My question is one of frustrated curiosity. No matter how closely I follow the Edge tutorials and arrange my files, I am having difficulty getting an Edge animation to play in a browser. I can get the thing to play, but I have to upload everything. Everything. For example:
I created several png files, saved them in the root folder, and then imported the images into Edge. Edge, being ever so helpful and all, created an images folder and duplicated my images there. I made sure that all the images I used in the animation were linked from that Edge-created images folder. Everything worked well in Edge. I published and copied the code from the animation_preload.js file to Dreamweaver page. (This is going to a client and being placed in a relatively-positioned div called "holder". They are using a template and already have a div called Stage that would conflict. Because they don't know computers, I really don't want to confuse them.)
When I uploaded the publish folder and index file to a server, blip, nothing played. I tried uploading the js files at the root level, even though they appear in the images folder. No luck. I tried several different guesses, including going into the animation.html file and inserting code saying "src="/publish/web/animation_edgePreload.js" (didn't work, I took it out). The only way I could get the animation to play was to upload all my png files that I had originally loaded at the root level. I then discovered that the poster image I had lovingly created did not show (although the preloader did).
So what is the use of the images folder? What is the use of publishing the files (under web)? What do I need to do in order to keep the number of folders and files to an absolute minimum instead of including all the root level js files and images (all 26 of them). Is there any way to just use the publish folder and the index file? I want to use Edge for more clients, but until I get this worked out, I'm staying mum on the possibility.
And help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Ahurani.