Flash :: Flash Positioning And Opera

Flash MX & Opera
Hi - I have a basic site in Flash MX that works in IE and Netscape fine but gets stuck in Opera.

The flash movie has 4 scenes - what happens is the first scene loads OK and then when you try to go to other scenes (ie home, portfolio, services, contact) it plays the scene but then goes back to the first scene and plays the first frame. Each scene has a stop(); at the end which does stop it in IE & NS but for some reason opera always jumps back to the first frame in scene 1.

Site is Flash MX with named anchors.

Any ideas?

Thanks

http://www.jafdesign.com/test/index2.htm

Flash/Opera
Hi there,

Just a quickie to see if anyone here has experienced player issues with Opera?

A client has just reported back that they coudn't view my site on their machine, using Opera - though it works fine my end???

Can anyone give it a quick spin if they;ve got Opera installed and et me know the results? Not sure if there's something that should be there in my embed tags or similar?

My url is
http://www.stylefrogcreative.com

Many thanks for your time,

Flash AS & Opera
i have problem - if .swf contains AS then Opera (ver. 6.05)
can't load this movie...
who know how solve that?

Opera With Js / Flash Com
Hello !

Is there any way to make js functions, like myFlash.TGotoLabel(..), working in Opera ?
I don't have any problem with Gecko based browser, nor IE.

Here is my flash object :
<object id="boom" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,79,0" width="1" height="1">
<param name="movie" value="sound/boom.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed name="boom" src="sound/boom.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="1" height="1"></embed>
</object>

Here is my call to it :
var oboom = window.document.boom;
oboom.TGotoLabel('_root','play');
oboom.Play();

And here is the error I got :
Error:
name: TypeError
message: Statement on line 25: Expression did not evaluate to a function object: oboom.TGotoLabel

Anybody can help me here ?

Flash 5 And Opera Browsers
I have made some changes to my site, so that the background to my flash movie is an loaded external .swf. It works with IE6, & Mozilla 1, after removing all code from the target .swf it now works in netscape 6.2 but not in Opera 6.03 (ie shows target swf without background) even with the latest plug-in. Would be a design fault, or something wrong with opera.

Flash, Php And Opera Problems
Opera will not display any variables sent from flash to to php. I've got it liking variables created in php just like is should. Every things works in ie, netscape and mozilla just fine but opera refuses to cooperate.

Has anyone else had this same problem? Is there a solution?

Opera Browser And Flash
For the fun of it, I've decided to download Opera but surprisingly when I went on my website, which is made entirely in flash 8, I couldn't access it. I tried to download the flash player but even that didn't work. However it seems tha Opera can recognise Flash 7.

Has anybody met this too and is there any solution?

Thanks

Opera 7, POST And Flash - Help.
Hi

I'm experiencing some difficulties with Opera 7.11 (win2k) retrieving data via POST into a Flash file. Works fine on Moz and IE.

The interesting thing is that I tested on another version of Opera (7.01 I think) - different PC - and it worked fine.

Could any Opera users go to my site (below) and then post here with what happens. I get stuck on my requesting content text.

Cheers in advance
James

Javascript To Flash Communication In Opera 7?
Hi, I am trying to use setVariable to send messages from JS to Flash.
I am using Opera 7 browser.

the following code works with IE but fails with Opera, it's a simple test I use to send a String to my Flash movie:

Code:
<html>
<script>
function sendMessage() {
window.document.test.SetVariable("inputVar", "hello");
}
</script>
<body bgcolor="#f800f8" text="#ffffff">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="test" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="swf/test.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#f800f8" />
<embed src="swf/test.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#f800f8" width="550" height="400" name="test" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" name="test" swLiveConnect="true"/>
</object>
<FORM>
<INPUT type="button" value="See Some Text" name="button2" onClick="javascript:sendMessage()">
</FORM>
</body>
</html>
Any idea?

Thanks in advance,
LeoBeer.

Focussing Flash Movie In Opera
does anyone have any idea how to set the flash movie in an html page to have focus in Opera?
document.getElementById["moviename"].focus(); works in IE, but not in Opera.
thanks for any help - this is holding up the entire project!

