Flash :: Need List Of Known Issues With Browsers

Issues With Browsers
I'm working on a website that has a flash slideshow. All of the images are loaded dynamically. I have been testing the site in IE 6. It works just fine for me. However I tried testing the file on other peoples computers and images have been missing. But it seems to be random from computer to to computer. Always the same images, but some computers can see them and some can't.

Has anyone experienced this before, and if so how do I correct it.

* I would show you the site, however we are testing it on a secure network, until launch.

Sound Issues On Mac Browsers
I've got a large animation sequence that is giving very inconsistent results. It seems to happen most often on Mac IE browsers or Netscape (but has also occured on some PC's). The animation does work as designed on most machines.

The Symptom: Audio becomes unsynchronized with animations. OR Audio turns off and animation continues. OR browser completely turns off.

Has anyone had similar experiences and found any information as to what might cause this. Any help or suggestions for where I can find some info on this will be greatly appreciated.

Detection Issues With Different Browsers?
I was told my preloader wasn't detecting the version of Flash on two different browsers - has anybody had these issues? I'm on OSX with Safari and it works fine.

Here's the link to click play:

http://www.thewordslinger.org/beta.html

Any other criticisms of the game (and interface) are welcome, too -- this game would not be complete if it wasn't for flashkit.

Timing Issues With Browsers.
Hello, ive been working on a flash drum machine for some time now and am very nearly finished, but am having some issues with the timing.

The code basically consists of a Timer which reads several arrays on every tick which in turn depending on the number in the array will play a sound or not.

The problem im suffering is the timer seems to vary in speed making the drums beats lag. When testing offline this slight variation is acceptable but when i test it online the lag gets really bad and sounds terrible.

What is really strange is that when I open a drop down menu in my browser (e.g. History or bookmarks) the timing gets a lot better and more consistent when testing online.

Does anyone have any idea why this strange occurrence happens and how i can improve the performance of the timing for online? THX

Animation Issues Across Browsers
I have several tweens created using AS3 and then several tweens created just using motion tweens on the timeline. When I view my website in Firefox (latest version), about 50% of the time, the actionscript tweens will not complete the entire tween or not start altogether. On the other hand, sometimes it works flawlessly. The motion tweens created with the timeline always work in there entirety. When I view it in Safari (also latest version), the tweens work about 90% of the time, but there is a few instances where the tweens won't go all the way through their specified animation

The site is here.

Anybody have any idea why this is happening? Using CS3 with AS3

AS3.0: Timer Issues With Browsers
So I have this Timer who's interval is set to 10ms. This works as it expected when you are running just the swf locally. However when I run this via FF or IE, it runs considerably slower. Nearly 3 times as slow. The fla is set to 24fps but I thought timers ran independently of the frame rate.

So I am curious to know if there are any options I can use to get the browser working more like the stand alone swf. Below is some of the code that is sprinkled around the Model class:

ActionScript Code:
protected var _scoreboardTimerInterval:Number = 10;

_scoreboardTimer = new Timer(_scoreboardTimerInterval);
_scoreboardTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, increaseScoreboardTime);

protected function increaseScoreboardTime (evt:TimerEvent):void {
timeElapsed += _scoreboardIncreaseIncrement;
timeTotal += _scoreboardIncreaseIncrement;
}

Text.CSS Issues Across Browsers
Hi Flashers,

I'm having a helluva time trying to figure out what the v7 Flash Player is thinking between Firefox and IE.

I have a dynamic multi-line HTML text box that I apply an external simple CSS file to for styling. The text actually comes from an XML file. It works just fine in the IE player. Firefox shows the raw HTML without any formatting.

Has anyone ever seen this or dealt with it?

Another issue that's different across the two browsers: There are times when I must super-reload (CTRL+Refresh/Reload) to get the player to retrieve the external CSS and XML files properly.

The files can be found at this URL:

http://onesandzeros.biz/flash/

musicsample.html
The HTML for the Flash I'm working on.
musicsample.fla
The Flash I'm working

Thank you in advance to anyone who has a comment on this topic.

Andy

(Flash MX Or 8) List/List Component Issues
Hello all.

