Flash Problems

[Tricky]

Evening all, hope someone can help me.

I'm having a few problems with the flash on my site working in the browser. It works okay when I view it in actinic. Could somebody please have a look at the code, particularly the last line as its showing in red.

</script>
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="170" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="C:\Program Files\Actinic v8\Sites\Site1\BlackMenu.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="C:\Program Files\Actinic v8\Sites\Site1\BlackMenu.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="170" height="350"></embed></object></table>

Thanks in advance Richard

[leehack]

</script>
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="170" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="C:\Program Files\Actinic v8\Sites\Site1\BlackMenu.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="C:\Program Files\Actinic v8\Sites\Site1\BlackMenu.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="170" height="350"></embed></object> </table>

First three things that stand out to me, if the world doesn't have access to your C: drive, don't expect them to see files on it. File should be added into additional files and it will then be accessible from within your acatalog folder.

If you get stuck on what to do, search the forum, it is a very common problem, been answered and solved many times before.

[los_design]

In addtion to Leeski's comments which are spot on and pin points a common intermediate error with local file refs, if you are viewing in FF you will need to check what player version of swf you are publishing in and in reverse, what version your viewing player is. They must be the same...

to clarify, developing and publishing in v9 will NOT be viewable with an older player nor editable in an older version of flash.

Also ensure you object refs are absolute and not relative.

Regards