strange problem w/embedded flash

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Hi,

I'm seeing a strange problem w/an embedded flash in my banner at
test.berninafourcorners.com. In IE 6, it shows the old embedded flash
that I updated and replaced earlier today. FF, Netscape and Opera all
display the new, updated embedded flash in the banner (it has no
classroom images, just pics of machines). I checked my directories to
ensure I have only one flash in them and republished but IE continues to
display the incorrect embedded flash. Any ideas?
 
If the flash file has the same name, IE probably didn't download the new
version. Delete the files in your Temporary Internet Files folder and try
again.

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Grrr..... still no joy w/IE. The other browsers get this right, why not
IE? If anyone would like to test, the site is
test.berninafourcorners.com. The incorrect flash will show a picture of
a class while the correct one will only show pics of sewing machines.
 
How can we tell which banner we are seeing?

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Something strange that I discovered about this problem: If you right
click on the flash in IE, it will tell you it is version 7 but, if you
do the same in the other browsers - that display it correctly - it shows
as version 8. I really don't understand this now. Both versions of the
flash were made with the same copy of SwishMax.
 
Hi Thomas,

The wrong one will have a pic of some people in it. The correct one
just has pics of sewing machines....
 
I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 IE 6 with Flash Player 8, I see the one with the people.

Try delete the flash file from your web, run Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks, then re-import the
flash file back into your web, then insert on your page, you might try changing the file name
slightly as well.
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Hi Thomas

I appreciate your help. I re-exported the movie from Swish - to a
different file name - re-embedded it and re-calc'd links and then
re-published. Now, IE doesn't show anything but just says "1 item
remaining to load" in the status bar at the bottom. Sigh....
 
Well, I upgraded IE to version 8 of Flash but still no joy. Any clues
as to what is causing the problem in IE?
 
In your top.htm file located in the _borders folder, switch to HTML / Code View and change the link
to the Flash movie to be absolute in both of the following lines.

<param name="movie" value="machines_flash.swf">
<embed src="machines_flash.swf"

to

<param name="movie" value="http://test.berninafourcorners.com/_borders/machines_flash.swf">
<embed src="http://test.berninafourcorners.com/_borders/machines_flash.swf"


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Hi Thomas,

Thanks for sticking w/me on this but using to an absolute URL only broke
it in Opera as well as IE. I'm not sure what the difference is between
this flash and the first one I did but I'm starting to lose my hair....
 
Sorry, you need to change the path to be absolute to the actual location of the movie within the
current web, which is:

http://test.berninafourcorners.com/_borders/machines_flash.swf

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Hi Charles,

Thanks for looking but I just rebuilt the flash movie - with a new
filename - and re-inserted it. Unfortunately, this didn't fix the
problem. At this point, I can only assume there is an internal problem
in the movie file somewhere. Perhaps IE doesn't like one of the pics or
something....
 
Maybe it's the underscore causing the problem? Not sure myself.

But, if I go to http://test.berninafourcorners.com/_borders/, it will let me
browse the directory (not good btw), and I can select the file directly and
it will play that way.

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Charles Ezzell
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Charles, Thomas,

I discovered that, if I load a page from my local web-site for
test.berninafourcorners.com, it displays the correct flash embed. So,
not sure why it doesn't play when I publish? I have selected local to
remote and publish all files vs changed only, but that doesn't seem to
correct the problem.
 
I have a flash embed at another site I'm working on that displays just
fine in IE. The difference between the two - besides content - is the
problem child is in a shared border and the one that plays correctly, is
not. The code looks to be noted correctly in the top.htm page that is
my top shared border (from what I can tell anyway). And it plays
correctly locally so I'm at a loss as to what is causing the problem.
 
The problem turned out to be that the local copy of the swf file in the
top.htm file didnot explicitly state _border/banner.swf Correcting that
fixed the problem. Thanks to Charles, Kevin ahd Thomas for your help.
 
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