Opera Not Displaying Flash Correctly
hey, has anyone ever had problems with opera? i have a video player that is doing something weird. it's not updating the variable i have that takes into account the bytes downloaded of a netstream.

http://h108design.com/vids

the player is fine in firefox and IE. if anyone can help me out, let me know.

thanks.

Flash Slow In Firefox And Opera
hi,

i'm working on my website in flash (here). the site isn't nearly finished.
when viewing in flashplayer, everything is fine, but when viewed in firefox, some animations in the movie are very slow. the movie's frame rate is 28 fps, but when i view it in browser (Firefox or Opera), it is much slower. you can see this especially when visiting the 'resume' section (the only section with content).
in Internet Explorer is everything fine though.

could you help me please, how could i fix this?

greetings,
tamas

Full Screen Flash And Opera (mac)
Hi,

Does anyone have any idea or see what I'm seeing when I view this site using opera as a browser (mac), works fine in all others so far:

http://www.calverphoto.com/beta.html

It is the first site I've made using the stage.width scaling, I think it's something to do with that maybe???

any ideas?

Flash Remoting Cannot Connect In Opera
"Situation: When attempting to connect to a Flash Remoting service (gateway) within the Opera web browser, a connection to the gateway cannot be established by the Flash Player.

Reason: This issue is caused by a problem in how Opera and the Flash Player communicate. Currently, there is not a known workaround for this issue. At the time of this writing the current version of Opera for Windows is 7.03, Opera for Linux is 6.12, and Opera for Mac is 6.06. The current version of the Flash Player is version 6."

dixit the flash remoting center from adobe (http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_16576)

anybody knows of any update on this? the center does not seem to have any update.

Embed Your Flash For PC And MAC (firefox, Opera, E
I have a basic question. How do you put your flash movie on your web page?

I want to be able to see them with most popular browser (firefox, opera, explorer, netscape), and It should also work on an MAC.

I tryed to use javascipt swfObject http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ but it doen't work on Netscape.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Thanks
Marc

Flash Deeplinking - Opera/Netscape
Hey guys.

Ive been busy working on a deeplinking engine that can be found here:

http://www.flipvisual.com/clients/Deeplinking/

It works perfectly in Internet Explorer, Firefox and even Safari. Most deeplinking engines dont support Safari, even the system 2advanced is currently using does not, so im really pleased ive got that working. It even supports sexy urls such as http://www.flipvisual.com/clients/Deeplinking/store

Now just Opera and Netscape are remaining. Fantasy Interactives deeplinking engine supports both of these browsers, do any of you have any idea how they maybe achieving this?.

Thanks in advance
Mark

IE, Opera, Firefox - Flash Optimization
Hi,

Is there tutorial how to optimize Flash site to work same way in IE, Opera and Firefox ??
Cheers,

Flash/Opera/Javascript Conundrum
I've created an application that launches pop-up windows from links within the application using syntax of the form:

my_as_function(){getURL("javascript:alert(Hello, world');");}

That is to say, clicking on a link launches an actionscript function that in turn launches a javascript function.

This works just dandy in every browser and OS I've tried it with EXCEPT Opera.

The really weird bit is that it DOES work in Opera if I just open the file using the application. When I bung it on the server and try to access it over the internet, though, absolutely NOTHING happens. The javascript just isn't executed, even if it's something basic like an alert.

I've checked all the obvious stuff, like making sure I've got javascript enabled on the browser itself. Other users report the same problem. Any idea what might be going on?

Why Wont My Flash Site Work In Opera?
Hi, ive just discovered that my latest site dosent work in Opera, can any one help me out here? Why wont it work? and How can i fix it?
Thanks in advance
dt

Flash Compatibility With Linux Opera Browser
Hi! I've tested my site on Firefox, IE and Opera for windows and it works fine. A friend of mine has a problem opening the site with the Linux version of Opera browser. And he also told me that he can open all other flash sites. He just can't open mine. Any ideas;

thanks

DHTML Menu Appears Behind Flash In Opera 7
As seen here:
http://www.franklincity.k12.va.us/

I was able to get it working properly in IE by adding:
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />

Works fine in NS 7.1, but the cursor appears instead of the mouse arrow.