I recently completed Kirupa's "Creating a Listbox" tutorial, (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/listbox.htm) but have been having a difficult time modifying the event attributes of each list item. Basically, I want to click on an item and have an object on the stage move to a unique xy coordinate. I can get the object to move already (object._x = object._x +10, but unfortunately ALL items on the list execute this script command. I've tried fooling around with the code to get each item to do a unique movement but...well, clearly I haven't succeeded yet.

I'm a Flash nooby and help in the form of specifics would be greatly appreciated. If you can provided modified code from the tutorial to move an object to a unique positions that's even better.

Thanks.

David

Issues With Flvs Playing In Browsers
I've never had any problems with this until using flash CS3. (And I've already tried saving as a Flash 8 doc.)

When I used to import a video into flash, I would go through all the normal steps, publish the file, and end up with a .swf, .flv. , a skin.swf, and and .html file of course.

Now, I also end up with a AC_RunActiveContent.js file.

OK, that was no problem on my computer, everything still seemed to work fine, and I could watch the video on a browser when my file was located on my hard drive.

The problem came when I upload the files to the server. I did it just like I always did, and included the .js file. When I check out my page in safari, the video would not show up. I check the activity log and saw the link of the flv, and 'not found' next to it. I double checked and I can see the flv on the server, everything is spelled correctly.

So basically in re-cap, it works fine when on my hard drive, but when I put it on a server, I can't see anything.

thanks

AS3 Mouse Wheel Issues In Mac Browsers
Could somebody tell me what it takes to get a Flash object in a Mac web browser to respond to mouse wheel events? As far as I can tell, SWFObject isn't the answer.

EDIT: Sorry, that was kind of vague. I'll explain:

I've got a program that's meant to use the scroll wheel available on some (most?) mice. I've gotten it to work in the standalone Player, but I can't get it to work in my browser, and I'm on a Mac. What do I need to do so that the Flash instance will receive mouse wheel events?

Sorting List Issues
Why do i get

"1061: Call to a possibly undefined method sortItemsBy through a reference with static type fl.controls:List."

when trying to sort a list component:

ActionScript Code:
titleDropDown.sortItemsBy("label", "ASC");

what am i doing wrong?

any help wud be awsome, thnx.

Having Issues With The List Component
From Flash Media Server I am gathering a list of video's that are available to stream sent to my Flex 2 application. I then take the response (the list) and trace to make sure that it's there:

Code:
// if i don't access the "name" property, I don't see anything
trace(response[0].name);
I then loop through the array, and add it to an ArrayCollection (it seems redundant extracting and array and adding it to an array again):

Code:
var i:int;
for (i=0; i<response.length; i++)
{
responderArray.addItem(response[i].name);
}
Then I trace the new array to verify that it contains the right information, and attempt to use it as a dataProvider for myList:

Code:
trace(responderArray);
myList.dataProvider(responderArray);
It just plain ol' doesn't work. I can't seem to add the information contained in my array (either the original response array, or my newly formed ArrayCollection) to add to myList component.

The Flex error that I keep getting in debug is:
"TypeError: Error #1006: value is not a function."

This just doesn't make sense to me... I would VERY much appreciate some help with this!

Ns & List Component Issues
Hello all,
I'm populating a list component using an xml file. The list is fully populated and the data is there. But when I use ns.play to play the videos selected it does not work. But the funny thing is that it works if I use flvplayback.

code:
Code:

//XML
//Creates an xml object
var vlist:XML = new XML();

var XML_URL:String = "videos.xml";
var vlistURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(XML_URL);
var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(vlistURL);
myLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded);
function xmlLoaded(evtObj:Event) {
vlist = XML(evtObj.target.data)

//loop through all the items in the xml
for (var i=0; i<vlist.video.length(); i++) {
//add them to list component.
videoList.addItem({label:vlist.video[i].@desc, data:vlist.video[i].@url});

}

ns.play(videoList.getItemAt(0).data);

videoList.selectedIndex=0;

}

// Create a eventlistener object (generic object)
var vidList:Object = new Object();

function changeHandler(event:Event):void {
// obtaines url of the currently selected item.
ns.play(videoList.getItemAt(videoList.selectedIndex).data);
}

//Registers listener object to recieve events from our video list component.
videoList.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, changeHandler);

Skinning V2 Component Issues - List?
I just need to make some quick color edits to the list box component, but I'm having problems.

