Flash Site Design - Black screen (on Mac)

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Black screen (on Mac)

Chancemc

2004-06-25, 7:15 pm

Two sites I did in Flash (www.rybacki.com & www.wicpa.org) both seem to have a
black screen on Macintosh computers (with Explorer Browsers). There is nothing
but black and a scroll bar which allows you to scroll down and see the site as
intended...How do I get rid of the big black rectangle???

jolyon_russ

2004-06-27, 7:15 pm

Hi Jeff,

I think the problem stems from the JavaScript you are using to test which
plugin is installed.

Where has this JavaScript come from?

Was it generated by FlashMX 2004's built in plugin checker?

A little more information would help us help you a bit better.

Thanks.

Jolyon

Chancemc

2004-06-28, 4:14 am

Jolyon,
I copied the script from another site. I didn't realize MX had built in plug
in checks. I had little success using the similar feature in 5.0, so this time
around I wanted the window to pop up immediately if someone didn't have the
latest version. Could you elaborate on how the plug in works for MX?
Thanks,
Jeff

jolyon_russ

2004-06-28, 12:14 pm

Jeff,

When you say "I copied the script from another site" do you mean you viewed
the source and literally copied it? If so I would advise against this method of
collecting JavaScript, not always but often JavaScripts call other scripts held
on the server and unlike HTML don't always work when simple copied and pasted
into a new document.

There are however lots of very good JavaScript repositories on the web, they
will include the full code, a description of what it does and usually a
tutorial on how best to impliment them.

As for Flash's built in plugin checker, to be honest I've not used it so can't
comment either way, as far as I know it's a preference in the publish settings.
Give it a go and give us some feedback.

You'll probably want links to the JavaScript repositories I mentioned, well I
googled "JavaScript repositories" and found http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5043 on
a forum, it's a starting point for you.

Hope this all helps.

Jolyon