Re: FLASH: millions of windows & server issues

[John Dowdell]

At 12:40 PM 12/20/0,

olgatwitchy [dot] com

 wrote:

>One, when certain computers run my flash 5 movie, instead of loading the

>movie, window after window after browser window open on top of eachother

>until the computer crashes.  What causes that?  (There's no GetURL action in

>the movie!)


Sorry, I don't know of a hidden cause for that symptom presentation. How do

you do on the one-or-all-movies test: do those browsers always act the same

with all SWFs, from all servers? If not, then can we do the

one-or-all-browsers test and see if others see endless windows in their

browsers?


(If an issue is frequently discussed then we online can usually tell you

the cause just by the symptom challenge. With unusual symptoms, though,

you're back to normal troubleshooting, and the first step is to find the

core of the actual difference.)



>Two, I remember in Flash 4 there was an issue about needing to have a flash

>movie and its externally loaded variable (text file or CGI or what have you)

>on the same server-- is that still true for Flash 5?


Yes, if you're loading text or XML data, then this needs to come from the

same server as the SWF. (The larger Shockwave Player can pull from odd

servers, but like Java it shows a little warning dialog first.)


jd







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