Dreamweaver - again!!!

Cracking Media · #11 (**permalink**) 21-07-2008, 09:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarah-Ink Promotions

Ive tried exporting instead of saving as and it still doesnt give me the option to save as flv, what am I doing wrong ????

Sarah, you said originally that you have made a flash movie, but what did you make it in?

The original video was presumably recorded on a video camera which you then captured onto your computer and edited in some video editing software. What software was it and what other export options does that video editing software give you? Can you export to mov format or maybe wmv?

Peter

Sarah-Ink Promotions · #12 (**permalink**) 21-07-2008, 09:49

no, sorry if i didnt explain it clearly, its not a video, its a flash file (created in flash) which is our website, it has amnimation in it, I need to put this in dreamweaver to launch it. When I look at in flash I can make the window bigger and smaller and the file resizes itself to fit but it doesnt do that when I put it in dreamweaver - I just need to make it so that when people look at it on their screen it resizes to fit - ive launched it as it is - www.inkcreative.co.uk - but would like it to be central and the right size on everyones screens

Thanks

Cracking Media · #13 (**permalink**) 21-07-2008, 10:16

I was just looking at your page in Firebug and added

align="middle" to your <p> tag which did centre it, but then when I refreshed your page to try it again and make sure that was what did it, the page has changed, you have removed the <p> tag. Also the <object> tags have gone. Are you able to put the page back to what you had?

An Oasis · #14 (**permalink**) 21-07-2008, 10:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarah-Ink Promotions

Ive tried exporting instead of saving as and it still doesnt give me the option to save as flv, what am I doing wrong ????

The only way to save the file is to *.fla file if you wish to keep any changes you make in the working file. I can't understand what you are trying to do, can you explain the processes that you are going through, that should make it easier to understand.

Cracking Media · #15 (**permalink**) 21-07-2008, 11:26

Sarah,

I have been looking at this some more and think this is what you need to do.

1. Publish your Flash page and make sure you output an HTML page.
2. This will contain a few comments at the top, then some Javascript, then the actual swf object. It will look something like the following:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled-1</title>
<script language="javascript">AC_FL_RunContent = 0;</script>
<script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" language="javascript"></script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">



<script language="javascript">
if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.");
} else {
AC_FL_RunContent(
'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0',
'width', '550',
'height', '400',
'src', 'Untitled-1',
'quality', 'high',
'pluginspage', 'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer',
'align', 'middle',
'play', 'true',
'loop', 'true',
'scale', 'showall',
'wmode', 'window',
'devicefont', 'false',
'id', 'Untitled-1',
'bgcolor', '#ffffff',
'name', 'Untitled-1',
'menu', 'true',
'allowFullScreen', 'false',
'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain',
'movie', 'Untitled-1',
'salign', ''
  //end AC code
}
</script>
<noscript>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="Untitled-1" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param name="movie" value="Untitled-1.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <embed src="Untitled-1.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="Untitled-1" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</noscript>
</body>
</html>

3. Delete everything in bold and leave mainly just the swf object.
4. In the line above, before the opening <object> tag, add a <center> tag.
5. In the line below the closing </object> tag, add a closing </center> tag.
6. Save your HTML file (index.html) and load it into your browser.

It should now be centred. Try it and see if that works.

Peter

Cracking Media · #16 (**permalink**) 23-07-2008, 00:11

Sarah - I was wondering how you were getting on with this?

Peter

RawRob · #17 (**permalink**) 23-07-2008, 00:39

One way of doing it is to just serve the .swf file directly, ie, if you go here http://www.inkcreative.co.uk/Website.swf then the site displays exactly how you want it. So now all you have to do is make this page display when people enter your url. The best way of doing this is if you have php available create the following file called index.php

PHP Code:


			
<?php
header("Location: http://www.inkcreative.co.uk/Website.swf");
?>

(You will of course need to remove the old index.html file from the server otherwise this new php file will not display.)

Rob

Sarah-Ink Promotions · #18 (**permalink**) 23-07-2008, 09:01

Thanks everyone, I havent had chance to look at this again yet but will try your solutions today and see what happens!