1. I read this article on skinning: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/artic ... print.html

2. I tried to make simple edits to the StandardComponents.fla, but the changes aren't showing up in my components even though the components in the library update.

It seems like I'm missing a step or two.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks.

- mang

Load Xml Data(list Of Names), Use List As Buttons In Flash Possible?
Hi, basically I have a quiz game that I made, the quiz is done but I want to keep track of how many times a person has failed the quiz. I have an XML file that has a list of names. I want to take those names, put them in a quiz game (at the beginning) as a "list" of some sort and let the user be able to choose their own name (which is of course already in the XML file). This name will be used to keep track of how many times they have tried the quiz.

I have successfully loaded the XML file (names) into an ARRAY in Flash but how can I output them to the screen AND let the user be able to choose those from the list? as a button? This will add the count after they clicked their name to +1 and then save it to somewhere(where is best?). I will attach the zipped files (there are 4, the fla,swf,2 XML files[quiz/names]). If anyone can help me ASAP it would be awesome.

Chnage The Font Of Selected Item Color In A List Mx:List
Hi,am Trying to change the font (bold and color) of a selcted item in List..But it is changing the complete list's font..

Here it is my code..
<mx:List id="businessFunctions" left="10" right="10" bottom="10" top="208"
dataProvider="{processList}"
itemClick="select();"
horizontalScrollPolicy="auto"
labelField="@name"/>

ActionScript COde:
private function select():void
{
businessFunctions.setStyle("textSelectedColor","#D 3E9F5");
businessFunctions.setStyle("fontWeight","bold");

var page:XML = businessFunctions.selectedItem.page[0];
var pageID:String = page.@id;
var processID:String = businessFunctions.selectedItem.@id;

server.submit(pageID, processID, RequestMessage.BEGIN);
}

Here i need toc hange the selected item color only..

Separate The List Items With The Separator And List Is Dynamic
Hi,
I am getting the list items dynamically ,and hv to draw a separator after the every group of list items.For this I have to embed a script function after every group.How can i do this Actionscrip 3.0 Any help?

Ex:

Group 1:

ABC
DEF
GHI

TODO-----Here we need to draw a line
Group 2:

123
456
789

TODO-----Here we need to draw a line
Group 3:

abc
def
ghi

Here I have da code:

for each(var group:XML in event.responseMessage.rawXML.group)
{
var pageSection:PageSection = new PageSection();

pageSection.text = group.@name;
pageContents.addChild(pageSection);
trace("***********Group Name: "+group.@name);

// once the section has been added, iterate through it's children and render each field.
// for each(var field:XML in server.currentPage..field)
for each(var field:XML in group.field)
{
var formElement:FormElement = AppCode.FieldRenderer.renderField(field, pageSection);
/* check for null, if for some reason we encounter an unknown control type
* the formElement will not be instantiated so we should skip over it.
*/
if(formElement != null)
{
/* formElement.field = field;
pageSection.addChild(formElement); */

formElement.setRuleDetails = this;
formElement.communicator = this.communicator;

if(event.responseMessage.pageType == PageType.UPDATE || event.responseMessage.pageType == PageType.ADD )
formElement.readOnly = false;

fieldList.push(formElement);
}

}
//Add Separator b/n groups

TODO...Here we need to call a function which draws a line.....}

Plz help me if u have any idea?

Debug > List Objects + List Variables ...
I am testing my flash movie within the flash application. I go up to the toolbar while testing and select 'Debug > List Variables' and then 'Debug > List Objects'. This displays all the variables and all the objects in the trace window. Fairly straight forward!

What I want to do is access these variables and objects at runtime while viewing my flash movie within the browser. So I can make a text field in my movie and populate it with these variables and objects BUT how do I access these from the flash movie ? There must be a way to get the output from 'Debug > List Variables' and 'Debug > List Objects' at runtime and dump it all into a text field on screen.

