http://www.susanprager.com/test/McKinney/McK_spl1a.html

At this URL, it scales but the bottom half of the movie seems to be obscured by another element and I cannot tell what?s going on in Dreamweaver. It is not in a table. I tried another version in a table but there is only one tr td defined and the same problem occurs.
http://susanprager.com/test/McKinney/McK_ss_test.htm

The movie's publish settings are:

Flash Player 5 (although it was created in MX 2004 Professional)
Dimensions are set to percent with 100 width and height.
Scale is default

ABeall suggested I try linking to the .swf, which does work.

If anyone has any ideas I'd really appreciate hearing them.

Thank you for your time.

Susan

while scaleing netscape will only take 100 pixels instead of 100%
i think better make 2 files , one for netscape and other for other browsers. we had solved the issue like that. or set the dimensions in pixels

hope this helps

AnishVarghese

Hi Anish,

Not sure I understand- are you saying that Netscape understands "100%" to be 100 pixels?

Would you mind taking a look at the source code for referring URL #1? It scales in Netscape and uses "100%" in the "embed" tag.

I tried to reverse engineer this page, removing the tracking info, customization code and links/text, using my movie, to no avail.

Many thanks for your thoughts.

Susan



Referring URLs
http://www.sspr.com/

hi susan,

wht i mean is..

u had set the dimension in 100 %, both width and height, so this will scale the movie according to the movie size, i suppose u need that property.
when ur setting the dimension as 100%, wht netscape will do is, it will take only width as 100 px and height as 100 px, netscape won't take % value, means it won't scale movie as IE does

i saw the code. this is urs
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<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0
" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="intro_sspr.swf"> <PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=noborder> <PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=B> <PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=opaque> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE="#000000"> <EMBED src="intro_sspr.swf" loop=false quality=high scale=noborder salign=B wmode=opaque bgcolor="#000000" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
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change it like this
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<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0
" WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="400">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="intro_sspr.swf"> <PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=noborder> <PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=B> <PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=opaque> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE="#000000"> <EMBED src="intro_sspr.swf" loop=false quality=high scale=noborder salign=B wmode=opaque bgcolor="#000000" " WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="400"> TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
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i got the width and height of ur movie its 600 X 400, i think for netscape u hav to keep this dimension, or may be u hav to make a new movie for netscape.

wht i did for similar issue. i had made one flash file of dimension somewht 780 X 385. then made 2 htm files one for IE and other for Netscape, for ie fixed the dimension in % and for netscape fixed the dimension in pixels. Then redirected the page from index page.[ u will get this option in dreamweaver itself]

also i noticed that there is no loading script for ur movie, for movies above 30 kb u hav to add loading script.
add this script--

1. make a separate scene before ur movie scene
2. first frame add this script
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if (Number(_framesloaded) == Number(_totalframes)) {
play();
} else {
stop();
}
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AnishVarghese

Hi Anish,

Thank you very much! I will try to implement today and see how it goes.

kind regards,
Susan