Hi,
Sorry to do a Front-Page-Thingy for something like this but I'm desperate to the point of wanting to die.
I set this weekend aside to finish off a little bit of soulless freelance work (which makes me want to die) and to get the main bulk of a cartoon I've been toiling over for four months done.
Just as the finish line is in sight I am bludgeoned into submission by a technical problem.
Basically, for some reason when I try to play a swf. file it only opens with Flash Player 7. Because Flash Player 7 is so out-dated the swf.'s won't play properly, often giving me nothing but a blank screen.
My first idea was to re-install Flash Player 10 but the problem persisted.
Next I tried to uninstall any existing Flash Players with this download:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.
html
I downloaded the Windows version, uninstalled ALL Flash Players then RE-installed Flash Player 10.
But still, when I try to open a swf. the window is blank and Flash Player 7 is written on the top.
Weirdly, when I checked my Flash Player version here (http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/faq/)
it says that I have Flash Player version 10.0.22.87, which is the latest version.
So why then does my computer insist on opening swf.'s with Flash Player 7?
(Which, to my knowledge, has been uninstalled.)
Is there a way to FORCE Flash to recognise Flash Player 10?
I'm really sorry to do this but I'm a desperate man. Hopefully this post may also help someone else out in a similar predicament.
-Sorbitol Onasiss.
P.S: Seeing as I'm here, I'd like to take this opportunity to plug my lowest scoring cartoon so far. So dreadful was this creation considered by some that the API ads were disabled. I personally think it's a valuable contribution to the endless slew of Video Game Parodies as it contains a hidden message and a Steven Seagal reference:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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UPDATE!: I'll was going to delete this post once I got an answer but I'm getting some more views and favourites on my stupid cartoon so I'll postpone the termination of this useless news post until tomorrow (the whole world is my home).
Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing that my computer fucked up afterall!
POWER TO THE COSMOS, YOU CRAZY FUCKERS! :D
luka
Go to the folder where you installed flash (program files>adobe>adobe flash cs4>players. Run the flash player that's inside the folder so that the computer recognizes it. That should work.
sorbitol (Updated )
You are a beautiful person!
I will quickly check this out and I'll update this comment if it works!
UPDATE: =================================
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FUCK! That worked! It says Flash Player 9 instead of 10 but it's close enough! THANK YOU LUKA!! You have saved my fucking bacon! All my cartoons work and I can finish off some work I had to do (which is due for tomorrow!)
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!
YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I'll leave this post here for about an hour in case it helps someone else and then I'll delete it.)