Can anyone assist please,
Thanks,
Stephen.

Converting Bulleted List To Numbered List
I'm trying to put out a list of questions for a test. I'm also using a stylesheet to format the way the text is displayed. This is the way the list should look like:

1. question#1 text.............................................. ......

2. question#2 text.............................................. ......

If more than one line of text per question, it continue on the next line indented. The text for each question needs to be looking like a block of text. The same way a bulleted list displays.

This format can be created by using the <ol>, <li> tags in HTML. But Flash doesn't recognize any style formats for the <li> tag. Only a bulleted list is printed out. How can I format that list into a numbered list? or if not how can I create the same output, keeping in mind that I have to use a stylesheet? Thanks.

List Component. Help. Looked Everywhere. Button And List.
Trying to use a list component and a button. When user selects something from list component and clicks button it takes them to new page, if user doesnt select something from list and hits button, (this is where my question lies) I want it to do nothing and setFocus to list component.

Here is how I am going about it now: New if statement (however it still transfers user if nothing is selected from list component) How can I get it to not transfer? I have tried rewritting this many ways, searched all over the nets, and Nada.

Code:
var arUrl:Array=["/browsecategory.aspx?cat=1","/browsecategory.aspx?cat=2","/browsecategory.aspx?cat=3","/browsecategory.aspx?cat=4"];

var provider:Array=[{label:"Option 1",data:0},{label:"Option 2",data:1},{label:"Option 3",data:2},{label:"Option 4",data:3} ];

mcList.dataProvider=provider;
var obj:Object={};
obj.click=function(eo:Object)
{
var count:Number=mcList.selectedItem.data;
getURL(arUrl[count],"_blank");
trace("count="+arUrl[count]);
}
but.mcSubmit.addEventListener("click",obj);/////here is where I am sending off
if(mcList.selectedIndex == undefined) {
setFocus.mcList;
}
So this thing works perfectly, however if user hasnt selected anything how can I get it to not transfer and setFocus?

I have tried setting if to check it for - 1 (since starts at 0) set to 0? Any ideas please help. Thanks in advance MT

'list' Event Of List Component
oops i mean 'change' event of list component

Hi guys/gals. Ive made an xml/list component driven mp3 player as can be viewed at http://www.flashmatics.co.uk/blog/sa...mp3player.html

When someone selects a new song from the list that songs starts to play. Everything is working fine.

I now want to add an extra bit of functionality i.e When one song finishes i want the next song to start playing. But this means I have to tell the list component that a change has occured as well (even though there has been no user interaction to cause this 'change'). How would I go about this. Here is a snippet of relevant code.

Code:
mySound.onSoundComplete = function():Void{

//from here i need to tell the component a change has occured and to move it
//to the next song in the menu
}

//create a listener for the list component
var compListener:Object = new Object();
list_comp.addEventListener("change", compListener);

compListener.change = function(info:Object):Void{
//how do i get this to move to the next track?
}
Thanks for any help in advance. I dont actually need the whole code or anything but rather a point in the right direction..cheers

HELP Symbols List To Text List?
Is there a way to get a list of all the symbols in the library into a text file quickly and easily?
Thanks in advance!
-Ted

Loading XML List Into RMP List Component
I have several XML lists to load into a RMP List Component List Box.
I was told the code should be like:

myButton.onRelease=function(){
myList.load(String(search.text));
}

So I made a button and named the instance "myButton"
Add the list component called "myList"
The XML files are named test1.xml, test2.xml etc.

I tried variations of:

myButton.onRelease=function(){
myList.load(String(test1.xml));
}

Result....

Nota

I think I may need a Listener or I am not sure...
Can anybody please advise me what I am doing incorrectly?

Different Browsers
help needed!

Does enyone know someting about using flash in diffrernt browsers. I made a menu that works well in explorer but not at all in netscape 4.7 Can anyone write me some lines about this?

Thans a bunch for helping!

