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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Huh?
From:	DSG
Date:	Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:15:15 +0100

Brian wrote:
> I used the regular HTML/Flash settings in the Publish Settings dialogue box,
> and then Published my file for checking out where it stands at this point.
> When I click on the resulting file it plays out on my machine,
> but in trying to open it in a browser has caused it to
> hang about halfways through the load.

Are you browsing it from your hard drive or from a url? Are you using a
preloader? connection speed? platform?
Have you looked at an older version of your project that might still be
in your cache? cleared your cache?

> What exactly do I get when I Publish this file?

You can get a lot of things. the bare minimum is this:

1) open .fla file
2) go to publish settings
3) (select) formats: flash (.swf) & html (.html)
4) click publish (After it's published, cancel out of all that)
5) in the folder your .fla is located should be a file called name.swf
and name.html (name being the name of your .fla file).
6) drag or open that html file in a browser. your flash project should play.

If you follow this and the swf still hangs on playback, it could be
something in the actionscripts.

> I expected to get an HTML text file to put into a new .html page file on my
> site, and then just upload the .SWF file for it to refer to... is this
> correct?

Somewhat... flash exports html with <html><head> and other stuff... if
you just want the flash needed code, copy everything from between the
<object -thru- </object> tags and put in your html file.

> Where do I get the HTML code from?

check the folder your .fla file is located and look for the html file
named after your .fla file.

> I thought Flash was supposed to do this stuff for you.

It does.. be patient with it... it needs love too :)\
Hope this helped.

DSG

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