This is a personal appeal based on not knowing what else to do.
I came to this site a while ago (by accident really) because being a newbie to Flash I needed somewhere that would help explain things simply to people like me who have no idea about coding etc…and I was really impressed with how you guys make it all look so easy and the work you do to make this site so cool.
I am a British guy teaching English in Moscow and I wanted to make a website to show photos to keep in touch with my folks back home and show them where I am and what I’ve been up to etc. Like I said I am new to Flash ( a clumsy dabbler) and the tutorials here are a GODSEND so I followed the one for making a photogallery in XML.
I posted a thread on it a couple of days ago but it seems to be sinking without trace, and I’m worried that I don’t know where else to turn for help on this. Flash experts aren.t so easy to come by.
I will copy and paste here the content of the thread. I saw your helpful replies to a couple of other posters and thought I would take the chance of asking you personally for help on this. I tried to launch my website two days ago -
but you can see that the photos in the SWF don’t load.
I hope you can help…
:cross-eye
"I downloaded the files, pasted the code, and put my own photos in to make a cool photo gallery in Flash. So far so good.
I repeated the process to create a SECOND gallery, for a different set of photos. But the second gallery kept only showing the photos from the first gallery. Obviously, the “images” XML file in notepad needed re-naming for the second gallery. So, I re-named the second SWF. “gallery-2” and the second .XML file “Images-2.XML”.
This worked. Now I had two separate galleries I could use on two separate pages of my site. When I play the SWF files from my hard drive they work fine. They work fine when i preview my site in Dreamweaver .But --!!—
Soon as I FTP all my site files to my site (using WS-FTP) - The SWF files load into the page, but there are no photos in the gallery.
The gallery buttons and interface work fine, but why would the pics not appear in the SWF? I thought they were embedded in there??
OK, I lie - One single photo does appear in the first gallery, and repeats on every button. But the SWF plays fine from my hard drive…"
