desperate preloader problem

[masha]

Please help! Desperate problem.
Our Flash class have all experienced a similar preloader problem: can anyone out there please help!

The flash movie has a preloader in the first scene which loops until all the frames are loaded, and then advances to the first frame of the next scene.

When tested (control > test movie, show streaming) it works perfectly: the preloader comes up, then the movie starts.

When placed in an HTML page using Dreamweaver, it works when tested in the Dreamweaver authoring environment. But when we view the html page in the browser, only the preloader shows, and it does not advance to the movie.

We are using: Flash 5
Dreamweaver 4
Internet explorer 5.1
and working on E - Macs.

The preloader code we are using is
if (_framesloaded == _totalframes){
gotoAndPlay ("Scene2", 1);
}

Does anyone out there know where we are going wrong?

[farafiro]

are there any attachments??

[usr radioshack]

i use this....

ifFrameLoaded("Sceneyouareloading", totalframesinthatscene) {
gotoAndPlay("Sceneyouareloading", 1);
}


you can also make some dynamic text boxes and define variables using flash so you can get its total filesize, etc etc.... but that my friend, will preload your page... i do believe :)

[masha]

Hi - we seem to have solved our problem. On more testing, it came out that not only preloaders but all interactivity did not work once the flash movie was placed in an htm page and published. The problem went away when we downloaded the latest flash player. But I am still mistified: why would it work when we test it in the flash player, but not when viewed in the web browser if the Flash player was the problem?

[masha]

Sorry, forgot to add: Thanks so much for your help!
Masha