Today, I was working on a flash website for a client when I ran into an interesting problem: My Action-Scripted sounds weren't playing from a internally loaded swf.

The setup was simple:
Using Flash 8, I made a main movie that loads the interface, and when another section is clicked it loads within the main swf. I was also using the same script that I usually do for sound, which always seems to work (and is subsequently the one Adobe/Macromedia recommends).

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Today I decided to update the html of my main page to appear more like the code blog.

Mainly it was adding the background gradient to the top and some new JavaScript. The background CSS was a very simple effect using the html tag AND the body tag for displaying background images.

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At work, a colleague and I were converting a huge Director MX2004 CD lesson to a Flash 8 lesson for web delivery.

Within the Director mx 2004 lesson, there were a TON of Quicktime movies that played within the lesson. We batch changed all these into FLVs when we ran into a problem. We needed the flash time-line to advance when the video was finished.

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