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Where is the Flash Element in Dreamweaver CS3?

I was looking for the Flash Element in Dreamweaver CS3 yesterday. For DW 8 and before users, the Flash Element was a nice Flash object for use as a slide show in a web page. In DW CS3, the object is no longer at the object toolbar. I asked myself was the feature taken away. Fortunately, after some more digging I found it under the menu “Insert/Media/Image viewer…”. Interestingly, after I have inserted the object and selected that in the page, the “Tag” panel changed to the “Flash Element” panel and I could enter the parameters at the panel. What a relief!

~ by brianchau on July 17, 2007.

9 Responses to “Where is the Flash Element in Dreamweaver CS3?”

  1. i have been looking for it too…

    Software at Cost said this on February 21, 2008 at 7:20 pm

  2. I find this is a great tool also. But do have one problem. The slideshow appears to fill my space within Dreamweaver, but when I view it from a browser from my computer there appears to be unwanted space above, below and on the sides. Do you know how I can remove it?

    Michelle Bailey said this on March 2, 2008 at 2:08 am

  3. Michelle, the image viewer should not fill the DW space. It should be of the size according to the width and height as shown at the properties inspector. Try put in the settings if there were missing at the PI.

    brianchau said this on March 3, 2008 at 1:46 am

  4. I am creating a slideshow using the Flash viewer for my website re-desgin. Does a browser need to have Flash installed to make it work? In other words, should I include a link to download Flash if they don’t have it?

    Thanks
    Cindy

    Cindy Procter-King said this on March 18, 2008 at 10:20 pm

  5. Michelle,
    I am also having this problem. My flash player is set as 195 px by 130 px (my images are the same size). When I hit play the images are smaller than 195 x 130 space around the pictures. I have tried “no border”, “exact fit”, “resize” and can’t figure it out. HELP!!!

    Jacob said this on March 19, 2008 at 12:01 am

  6. I am running into the same issue

    Oca said this on March 27, 2008 at 8:22 pm

  7. You can try setting the bgColor at the Flash element inspector to the background color of your web page. That would make it blend in with the html page.

    brianchau said this on March 29, 2008 at 7:16 am

  8. With the background color the same as your site that eliminates the border but the image still does not fill the speced space. How do you get the images to fill the speced image viewer window?

    Mark Mayland said this on March 31, 2008 at 6:49 am

  9. No, the image won’t fill up the entire flash element viewer. There is the controls which we can hide, but there is still the padding (if that is the right word) of the viewer which cannot be set to zero.

    brianchau said this on March 31, 2008 at 10:04 am

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