SWF playing error

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December 12, 2016
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Hello,

I've created moving balls in Adobe Animate CC 2017 and then exported into SWF file. The animation is based on Action Script 3.0. I've a problem when imporing the file in Adobe Captivate as the file won't play. The file in the following link:

Dropbox - balls2.swf

insert swf

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eLearning Guy

Inspiring

I'm seeing a similar issue when testing your swf in a blank project here. Notice that it does play correctly when previewed within the Captivate editor (i.e., press the space bar when viewing the timeline in Cp). But does not work on preview or publish.

Which version of Flash Player is the swf published to? If possible I would drop it down to a lower flash player target and see if that helps, though doubtful. Another thought, which I think is more likely the culprit - are you targeting the root timeline with any actionscript? It's been years since I bothered publishing anything to Flash but I do recall that being an issue, as basically you're loading your root timeline into a new one generated by Cp at runtime.

If you can post the source .fla I can take a look.

Mark

RodWard

Community Expert

Pressing the spacebar (or even F3 key) in the Captivate Edit view window is NOT an effective test of how an SWF project plays when published. You are just playing the timeline, NOT publishing to SWF by doing this.

I still think there is a strong possibility your issue with the published SWF not playing is due to Flash Global Security. But a lot of people don't realise that it's gotten much more complex recently to set this up on your system. Setting it up in the Flash Player Manager app in the Control Panel DOESN'T mean that it is automatically set up for each and every browser you are using on your system.

The best test is to upload the Flash content to a web server and test it from there. If it plays from a web server, your issue is Flash Security when played locally.

In many browsers nowadays you have to manually configure the Flash security by using the web-based tool provided (originally) by Macromedia. To get to this web tool you need to start playing the content in a browser, then right-click on the browser window and choose Global Settings from the context menu. When you do it this way, you are directly configuring it for the specific browser you are using at the time. But even with this tool it's a little unintuitive to configure a folder as the trusted location. The quickest way is just to type in the path to the highest level folder that will contain all of the content you might ever want to test. If you set up a special Publish folder on the C drive and always publish into that, then this task will be a lot easier.

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Anonymous

As I commented before, I've no problem with the security folder as I'm using the trusted one as set in Flash setting in the control panel.

Yes, the SWF file works with browsers such as Firefox or Explorer. You can check the that file was uploaded in the question!.

Lilybiri

Legend

How did you import? Normal work flow is with the Media button, Animation.

A

Anonymous

Yes, but when it imports, it shows white rectangle only and the SWF is not played.

RodWard

Community Expert

Make sure the publish folder location has been set as a trusted location in your browser's Flash Global Security settings.

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