Flash Site Design - Peculiar flash plug in behavior...

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Peculiar flash plug in behavior...

tiger2808

2005-08-23, 4:19 am

I have some flash elements on a site that, for whatever reason, have stopped
working on my computer. I reloaded the plug in and frankly am baffled.

On my mac (dual 1.8 G5) and my Dell I experience the following:
It works on the following:
Internet Explorer on the PC
Netscape on the PC

It doesn't work on the following:
Firefox on the PC
Firefox 1.0 (rv 1.7.5) on the Mac
Safari 1.3 on the Mac
Netscape 7.2 on the Mac
IE 5.2 on the Mac

I asked a friend to check, and she gets this on her computers:
On my Mac:
Safari 2.0 - works
IE 5.2 - works
Netscape 7.1 works (will download 7.2 and see if it works)
Firefox 1.0 - works

On our PC:
Firefox 1.0.4 - works
IE 6.0 - works
Netscape 8.0 - works

If anybody wants to check, go here:
http://www.childrens-museum.net/

Would anyone have any explanation as to why it wouldn't work on my computer,
but on my friends?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

tralfaz

2005-08-23, 4:19 am

"tiger2808" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dee57j$6lb$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I have some flash elements on a site that, for whatever reason, have
>stopped
> working on my computer. I reloaded the plug in and frankly am
> baffled.

The load event cannot be trusted with Mozilla browsers. If you use
it, try doing it a different way and see if it fixes the problem.

onClipEvent (load)
{

}
tralfaz

tiger2808

2005-08-23, 4:19 am

But would it be so whacky that it would work on one Apple and not another?

I am not always in the loop regarding flash, I don't do a whole lot of it,
what would I use in place of the onClipEvent Load bit of code? Has something
better been decided upon?

Thanks!

tralfaz

2005-08-23, 4:20 am

"tiger2808" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dee8rd$ahp$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> But would it be so whacky that it would work on one Apple and not
> another?
>
> I am not always in the loop regarding flash, I don't do a whole lot
> of it,
> what would I use in place of the onClipEvent Load bit of code? Has
> something
> better been decided upon?
>
> Thanks!

It could be some OS version problem or security setting too high. It
would be something to test quickly to bypass the onLoad event just to
eliminate that as a possiblity. The onLoad event is triggered when
the movieclip is instantiated on the timeline just to set some startup
conditions. You can do the same thing in the first frame of the
movieclip by writing a single use code like this..

// first frame of movieclip
if (!this.initialized)
{
this._x = 100;
this._alpha = 50;
this.initialized = true; // block this code from repeating
}

May not fix the problem but it's worth a test.
tralfaz

tiger2808

2005-08-23, 8:08 pm

I will try the code issue in the next day...

In the last 45 days I have purchased a NetGear router... so that may raise the
spector of a securuity setting too high. Would that be a setting in the router
configuration?

Thanks.