Flash prventing images from showing
April 7, 2007 12:00 AM
I have created a bit of Flash code that reads a variable from Lectora containing the name of the course and then formats it in an SWF in the company font. (I have done this rather than using text replacement in Lectora because the company font is not included on most people's computers, and I can embed it in a SWF.)I have noticed, however, that the pages on which this SWF is included (almost all of them, since it's at the title level) have trouble loading all images. The SWF generally renders fine, but the remaining images randomly fail to appear. I can then refresh the page only to see a different random selection of images fail to appear. (The most common images that fail are those associated with buttons.)Two interesting things about this:This error only occurs when I'm viewing it as an Internet site. Viewing the files on my local hard drive, I don't see this problem happening, and likewise when I view the files from the networked drive that serves as our web server (so, the same files as when I view over the internet, the difference being the address begins with N: rather than http:)The problem got noticeably worse after we replaced the aforementioned networked drive/web server last week.This doesn't seem to be an issue with Lectora per se - although the only difference between this and other SWFs I have been including (that do not appear to cause this problem) is that it grabs a variable from Lectora - but I was wondering if anyone has run into this problem. It seems to be an issue with server settings (timeout?) and I am curious to know if any web-savvy folks out there can describe what is happening and suggest ways to ask IT to fix it.
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