Firestarter

[Velaria]

I am an avid user of the CoffeeCup suite of software, and I'm using the Firestarter program to create (save as Flash) Flash animations for my website.

The problem that I seem to have is, I upload them, <embed> them in the page, the page and all it's content loads fine, but the flash animation never loads. The loading progress indicator at the bottom of the browser never completes, and it never finished loading the file. :( The files aren't huge, largest 150k, and there are only two of them, so it shouldn't be a size problem, so I'm at a loss.

http://www.malevolentspirits.com/flashtest.htm

Any thoughts? I'm hoping it's just something small that I've missed.

Thanks!!

[MannInc]

I'm not sure whether this is the problem or not, but take a look at this line:

codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab
#version=4,0,0,0" ID=banner1 WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=150>

I think it should be:

codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash4/cabs/swflash.cab
#version=4,0,0,0" ID=banner1 WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=150>

Hope this helps!

[Velaria]

hmm, nope :( Still doing the same thing. Thanks for the quick reply though!! :)

[MannInc]

Other than that, the coding appears to be correct. Are the two swf files in the same directory as the test page? Have they been uploaded?

Just trying to help figure out the problem.

Hope this helps!

[Velaria]

yep, verified that they are both there, and I've uploaded and tried it with both ascii and binary format on the upload, no difference in the result

[bettyfordclinic]

I think it might be to do with the Flash file, which I couldn't get to work either through your html file or with the swf address typed straight into my browser (bypassing your html).

Try a test with a smaller, simpler swf file, or else make the original FLA file availbale for us to have a bug test with (if it isn't too big).

bfc