Trouble Loading Flash Movie Using Internet Explorer

MS Internet Explorer Trouble
I finished my website, but I'm having a hard time figuring out why it doesn't work in Internet Explorer on PC. It works in every other browser on both Mac and Windows platform, but not Internet Explorer on PC. For my portfolio section, I'm using scotty's excellent V3_with_thumbs (see: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87388 ). When the page loads in Explorer, the thumbs won't load, and the page is very buggy. Does anyone have any experience troubleshooting this kind of thing? I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong and why it works so well in every other browser. I work in Tokyo, and most people here use the default Explorer browser option on their PC, so I need to make this work to show them my work. I greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer, thank you!

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Flash .swf File Not Loading In Internet Explorer
Hoping that someone can help me!

My portfolio site is at http://sngportfolio.firstcircledesign.com and when you enter the site and click on the print button (url is http://sngportfolio.firstcircledesign.com/printport.htm) the initial movie runs but when you click to view, the printport.swf file doesn't play. it's as though it won't link to the internal swf files that make it up.

it works fine on mozilla.

help and many thanks.

bvisuze

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Flash Not Loading Correctly In Internet Explorer...
The site loads perfectly for firefox, but just displays a white box for IE:

Can anyone please advise me on how to fix this? Thank you in advance for your replies.

Update: I found the problem .

Moderators feel free to delete this post.

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Problem Loading Sounds When Playing Flash Film In Internet Explorer
I'm trying to create a cd with some flash movies, that load their contents dynamically and when i run my files in the flashplayer everything works fine, including the sounds that are loaded to play, but if i try to open my swfs in internet explorer or another browser, the sounds are not even loaded, as well as some text contents. can anyone help please? this files are to work from the cd and not through some internet server.

Thanks

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Flash Movie Is A Hyperlink In Internet Explorer?
I don't know why but I included a Flash movie in my XML site and in Firefox it appears normally, but in IE it is a hyperlink and does nothing when clicked. Anyone?? Here is my code:

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" CODEBASE="

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Flash Movie Not Showing On Internet Explorer
I had a problem that my drop down menu's were hidden behind my flash movie.

I had to change the way the flash was embedded to sort this out.

Following this change, the flash movie does not appear on my website, it is empty.

This is the change I made was:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="xxx.swf" height="150"
width="764">
   <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
   <param name="quality" value="best">
   <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
   <param name="movie" value="xxx.swf" />
</object>

from

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
width="764" height="150" id="xxx-banner" align="top">
   <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
   <param name="movie" value="bbpp.swf" />
   <param name="quality" value="high" />
   <param name="scale" value="noscale" />
   <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />  <embed src="xxx.swf"
quality="high" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="764"
height="150" name="xxx-banner" align="top"
allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

A great solution for anyone else facing this problem.  It works fine on firefox, but as I say the movie does not show at all on I.E.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

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Help Needed In Scaling Flash Movie In Internet Explorer
Hi guys....
hope all r doing fine....can someone pls help me with this....what i need basically is i want my flash banner in the browser to be resized according to the browser width....i have published that banner and the resulting published HTML file from flash works out just fine....but the problem i am facing is that i want to insert that resizable flash to an existing HTML page....but when i copy that flash file from the published HTML page to the html file where i want the flash banner to be displayed.....it does not work.....can someone pls suggest me what the problem might be......thanks in advance....

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[F8] Instability Of Internet Explorer When Flash Movie Loads Files Externally
Hello,

I ran into a weird problem, and I was wondering if anyone else had the same problem.

Here is the scenario: You have a web page, in pure html or flash, and there is a link on this page to another page that pops up in a new window, contains a Flash movie and loads some files externally. For example, the first page can be a gallery of thumbnails of some images, and the second page can be a Flash movie that displays a slideshow of the images that you selected on the first page.

Here is the problem I'm having: If you are using Internet Explorer (v6 or v7, does not matter), and if you close the second page before the external files load into the Flash movie, and if you repeat that a number of times, Internet Explorer starts not loading the second page at all. It just keeps loading forever and ever. Furthermore, the first page won't refresh, either. You have to close the windows and start all over again to reset Internet Explorer. I'm having this problem only with Internet Explorer. Firefox and Safari work fine.

Example: If you want to see an example case, here is a commercial website where you can experiment yourself. Go to:
http://www.kohls.com/products/produc...17952 5087468
(If that link does not work anymore, just chose any women's wear at www.kohls.com)
click the "Zoom Feature" button.
A second window will popup and a flash movie will do some external file loading. The movie will say "Please wait" while loading the external files. If your connection is very fast and the first file loads before you even see the "Please wait", try zooming into the picture and forcing the Flash movie to load the bigger image. When you see the "Please wait" message, close the window immediately. Do this several times, and after a while you will see that the second page will start not working. It will load and load and load...

I don't know if it matters, but here are some details about hat I am doing: In my case I'm using a MovieClipLoader to load the external files. I'm loading several external files, and I'm doing so sequentially. I am constrained to open the second page in a new window, because my first page is also in flash, and I don't want the first movie to reset. I use getURL with javascript to open, resize, and center the popup window. And I pass some variables to the second movie. Even if the first page is in html, and I don't pass any variables, I run into the same problem.

This is really annoying, because it limits the usage of the external file loading capabilities of Flash.

Did anybody else run into this problem? This looks like an Explorer problem more than a Flash problem, but is there a way to avoid it? Something you can do in the ActionScript?

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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...

