Skin not showing in video Flash 8

programming flash
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I have a swf that has three buttons. Each button loads an external movie clip into a movie clip (holder_mc). The three buttons are “Video”, “Map” and “Links”.

The video button loads a swf called “TorVideo.swf”. This swf is just an instance of the Flash 8 video component, with parameters set to my video and with autoskinHide set to FALSE. If I test the this swf (TorVideo.swf) it plays the video with the selected skin showing… perfect.

But, when I run my main swf, click the “Video” button, and then “TorVideo.swf” is loaded into “holder_mc”, I get the video, but NOT the skin. I have resized the holder_mc, resized the video, everything I can think of, but I can’t get the video and skin to appear in holder_mc.

Has anyone had this issue? Am I just being a total newb? It is driving me nuts :sen:

ANy help appreciated. IF you want to see what I am talking about, you can go to www.languagesystems.com/en/centers/torrancetest.asp

The swf of just the video component (TorVideo.swf) can be accessed at www.languagesystems.com/en/flash/TorVideo.swf

THANKS! THANKS! THANKS!

Ryan

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OK, after searching previous posts I found this solution:

inlcude this code after the <embed tag after the src=“http://www.site.com/your_mc.swf”: base=“http://www.site.com/”

Acutually the base= must be set to the directory where the skin.swf resides (because flash saves your video and the skin as two seperate files).

But, this only works in Firefox for me. In IE it still does not display the skin.

Further, I am now using JavaScipt objects instead of the traditional Flash embed for my Flash object because of the “Click to Activate this Object” issue in the latest versions of IE.

Any ideas how to get it to show the skin in IE?

Any ideas how to get it to show the skin in FF and/or IE when using JS instead of the traditional Flash embed?

Thanks!

Ryan