Any ideas on these issues?
Thanks,
SC

Flash 8 Plays In Firefox, Opera And Safari, But Not IE
For an extranet project, we have a few streaming videos which use FLVPlayback to call the video within the .swf file.

This works fine in FireFox, Opera and Firefox, however IE likes to "hang" and after 5 minutes the status bar shows it is still "loading." We've tried this on multiple machines with Flash Player 8 and 9, still no result.

What makes it even more interesting is that I can't access the file directly through IE: I get an IE warning which says, "IE cannot download file.swf from server. IE was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later." Which completely dumbfounds me.

We're on a secure sever (could it be a certificate issue?). Running Apache and Tomcat and I've tried the full path, (https://server/path/to/file.swf) and just the path (/path/to/file.swf) and just (file.swf) since the HTML page and swf are in the same directory. I've written this with Javascript, with HTML, and still nothing works. There are no FlashVars, nothing fancy with the <object> / <embed> code just your basic, simple flash movie call.

Am I missing something or is this just IE being its normal douche of a self? I'm not looking forward to IE7 and Vista.

Flash Video Plays In IE, But Not Safari, FireFox Or Opera.
Message Preview
Hi I really hope someone can help on this... been tearing my hair out for months!!

I've made a series of trailers available on my site (www.WorldCinemaOnline.com), and encoded them using flash video.

The issue is that i'm having problems getting these trailers to work in any other browser apart from Internet Explorer... A typical example of where the problem can be found is at: http://www.worldcinemaonline.com/fil...-Le-Monde.html

In Internet Explorer, when you press 'play' the video player fades in, begins buffering, and starts to play back as expected.

In every other browser I have tried, however, (Safari, Opera & Firefox) the video player fades in, looks like it's about to buffer - and then nothing happens.

Am I missing something really obvious here that causes the player, or my code to be incompatible with other browsers?

If anyone can help it'd be very much appreciated & there's a good few free films in there if someone manages to come up with the answer. )

Thanks!
Pierre

Flash Buttons Not Showing In Opera, Mozilla, Or Safari
Has anyone had this problem?

I have inserted "interactive Images" (useing dreamweaver). my navigation buttons show up in IE, Netscape, but not in Mozilla Opera, or Safari. all that shows up is a little black rectangle where the button should be.

I have downloaded the newest flash patch for all the browsers i have tested on and still get the same issue.

any ideas?

Remote Flash And Asp Access From Flash In Opera, Firefox
Hi All,

The real situation is that.
I have a flash and asp in same domain - domainA
I would like to use the same flash from another domains.

It works in IE in such way
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="

Bugs & Problems With Flash In Opera: Any Ideas, Suggestions, Workarounds?
Hello I am using/testing my Flash work in Opera 7.51 (the latest version) on Mac OS X 10.3.4. I also tested on IE, NN and Safari and only Opera has this problem (didn't get a chance to test on Opera on PC).
Basically I have a movie with a dynamic textbox in it that gets the variable from an external file or from URL-encoding and if I test the page in Opera the text in the Flash movie's textbox disappears everytime my mouse goes over certain links (but it doesn't happen with other links in the same page). It is not a variable problem but only an problem with the browser...
I also noticed other erratic behaviours in this browser (such as the mouse disappearing in certain areas of the screen even if a flash movie is opened in another tab window of Opera or Apple+W not working with Opera windows that contain full page flash movies). I was wondering if you have any suggestions or ideas or workarounds. Thanks.

Help Object Tag Not Working In Flash Movie Not Loading In Mozilla, Opera
http://www.bizassist.co.nz/index.html - loads ok in IE, but not mozilla, Opera, netscape. Anyone know what needs to change to make this simple little movie work in these other browsers?

The code in the page is currently the default code that dreamweaver uses to insert flash movies - see link source for code.

Opening A NEW Html Page From Flash In Opera - Simple GetURL Question
Hi!

I would like to solve the simplest problem I've ever met in Flahs, but I cannot succeed. It works in IE but not in Opera. However, I would like my webpage to work under Opera too.

