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Ki0te
07-05-2005, 12:46 PM
I'm kinda new to flash and fter weeks of getting this rather simple flash project to work on my hard drive I can't get it to work online.
http://www.cashton.co.uk/photos.swf
Its an XML driven photo gallery that currently has two major problems
1) Only some of the thumbs show up. All of Abel Tasman does but none of Auckland. I made all the thumbs in photoshop using an automated process of resizing and saving for web.
They're all under 2kb, non progressive, have lowercase names and extensions with no spaces in the filename. The file structure online is identical to the one on my hard drive

2) Only a few of the main photos display themselves the second one in Abel Tasman does but none of the others in the same folder do. Like the thumbs I made them all inexactly the same way and they're all under 25Kb so loading time shouldn't be more than a few secs on broadband.

I just can't think whats wrong as it works perfectly locally

Can anyone take a guess what might be wrong?

P.S. Yes I know the font on the buttons is hard to read its on my "to fix later list"

Flash Gordon
07-05-2005, 03:07 PM
try adding a preloader to your swf, just to see if it helps any. HERE (http://actionscripts.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=74988&highlight=Preloader+tutorials+2004)
Also, where are the photos? Are they in a different folder. Are you sure the path is right?

Ki0te
07-05-2005, 04:51 PM
I'll try and add the preloader tonight thanks for the link saves me trying to find a tut :)

the images are in seperate foldders but I'm sure all all the paths are right as I literally ftped the folder I'm working from locally to the site. I'm going to try re-editing some photos see if I made a mistake somewhere

Ki0te
07-05-2005, 05:21 PM
Hurray I've found the problem ... As they same to assume makes an Ass out of U and Me I'd assumed that the files I FTP'd would remain named as I had them BUT no cuteftp decided to capatilise some of the extentions :( my scripts only work with jpg not JPG

oldnewbie
07-06-2005, 04:08 AM
Cuteftp doesn't decide anything on it's own!
The one using the software does!