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About Arvind
Expertise
I can answer questions on creating simple games using Director 8 and Director 8.5. Please no questions on 3D aspects. Lingo questions welcomed.

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I am at University and have completed an HND in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and a BSc in Multimedia Technology. Below is my dissertation which is on Interactive Gaming: -

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Topic: Macromedia Director



Expert: Arvind
Date: 8/26/2004
Subject: Shockwave

Question
Hi Arvind,

I made a web page (index.htm) using Dreamweaver and a dcr file (made with Director) was embedded. I could preview this in the Dreamweaver browser but upon uploading both files, i still could not view it. There is this shockwave logo appearing in the middle of the page. Aint sure if it's due to my code, but i just could not locate any errors. Please kindly advise. Thank you for your help.
p/s: My code for your reference -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>BEIKLIN Tongkat Ali, a 100% Pure Water-Soluble Extract</title>
</head>

<body><CENTER>
<object classid="clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw.cab#version=8,5,0,0" width="640" height="480" hspace="10" vspace="30" align="bottom">
 <param name="src" value="Director/beakers.dcr">
 <embed src="Director/beakers.dcr" width="640" height="480" hspace="10" vspace="30" align="bottom" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/"></embed>
</object>

</CENTER>
</body>
</html>


With Regards.


Answer
Hi ernie,

Looking at your code, the 'beakers.dcr' file is the folder named 'Director'.  Now unless the 'index.htm' file is in the same folder, then it will not work.

You can do two things to make it work: -

1.) Place both the 'index.htm' file and 'beakers.dcr' file in the same directory, then delete the 'Director/' text from the 'param' and 'embed' tags.

OR

2.) Make sure that you've referenced the DCR file correctly in the 'param' and 'embed' tags in the code.


Hope that helps!

From Arvind.

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