Startup Movie Prob

[rhosk]

Real simple - real quick, I have a Flash startup movie that doesn't launch on a WIN98 box. Works fine on XP. All the other flash in the project work great (same version, etc).

I can't error check it (or can I?), so I'm lost here :huh

PS, it happened a couple of weeks ago on my Client's machine, but I blew it off at the time.

Anyway, what would make it not work??

[TJ_Tigger]

Real simple - real quick, I have a Flash startup movie that doesn't launch on a WIN98 box. Works fine on XP. All the other flash in the project work great (same version, etc).

I can't error check it (or can I?), so I'm lost here :huh

PS, it happened a couple of weeks ago on my Client's machine, but I blew it off at the time.

Anyway, what would make it not work??

Probably obvious but, did you check the version of Flash player they have on the Win98 machine?

Tigg

[rhosk]

Yes sir, installed Flash Player 7.0...thanks.

[Corey]

Harumph. Also obvious, did you get a chance to try running the .swf on it's own under Win98 (no AMS)? Barring all else a publishing to projector instead of .swf is one possible swervearound but then you would have to script it by hand, etc. If all else fails this seems like it might be worthy of a support ticket.

[rhosk]

Yeah, I'll give them a sample, I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for the thoughts though :yes

[rhosk]

Harumph. Also obvious, did you get a chance to try running the .swf on it's own under Win98 (no AMS)?

Yeah, that is it. I installed the Flash 7 ActiveX, but this does nothing for the swf files. Like I said, the flash files inside the webobjects/flashobjects are working good.

So, new problem.

What does the "startup movie" (flash) use for its container??? Or does it rely on the stand-alone player to be installed and assiociated? That's "wacked" (as the kids would say). Why isn't it using a webobject or flashobject?

(sigh) I guess projector it is, but I absolutely hate workarounds.

So I guess the conclusion, if they don't have the Flash stand-alone Player installed (and some users don't) then don't use a Flash Startup Movie? Wacked I say :D

[Worm]

Ron,

As workarounds go. Mask a page to the size of your Flash Object and play it on a normal page. Then unmask the project when you jump to the true start page.

[rhosk]

I see exactly what you're saying, but the startup is fullscreen.

If I can find out what the startup is looking for, I may be able to rectify it. Devs? :)

It's not a great big deal, just bothers me is all.

[Brett]

The Flash intro movie does not require a standalone flash player in any way. It is justa window with an embedded Flash ActiveX control. This is the same way that Flash objects are implemented on pages.

[rhosk]

This is the same way that Flash objects are implemented on pages.

That's just it, the Flash Object works fine in my pages on the same system??

The startup movie is just skipped every time. Do you have any idea why it wouldn't even launch at all? What does the autorun look for (besides _ShowIntroVideo being false/true).

I do believe the intro taskbar button flashes for a brief sec, but that's it - bypasses it.

It's nothing I can submit a support ticket for, because you probably couldn't reproduce the conditions (or lack thereof) on the system.