Flash Text not showing up in FrontPage or on my computer
Article ID: KB101592
Some templates come with embedded Flash movies with text that you
may change in the HTML by defining variables. However, you may
notice that even after following the instructions, the Flash text
does not change (or perhaps you see "default" placeholder text like
"your text here"), in FrontPage's Normal View or when you Preview in
Browser.
This is most likely a Flash 6 Player issue. To test this, publish
your web site to a temporary place on your server. (Publish to
http://yoursite.com/test instead of http://yoursite.com.) Now, view
your web site off of your web server. If your text shows up fine
there, then follow the instructions below to fix your code so that
you can also view it on your computer.
You can easily fix this by inserting some extra lines of code in
the HTML. If you open your web page, click on the Flash movie, then
go into HTML view, you'll see code that may look something like
this:
[figure 1]*
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
CODEBASE="http://download.macromedia.com/..." WIDTH="400"
HEIGHT="75">
<PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="blue.swf?text1=Heading
here&text2=Your text here">
<PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF">
<EMBED SRC="blue.swf?text1=Heading%20here&text2=Your%20text%20here"
QUALITY="high" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="75"
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download...">
</EMBED>
As you may already know, the italicized text is how you define the Flash text.
To fix this issue, you will want to insert a "FlashVars" parameter in two places:
[figure 2]
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
CODEBASE="http://download.macromedia.com/..." WIDTH="400"
HEIGHT="75">
<PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="blue.swf?text1=Heading
here&text2=Your text here">
<PARAM NAME="FlashVars" VALUE="text1=Heading
here&text2=Your text here">
<PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF">
<EMBED SRC="blue.swf?text1=Heading%20here&text2=Your%20text%20here"
FLASHVARS="text1=Heading%20here&text2=Your%20text%20here"
QUALITY="high" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="75"
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download...">
</EMBED>
First, you will need to insert another "<PARAM...>" tag with the
FlashVars statement. For the "VALUE," simply use the original
variables in the first PARAM statement (just copy and paste!).
Second, you will need to insert a "FLASHVARS" statement inside the
<EMBED ...> tag. Once again, use the same variables as in the "SRC"
part before it.
*Some templates may only have the <EMBED> tag and not all the
<OBJECT...> and <PARAM> tags. In this case, only put the
FLASHVARS="text1=Heading%20here&text2=Your%20text%20here"
statement inside the EMBED tag.
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