/marcus

New Browsers?
hey peeps...

just wondering if you can help me with another one of my problems...

i've got my site, (thats a full flash site apart from the index page), that i'm updating at the mo, and the index page which loads has the usual flash check button, and site requirements, etc, and also the continue button if you've got flash already...right? Well, my question is...

...when someone clicks on the continue button to actually enter my site, how can i make it so that my sites opening flash movie opens up in a window that is the same size as the movie size i've created...?

I check out all these cool sites on these boards, and some sites when you click 'continue' open up into small windows, rather than opening up a new browser to fill the screen, (kinda like a pop up window)...you know what i mean???

hope you can help!!!

Browsers?
I created a banner for a client without taking into consideration compadability. It's a 6k swf file that will be embedded into a html page of course.

Do most of the browsers today have the ability to open swf's like IE?

I don't want to convert this thing to a GIF...

Let me know.

Different Browsers
My webpage (created in flash mx 2004) looks correct in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari, but in Netscape some of the images are cut off (even if they're in the middle of the page) and items that are moved to the side off of the stage show up.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem and have the movie/webpage work consistently in all browsers?
Thanks!

FSCommand Ok For Most OS & Browsers?
I'd like to take advantage of communicating between
my movies & javascript via fscommand but not unless it
works in at least 90% of the what users have out there. I seem to remember hearing it does not work on Apple? If it works on IE/Netscape 4.0 and above and both Apple/Windows then I should be reaching most of the audience. Just wanted to be sure before I commit to using it and has anyone
experienced problems on platforms that it should have worked on?
Thanks!!

Different Colors In Different Browsers
My flash shows up the correct color in IE but in netscape it is white. check out http://www.sundanceresort.com/newsite/test
the fla is available at http://www.sundanceresort.com/newsit...h/netscape.fla

Flash 6 And Browsers
Does anyone no an estimate of what percent of people have flash 6 player or a place to go to read about it?
Thanks,
Nina

Optimizing In Different Browsers
Hi i'm about to launch a new website in html (unfortunately), but I need to optimize it in lots of different versions of explore and netscape. How do you do that best? Any good solutions?

Thomas
Denmark

Browsers And Flash
Hi there

I'm at college learning how to use Flash. I was wondering something. I've noticed that you can drag and drop SWF files into a browser (I'ver tried this in netscape 7 and IE5.5) and it displays the whole movie, full screen.

My question is does this work on all browsers and if not which ones does it work with and what versions?

Any help would be greatly apperviated.

All the best

Steve

Fullscreen In Browsers
I'm need help for creating an swf that goes full screen in a web browser like those when u use fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); for a projector...
any tip will be useful and greatly appreciated...

btw I use dreamweaver to link the swf in to the html...

thanks once again =)

Need People To See This Through Different Browsers Please
Hi all,

I just finished this page not too long ago, but I just saw it throught netscape as oposed to ie (for which I made it) and it looks all messed up. Can somebody look at it with other browsers such as aol, and tell me if it's messed up too.

the pages are supposed to load in the middle through an iframe, but in netscape is popping a new page everytime a button is clicked.

what do you see?
thanks

www.angelaalen.com

Mac Browsers Cant See Swf File
hi,

i am testing my site and all pc users can see it fine. i only have one mac user testing with the following config:

osx 10.3.3
safari 1.2.1
explorer 5.2
flash Version: is 7,0,19,0

the mac browsers load the html page (the background colour is displayed) but not the swf. the publish settings are set to flash player 6, actionscript 2, no compression. the mac user can view the file as a mac projector file. i have also tried an absolute path to the swf in the html file. i am using flash mx 2004 on a pc to author the file. there is no loadMovie or fscommand syntax in the actionscript.

i would be grateful for feedback from any mac users who can / cant view it. url is www.lukem.co.uk

any ideas what the problem could be?

thanks,

luke.

Scaling In All Browsers Same
How should I handle script in flash or exported html do scale movie, everytime loaded to browser window, the same and without boarders (I mean just the stage).(any browser [Mozilla, Opera])
Thanx for reply. Only think to handle to launch my site

Ban Crappy Browsers? : D
Can I detect different browsers in flash, and possibly redirect the ones I dislike to a "go away page" ?

