Flash 8… ARG!

Yes, as cheesy as it sounds, I’m working on building a brandless MP3 player, as well as a movie/FLV player in Flash 8. I downloaded the trial and hit-up the internet for some tutorials, hoping I could finish both within the 30 day limit, making them simply load playlists or some such from an XML file.

(Thereby having two cool flash products I made, perfectly legally, without having to shell out any cash).

With the new Video component ‘thingy’ in Flash 8 it was actually easier to just go through the documentation and build the movie player myself, which works like a charm except for one thing…

When I embed the SWF file anywhere but on an HTML page in the same directory as the SWF itself, the movie plays fine, but the controls never show up. And just to answer the first question for anyone that knows what they’re doing, “yes, I uploaded the skin file”.

So, what’s going on? Because when I view it in the same directory everything is fine. When I copy/paste the exact same OBJECT tags into a blog post, the video plays through once, but the controls never show up.

ARG!

Oh, and as I promised, the story about the war on mice is going to be posted tomorrow.

And just in case you’re celebrating, I hope you all had a happy 01:02:03 04/05/06.

The End.