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swf runs but does not render -- possible causes?

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    • CommentAuthordexter
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2007
     
    hi,

    one of the ads supplied by my customer does not render properly when used with swfobject.

    i've put the reduced test case at:

    http://heidiweb.ch/f/test/swfobject-test.htm

    the ad is there and running (you can click it), but not visible.

    my customer uses "swish" to generate flash ads. his other ads render correctly using swfobject, see e.g.: http://heidiweb.ch/

    what could possibly cause this?

    thanks + kind regards!
    • CommentAuthordexter
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2007
     
    forgot to mention: same behaviour with IE and firefox.
    • CommentAuthorGeoff
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2007
     
    hmm, this is an interesting one... i seem to recall seeing this before months ago, but i don't remember what the fix was...

    you might try digging through the old mailing list archives... the search is really slow, but you can use google to search it by using a query like this:

    "movie not playing site:http://lists.deconcept.com/pipermail/swfobject-deconcept.com/"

    (remove the quotes of course)

    there's a couple old threads that show up when you do that search, but i didn't see a solution in the few i looked at.
    • CommentAuthordexter
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2007
     
    gave up on scanning the archives...
    ...but found the solution by experimenting a bit further:

    it seems the background color of the swfobject creation replaces the background color of this swf.

    when giving a different bgcolor, the flash scroll text is visible on that background.
    and if i leave the argument empty everything works just fine, bgcolor again under swf control :-)

    thanks, geoff, great work!

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