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Hello,

I was hoping someone could help me. I made a image slide show in Flash (CS3) and wanted to put in in Dreamweaver (CS3). I published the file in flash and went over to dreamweaver and did the insert - media - flash command and added the .swf

When I test the movie, the buttons and the frame shows up but not the images. Any ideas on why? When I test the html file, it works fine. When I test the movie its self, it works fine too. Its only when it is in the Dreamweaver file do the images disappear.

Thanks for your help in advance!
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For — the symptom (SWF UI visible but images missing only when the SWF is placed inside your Dreamweaver page) almost always points to a path / context problem rather than a Flash publish bug. 's cache thought and 's version-check are reasonable quick checks, but focus first on how the SWF resolves the image URLs when it runs inside a different HTML wrapper.

Practical checks (in order):

  1. Preview the Dreamweaver page in a normal browser and open the developer tools Network tab. Reload and look for requests from the SWF (404/403 or different paths). That shows exactly where the SWF is looking for the images.
  2. Inspect the Dreamweaver page HTML for a <base href="..."> tag. A page base changes how relative URLs resolve and can break SWFs that expect a different base.
  3. If image requests never appear, try running the page from a local web server () or add the folder to the Flash Player Trusted Locations (local file sandbox can block loads).
  4. Compare the working Flash-generated HTML with the Dreamweaver wrapper: check the AC_RunActiveContent.js reference path and any differences in folder structure.

Fixes that reliably work:

  • Use absolute URLs for the images, or make the SWF compute its own base path (AS3: use loaderInfo.url) so loads are relative to the SWF file itself.
  • Remove or adjust a <base> tag, or keep the SWF and its images in the same folder as the Dreamweaver page.
  • Replace older embed scripts with SWFObject (or ensure AC_RunActiveContent.js is referenced correctly).

If those steps still fail, test with a minimal SWF that loads a single image from a known path — that isolates whether the problem is project-specific or an environment/HTML issue.

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FYI -

1. I have the required AC_RunActiveContent.js. file with my swf.

2. I tried copying the code from the html file that was generated by my swf, but when I test the file in dreamweaver, an error comes up saying that i need the AC_RunActiveContent.js.

3. I have flash files on the site that work just fine, it is just this one that is being stupid. I published it as flash version 7, 8 and 9. Nothing works.

Help :(

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Is it too big for the internet cache?

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have you tried using older versions of flash? maybe it works there.

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