I would like to open a new html page in my browser from Flash. So not embed an html page, nor use Javascript connenction or something - just make a hyperlink, as I would do in html (a href).

I write:

getURL("http://www.unideb.hu","_blank");

The IE works normally, opens the website of University of Debrecen in a new page.
While the Opera makes the following:

- opens a new window
- try to open a new webpage, but not the one I specified in the first parameter of the getURL method ("http://www.unideb.hu") - it adds the webserver name (the root directory, or what) as a prefix, and tries to open the address: "weboldalteszt.atw.hu///www.unideb.hu".
- meanwhile it shuts down the original page's Flash content, so I "lose" the original Flash page as well...

If you want, you can check it:

weboldalteszt.atw.hu
after the preloader click: "Magyar"
from the menus, choose "Linkek"
and click on the first blue "e" letter, in the first row

Normally, you should see the page: http://www.unideb.hu, as it works under IE.

Can anybody help to solve this very-very simple task - I hope I will be able to put a hyperlink on my Flash page under Opera - that shouldn't be so difficult :-)

Thanks in advance,

Alex

Flash Movie Links Do Not Respond In Internet Explorer But Do In Firefox And Opera...
Hello, everyone.

I am posting this request for help after having lighted upon an annoying issue I have been unable to solve myself. I have been toying for quite some time with the idea of producing a CSS-formatted Flash movie that would load its entire contents from either .txt or .xml files, or both, if necessary, and display them by means of the text area component. With the help of Mr Johnny Gulag of the SitePoint forums, I succeeded in introducing into it the more intricate features I had initially envisaged, so that I finally got it to look exactly as I wanted.

Then, when I tested the movie in Internet Explorer, none of the links would open when clicked; of the three context menu options (open, open in new window, copy link), only the third retained its functionality, but I very much doubt any visitor would go to such lengths as to copy the link, paste it into the address bar and thus reach the intended external web site. This was all very vexing, indeed.

I further opened the movie in question in Flash MX 2004's in-built player and everything worked all right; then in the standalone Flash Player 7, and it was fine there, too. However, after I had previously inserted the movie into an xhtml page, the links were as good as dead. I tried inserting it using both the standard (though W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict invalid) Macromedia Dreamweaver 2004 method and the Flash Satay method, but to no avail: no links opened. There, I thought, must be something else at the bottom of it.

It occurred to me that I had not tested it in browsers other than Internet Explorer: once opened in Mozilla Firefox and Opera it functioned properly, and also in Netscape while using the Firefox rendering engine (but, as was to be expected, not while behaving like Internet Explorer).

I am currently all at a loss to understand this exception. The only thing I can suppose to be of importance in this case is that my instance of Internet Explorer has the Flash Player 8 beta installed, whereas all the other browsers still run the 7.0.19 version of the Flash plug-in. Could this be what is causing the links not to respond? I thought of uninstalling the version 8 beta, but decided not to, as soon there is bound to appear the version 8 proper, which I would install any way. It would be very odd indeed to think that anything one produced in Flash MX 2004 would in some respect cease to work in Flash 8...

I should be most grateful again if anyone suggested a working solution. I suppose I am not the only one to have experienced the inconvenience of this
kind...

Opera 6
Is it really Opera 6 does not support embed tags: height, pluginspace, quality, src, type and width?

I want the flash movie to work on Opera 6 and don't have the Opera browser to test the movie.

Opera
Hi All

Does anyone know where I can download the editing program Opera from?

Positioning A Pop-up In Flash
I have a site with multiple pop-ups containing information, forms,etc... right now the pop-ups come up in the exact center of the stage... but I'd like them to be in the upper right. How do I do that?

Here's what I have to bring up the pop-ups now:

on (release) {
_root.popup_pressed = 1;
_root.scrHEIGHT = 280;
_root.scroller.scroller.gotoAndStop(2);
_root.TM_title = "Horse Trails Survey";
_root.READ = 1;
_root.scroller.gotoAndPlay("s1");
}

PLS HELP POSITIONING THE FLASH MC
Hello guys!!!
Check this: http://www.inwww.ltd.uk/final/main_mc.html

How are the margins on your computer?
On mine in the left and in the right is about 5 milimiters with red....but on my collegues there are no red margins and the flash_mc is not all visible...(at me there are 5mm of red and on them 5mm from the flash_mc it's not visible......left and right).

