The problem is that the QTP Flex Plugin does not support a swf embedded using the wmode=transparent / opaque attribute.
So the difference wasn't between the index.html / index.cfm...it was that the index.cfm used a wmode=transparent and the index.html tags did not. Adobe bug database: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXENT-682 (refers to http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXENT-289) --- In [email protected], "jones_a_h" <alun.huw.jo...@...> wrote: > > Trying to cleanup a niggling bug that's gone unresolved for a while. > > We are using Flex in the client and ColdFusion server on the backend. > QTP to test the clients (HTML/Javascript and Flex). > > This has been fine apart from getting QTP to recognize Flex apps hosted in an > index.cfm file...can't get it to work. If we take the same page but instead > put it in a file called index.html then QTP works fine. > > This seems to me like a QTP configuration issue regarding the file extension? > since any cf processing would be 'invisible' to the client - including QTP > itself? > > We use swfobject to place and size the embedded Flex component. > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? >

