In the assignment instructions, I ask you to include OBJECT and EMBED tags on your index page to play your signature movie. Several of you tried this, but found that you see only the movie's background color with no content.
Here's the reason: when you re-purpose OBJECT and EMBED tags, you need to account for the location of the Shockwave files, just as you'd adjust an IMG tag to refer to a GIF or JPEG in some remote directory.
Your index pages sit one level up from your assignment2 directories. Your Shockwave files are within your assignment2 directories. Therefore on your index page the file reference in both OBJECT and EMBED tags must include the assignment2 directory. Note that this is not true of your assignment2.htm page, which is in the same directory as your Shockwave files.
Here's an example of valid code. The relevant bits are highlighted in blue:
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/
cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
WIDTH=600 HEIGHT=200>
<PARAM NAME=movie
VALUE="assignment2/yossakrai.201.swf"> <PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#999999> <EMBED
src="assignment2/yossakrai.201.swf" loop=false quality=high bgcolor=#999999 WIDTH=600 HEIGHT=200 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/
download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
You shouldn't be surprised to find similar challenges in future assignments. Multimedia work is enormously complex and you sometimes need to apply independent reasoning to understand the full context of a problem.
Some of you solved this problem on your own, others didn't. Those who asked for help did the right thing. Feel free to do so at any point.
