[skalie]

I've put together a site for a band, but for some reason the navigation buttons aren't showing up for some people.

I'm thinking a flash player issue ( 8 ) or maybe something to do with non-embedded fonts.

I can't replicate the problem however, everything is working fine for me.

Here's the site, there should be seven red text buttons on the front page.

http://odbabe.nl/

Any thoughts TIA

[Oisín]

I see no buttons; Flash Player 7.

Will now install Flash Player 8 and edit this post to let you know if it works then.

Edit: Yup, they're there now. So apparently, the buttons just don't show up in Flash Player 7, for whatever reason that might be. I haven't used Flash in several years, but isn't there a compability option that allows you to save/export the file to be compatible with older versions of Flash as well?

[skalie]

........... OK, and thanks.

I could publish the movie as Flash 7 ( publish settings ), but then the video wouldn't be supported ( FLVPlayback Component ).

Issue now is why isn't the movie asking for the Flash Player ( 8 ) to be installed.

I removed the player from my system Flash Player Remover, then opened the site in Firefox, Firefox told me I need a plug-in, same with IE ( Windows ).

Guess I'll need to make an intro page asking for people to download the plug-in before viewing the site.

*cringes*

[skalie]

Oh, and the reason the buttons don't show up in the older players, I think, is the real time drop shadow and other effects you can add to text amongst other things with Flash 8 doesn't seem to render.

Damn, now I have to look into Flash Player detection.

[skalie]

for prosperities sake......... ( as opposed to ffs)

I put together some text, "do you see the buttons?" with a link to download the latest player, which of course didn't show up, Do'h.

So browser detection then link to a html page offerring the same download.

Code:
var playerVersion:String = getVersion();
var majorVersion:String = substring(playerVersion, 5, 1);
//trace (majorVersion);
if (majorVersion < 8){
getURL("http://www.scraf.com/odbabe/flash_player.html","_blank");
}

That's sloppy code btw, as it doesn't cover UNIX, but it's a punk rock site ("who cares").

[skalie]

er, there's a "Use Flash Detection" checkbox in the publish settings that by default isn't checked. ( Flash 8 )

Life would have been much simpler had I known that three months ago.

[andi*pandi]

good to know. (works fine here, I have flash 8)

[ciparis]

Originally Posted by skalie

I could publish the movie as Flash 7 ( publish settings ), but then the video wouldn't be supported ( FLVPlayback Component ).

Just a quick note that flash media player components work fine for Flash 6 and later (it's just the new ON2 codecs that are 8-specific). Peldi's FLVPlayer is available separately (and is the basis of the player you mention) and works just fine in Flash 7. More here: http://www.flvplayer.com/

[skalie]

Thanks for the correction ciparis, I hadn't got that far in the testing stage as my navigation buttons weren't showing up without Flash Player 8 ( due to the real time text effect I'm guessing )

[Super Mario]

If the buttons looked exactly like the O.D. Babe logo in the middle the site would look more professional.