HELP! error in site, cant figure it out.

October 31st, 2006, 4:08 pm

So when I surf to my site http://www.evenhosting.com there is a flash animation that happens and contains my nav bar, however all of a sudden today, out of the blue it stopped working for me. When I surf using firefox half the animation plays and half doesnt (its split into two peices) but when my friend on the same router connects using the same os and browser it shows up fine, it also shows up fine when I use safari. Why does it only not show up on my comp in the one browser. Can some of you surf to it and tell me if you can see the flash animation. What happens is when it doesnt play all I see is a big rectangle in the upper right hand of the page that says loading....

I really apreciate the help!

October 31st, 2006, 5:16 pm

ya, you have issues with your preloader only with firefox, IE works just fine.
could be a little missing line of code in your action script for the preloader, firefox is a little buggy at times :/
change your preloader, you should use:

onClipEvent (load)
{
total = _root.getBytesTotal();
}


is that what your using?

October 31st, 2006, 6:48 pm

do you see an error in this code?

<td><script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0','width','487','height','201','src','flash/0308_main_2_intro','quality','High','pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','flash/0308_main_2_intro','_cx','12885','_cy','5318','flashvars','value','wmode','Window','play','-1','loop','0','salign','value','menu','-1','base','value','allowscriptaccess','always','scale','ShowAll','devicefont','0','embedmovie','0','swremote','value','moviedata','value','seamlesstabbing','1' ); //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=6,0,29,0" width="487" height="201">
<param name="movie" value="flash/0308_main_2_intro.swf">
<param name="quality" value="High">
<param name="_cx" value="12885">
<param name="_cy" value="5318">
<param name="FlashVars" value>
<param name="Src" value="flash/0308_main_2_intro.swf">
<param name="WMode" value="Window">
<param name="Play" value="-1">
<param name="Loop" value="0">
<param name="SAlign" value>
<param name="Menu" value="-1">
<param name="Base" value>
<param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always">
<param name="Scale" value="ShowAll">
<param name="DeviceFont" value="0">
<param name="EmbedMovie" value="0">

<param name="SWRemote" value>
<param name="MovieData" value>
<param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1">
<embed src="flash/0308_main_2_intro.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="487" height="201"></embed></object></noscript></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
<!--FLASH-->

November 1st, 2006, 2:07 am

I see a variable named salign, isn't that align?

EDIT: littlephoenix is probably right.
EDIT: my experience with Firefox and flash is that Firefox zooms out of the Flashfile. And you'll have to use many layers, not all in óne.
EDIT: I detected something strange in the code again. At the end of the code I see </table></td>. This isn't very logical, the </td> tag should be placed before you end the </table>. Firefox is very strict with this, but IE doesn't realy care and just counts this as good.

November 1st, 2006, 4:38 am

remove all the junk <param name=
all you need is:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="400" height="80">
<param name="movie" value="your.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="your.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="80"></embed>
</object>

if that doesnt work, its your preloader.

November 1st, 2006, 12:21 pm

i am using firefox and your site works fine for me.

November 1st, 2006, 12:39 pm

Same here...Firefox 2.0 and there are no visible errors.

November 1st, 2006, 3:07 pm

well I just fixed the error can some people with different browsers check it out to make sure it displays correctly, http://www.evenhosting.com

Thnx

November 1st, 2006, 6:59 pm

yup works great now
what was the problem? for any one out there experiencing the same issue!
thanks

November 1st, 2006, 9:23 pm

I think that the problem was as follows: I updated to the lates version of dreamweaver (by downloading the patch) and it told me when it opend the document that some of the tags or tables or something would not display corectly in IE 7 so it asked me if I wanted it to fix it, I said yes and it stoped working in firefox. Honestly all I did to fix it was delete the flash file and then reimport the swf file and it worked. I'm not sure why it worked but I'm not one to question good things