How can i fix this?

Regards,

http://www.inwww.ltd.uk

Transparency In Opera?
is there any way of making a flash movie transparent in opera browser? -_-

Mozilla 1.3a & Opera 6.05
Okay, on one section of my website I have a mx compressed swf with no problems in either mozilla or opera. On another page I have a mx compressed swf that locks every time in mozilla, and locked the first time in opera, but worked after shutting the opera browser off and back on.

The swf with the problem, stops on the first frame. It loads in mozilla, runs some background animation (about 1 second) and then locks up. All buttons stop working and the animation( just text ) disappears. Except on Opera, it locks up but the text stays. It's not anytype of advanced animation or anything, very very basic.

I am opening the pages on a W2K sp3 machine all default. All browsers are set to default. I did a search here but couldn't locate any threads, any ideas? btw, works perfectly in IE6 & NN7.02.

P.S. I hate Opera , does anyone actually use this browser? If all my pages work flawlessly in IE and NN, should I even waste time on browsers that could not even exist tommorow?

Transparency In Opera
That's the problem. Using IExplorer everything is ok - transparency exist, but under Opera it's not. A part of my code:

...
PARAM -> NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent
...
EMBED -> wmode=transparent
...

What's the problem ?
How can I achieve transparency in Opera ?

Netscape 6 And Opera
In Macromedia's web site ther's a technote saying that macromedia.com does not fully support:
Netscape 6.2 and earlier (Mac and Win)
Internet Explorer 4.x and earlier (Mac and Win)
Opera (all versions and platforms)
Camino 0.7
Mozilla 1.3 (Macintosh OS X)

Is it true that there is no flash player avaiable for netscape 6.2 and earlier and opera?
I tried to download from macromedia's web site but couldn't make it.
Explanations needed, please
tnx in advance
gabi

[F8] Different Results With IE And Opera?
In my movie the cursor (dragged movieClip) slightly rotates according to where you are moving from, so If you move it from the left it slightly points to the left and if you move it from the right it slightlys moves to the right, Now when I test this Swf, it runs fine in Opera but the cursor Movement Doesn't work at all when I run it with IE could this possiby be because how I set up the code for the cursor I'm using:

Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this._parent.rotation<-1 && this._rotation<95) {
this._rotation += 21;
}
if (this._parent.rotation == 0 && this._rotation>1) {
this._rotation -= 21;
}
if (this._parent.rotation>1 && this._rotation>-55) {
this._rotation -= 19;
}
if (this._parent.rotation == 0 && this._rotation<0) {
this._rotation += 19;
}
}
None the less, im confused how a swf file can completely respond different according to which browser your using??

Thanks for your time,

Silly Monk

[CS3] Problems In FF/Opera
Hi all,

I'm needing your help since I can't find what is wrong and I've never seen this bug before.
I've done a flash movie with an action on the first frame, telling him to go to the middle of the movie and play from there on. All my problems lay in there.

In IE8, IE6, Safari and Flash Player himself, I got that action working.
Problem is: in Firefox 2(!) and Opera, the movie play since the beginning, what I didn't want him to do.

In frame 1 I have:

Code:
function pula() {
if (_currentframe == 1) {
gotoAndPlay (50);
}
else {
if (_currentframe == 2) {
prevFrame ();
}
}
}
this.onEnterFrame = pula;
And on frame 50:

Code:
function Anima() {
if (_root._currentframe>_root.destino) {
prevFrame();
} else if (_root._currentframe<_root.destino) {
nextFrame();
} else {
stop();
}
}
this.onEnterFrame = Anima;
_root.destino=61;
And so on...

It seems that FF and Opera are just ignoring the first frame action. This is really weird.

I can`t figure out whats happening, it's not a html bug, I've already tested direct links to the swf and got the same problems. All browsers and flash player are up to date.

Thanks in advance!
Erick