Now you see it, now you don't

[Garry Jones]

This is one of the worst kind of problems to solve. I used a program that
had a setting to create an SWF file as output.

This is the code it created for me. It works fine on most pcs but on others
nothing happens!

Its baffled me for 2 weeks and I have witnessed the error but cant find a
local browser or security setting to fix it. The first thing to check is if
auto settings have turned off shockwave flash files or failing plugins.
However, this week I reinstalled vista from scratch on a laptop with all
updates and plugins and on this laptop even I can not view it with any
tested browser, it just shows a single black line. However as said, it seems
to work on most other pcs. I wonder if someone can point me in the right
direction.. I did find a google tip to simplify the code and that fixed it
for one person, but even this simplified code does not show the file on the
laptop

This is the (somtimes) erroring code created by the program I used.

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/
swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="180" height="180" id="test"
align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="./media/chasethesunspringfilm09.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="play" value="true" />
<param name="bgColor" value="#FFFFFF" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<embed src="./media/chasethesunspringfilm09.swf" width="180" height="180"
quality="high" play="true" bgColor="#FFFFFF" wmode="transparent"
type="application/x-shockwaveflash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

Here it is in action [url]http://www.scfmotion.se/chasethesun[/url]

And here is a much lighter version of the code that solved the problem so at
least one person who could not view it now can.

<object id="Chase09" data="./media/chasethesunspringfilm09.swf" height="180"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="180">
<param name="movie" value="./media/chasethesunspringfilm09.swf" />
</object>

And that code in action

[url]http://www.scfmotion.se/chase1.html[/url]

One other little problem. On my other pc it works until I have been using
the pc for a while and then it constantly reloads at the second or third
frame, restarting the pc flushes out memory and it fires into life again,
works perfect then. However, other swf files continue to work without
constantly reloading even when my pc is low on resources. So any tip about
use of cache to aid performace would come in handy.

Any help greatly appreciated

Garry Jones
Sweden

[Sean Wilson]

Are you sure the version info is correct in the HTML you posted? That
is, which version of the Flash Player did you publish the swf to?
Your question might be better asked on a Flash forum - this one is for
Director Shockwave, not Shockwave Flash