Re: FLASH: Hybrid HTML and Flash

[Helen Triolo]

Matt Wobensmith wrote:

> 

> All you have to do is select one of these templates in the Publish Settings,

> select "GIF" or "JPEG" in the Formats tab, and hit "Publish". It's all done

> for you, automatically.

> 

> Apologies if this answer is too simplistic, but I saw your post and wondered

> why you weren't using this method?

> 

Probably the same reason I wasn't: didn't know about it!  So, I've just

tried your suggestion, Matt, because it came just as I needed it, but

I'm having some trouble.  I have a Flash announcement in a table cell

which rotates through 3 messages and sends the viewer to the right page

with a GetURL.  Works fine in both IE and NN if Flash is installed

(http://www.pmas.com, halfway down page on far right).  


But now I've published the Flash movie with the replacement gif option

and copied all the relevant code (from js thru </object>) into the table

cell (no, from <map> thru </object> -- very cool that Flash creates a

map to replace the geturl!) and it still works fine in IE and NN with

the plugin installed.  So I uploaded it to test it without the plugin.


First, I tried Gregg's suggestion of renaming the flash folder to

deactivate the activex in IE, but IE still ran the flash, even after I

had cleared the IE cache.  So I went to the mm site and followed the

instructions for removing the activex plugin.  Now when I go to the page

(http://www.pmas.com/pmas2.html), I get an error ("Install on Demand has

detected an error. Object doesn't support this property or method.") and

a big blank where the replacement gif should be.  Why?


Second, I want to test in Netscape but I can't find anything in mm

technotes about disabling/removing the flash plugin from NN.  Can I do

that?


Thanks for any help.  I'm working in WinNT with Netscape 4.5 and IE 5.0.

It would be great to get this working!


tia,

Helen

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