Resize Browsers
I have created a site in 800x600 but want the site to resize when someone comes on with a higher resolution automatically. Does anyone have any code that i can use?

Diference In Browsers
Hi, check this out!!!
If you load this site with IExplorer it looks fine a swf with a red frame aroundit, wich is in the .html. Thats good!
now, if you use any other browser it shows the grid I used in front page to center the swf, and in white! That's bad!

http://www.euzkadi1.monicascoffee.com/intro.html

How can I make it look like in the Explorer in the rest of the browsers?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Problem With Web Browsers
hi,

I created a website www.broadwaythelyricist.com and since i use firefox i thought everything was fine. Little did i know that internet explorer has problems running the site, it gets stuck on the preloader and then. when you do get into the site by refresing the page the imported dynamic text on the news and on the bio sections do not load up.

Firefox runs the site perfectly. everything loads properly and the text gets loaded into the site with no problems.

Why isnt the site working on internet explorer. Would someone please help me.

thanx in advanced.

-skyracer-
www.skyteckstudio.com

Flash MX And Different Browsers
Is there anything I need to know about implementing Flash into my website in regards to different browsers? Do some browsers not like actionscript or something along those lines? I just wanted to know before I really get rolling on adding a bunch of Flash to my site.

Thanks for the help!

XML Crashing All MAC Browsers
I have made an attempt to make an online store with flash. the minute you enter the section that the flash is trying to communicate with XML and sends and receives data all MAC browsers crash (IE, Safari and even Firefox). On pc when I get to that part a little window pops up, the window's title is: Macromedia Flash Player Setting and it says: " nimany.com is attempting to read from www.nimany.com. This is a potentially insecure operation. Do you want to allow it?" and once i hit allow everything is OK only on PC.

Since mac doesn't show this alert, instead it just crashes!!!! any idea? why

this is the link: http://nimany.com/nima.php

Is Anyone Else Having Trouble With Web Browsers?
Hi guys, I am desperate for some help any advice much appreciated! I would be
interested to hear if anyone else has had this problem and how they solved it?
I am working in MX pro 2004 and Learning Action Script and behaviours and have
created a moving character based on these bits of code.

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
_root.sprite._x += 10;
}
(and so on for the up, right and left)

onClipEvent (keyDown) {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.DOWN) {
_root.sprite.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.sprite.down.play();
}
(and so on for the up, right and left)

onClipEvent (keyUp) {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.DOWN) {
_root.sprite.down.stop();
}

Now when I publish it and view it through a browser the character "locks" she doesn't
move properly or play the correct walking animations for each key press until I click
on her! Runs fine as far as I can see when I test the movie or play it through the flash
player, but really wanted it to be eventually uploaded onto the web.

Thanks in advance

NO Text In Certain Browsers
http://www.pandadrinks.com

The text by the panda paws on the menu and the mail page does not show in all browsers

Not showing in
most linux browsers and
opera

Does any one know why ?

Thanks

[F8] Browsers And Framerate
I have a love .swf with two pieces of imported music. Frames-per-second is set to 36 and built it to time out nearly perfectly - when the .swf is viewed alone. In publish preview or just clicking the file on a desktop, it's perfect. But as soon as the player is in an html page and viewed through a browser, either firefox or IE, the fps slows (I assume) and the music finishes much sooner than the animation.

This is not being downloaded, it's still viewing a local file straight from the desktop.

So question time:
Do the browsers impose a different fps or do they just slow the player down or what?

If there is no way around that, is there a way to guesstimate the true fps or is the timeline now pretty much useless?

Resizing For Different Browsers
Hi,

I recently put this website up on the internet;

http://electrode.org.uk/

but unfortunately have discovered it looks a bit wrong on some computers (mostly PCs, I made it on a mac). It seems some monitors don't have a high enough resolution (I think?) to view the whole thing, and so the viewer must scroll down to see everything.

If I change the html publish settings to scale "exact fit" in flash, will this solve the problem, and would I only need to do this for the parent swf, or for all externally loaded swfs as well.

Many thanks,