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Internet Explorer And Flash - Freakin Explorer Bar
Okay, I'm pretty new at with Flash, and the whole actionscript/xml/xhtml stuff. When I upload my .swf to the web, I always get that explorer bar dropping bombs everytime I open the page. And I get it on just about every computer. Is there a special embed tag or some trick I'm missing to make that thing go away. Also, why do some sites automatically focus and others not. How do I do that?

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Loading Swf Problem In Internet Explorer
I am having a problem with seeing my swf in Internet Explorer. It doesn't show the preloader or anything. It shows the swf in other browsers. Here is the swf. The swf is up the top of the web page just below the title. Thanks in advance.

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Video No Loading In Old Internet Explorer Browser
Hi,

I'm using this code and the mp4 video is no loading in old internet explorer browser

var NewCtn = new NetConnection();
NewCtn.connect(null);
var NewSt = new NetStream(NewCtn);
videoHolder.attachVideo(NewSt);
NewSt.setBufferTime(0);
NewSt.play("TEST_MP4.mp4");
NewSt.onStatus = function (info)
{
if (info.code == "NetStream.Play.Stop")
{
NewSt.seek(0);
}
};

any ideas?

thanks

Alex

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Using GetURL() In Internet Explorer - Loading Issues
We have encountered a problem where calling javascript from flash using getURL() interferes with page loading in IE.
A flash nav which triggers DHTML menus using the above method seems to halt the page load if the user tiggers the menu again while the current page is loading.

No issues in Moz pc/mac and safari.

We would try using an FSCommand approach, but we want to include safari users..

Any ideas? Thanks in advancde if you have any

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Internet Explorer Not Loading External Html
I have an FLV player with an HTML playlist. The links on the playlist use the <a href=asfunction tag to call the video to play. When I first tried it, it wouldn?t load in IE or Firefox. I found that I can?t just call the file from the root folder, I needed to point directly to the file, as in C:Flashimages1.flv After doing that it loads fine in Firefox. Internet Explorer still doesn?t want to cooperate. Maybe because it sucks. It won?t even load the first video right off the bat. Anyway, I would post my code, but I?m at a different computer right now. Any ideas?

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Movie Display In Internet Explorer
Hi Everyone!

I'm new to this forum, but have a little experience with Flash. I'm building a site, mixing flash with css and html on a webpage (obviously). When I test the pages in Internet Explorer, the display jumps around quite a bit when I navigate between web pages (looks fine when clicking through frames in the movies). This is the first time I've ever seen this (in the few times I've built flash-heavy sites) and this display issue doesn't happen in Firefox, Opera or even old Netscape. Unfortunately - most of the world is using IE, so I need a little help.

I thought perhaps the Flash Satay solution might be the answer, but I'm not a handy programmer so before I go mucking around with it, I thought I'd get some thoughts from other flash users...

Here's the link: mustardseedwoodworking.com/testing The pages in question (and the only ones that are working, really) are the home page, the about page, and then galleries one and two.

(Oh finally, I'm viewing these pages both locally, on my computer and online after being uploaded. I have cable internet access. I realize Gallery 2 loads a bit more slowly than Gallery 1, but the primary reason I'm using flash to display the tables is because I want large, high rez photos. )

Thanks in advance!
Michelle





























Edited: 09/21/2007 at 06:24:00 AM by pisceswind

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Monitoring Load Movie In Internet Explorer ...
Hi,
Does anyone know if you can monitor .swf's that are loaded into a .swf in internet explorer?
E.g. you can see the status bar loading the main flash interface, but if another .swf is loaded into the interface using load movie, can you monitor its download progress in IE?
Any ideas would be great
Thanks
Tim

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Load Movie Not Working In Internet Explorer
Strange, the movie works fine in flash but when I test it in the html page made in dreamweaver the load movie button doesn't work at all

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Movie Not Loaded Error In Internet Explorer
Well, the title about sums it up. I have a flash movie embedded into my website @

http://www.roundtopriders.com/index.php?id=team

This page displays perfectly when viewed in Firefox, but when i try to look at it in Internet Explorer, nothing loads and i see a "movie not loaded" when i right click on the location where the movie should be.

I have a page that was generated when i Published my video. This can be found @

http://www.roundtopriders.com/PHP/fade.html

This page will work on both browsers.

I appreciate your help!

Thanks in advance,

Jason Wagner
www.RoundtopRiders.com

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Problems With Multiple Movie Clips And Internet Explorer
Hi,

I'm working on quite a complex app in flash which requires the concurrent loading of multiple (up to 30 or 40) movie clips at the same time.  I've come across an interesting problem with Internet Explorer.  When the flash movie is served from a web server (in this case IIS) to Internet Explorer, a number of movie clips simply do not load on the screen.  However, if you then refresh the page once or twice, all the clips miraculously load.

This *does not happen in Mozilla*; it works perfectly, first time, off the same server.  It also does not happen when I drag the flash movie on to the internet explorer browser from my hard drive, only when it is served from a web server!

This has led me to wonder if it is a problem with the amount of connections to the net internet explorer/flash can have open at any one time, and that maybe flash is timing out some of the movie clips.  This would make sense as it would explain why it does work when loading from hard drive and why it works after several refreshes (as the browser would have cached several of the files, requiring less connections to the internet).

With that in mind, I have researched upping the number of connectione IE can make to the internet, and found an MS knowledge base article detailing how to up the number of possible connections by editing the registry.  However, even having upped it to 20 and having restarted my computer, it appears to make no difference whatsoever!

I am now at a loss and am appealling to anyone on this forum who may have an idea for help.

Regards,
Ben

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Why Does This Simple Movie Run So Slow In Internet Explorer But Fine In Firefox
This script is used to fade a movie clips opacity to 200 (an extra 100 to add to the pause between fading in and out) and then fade it back to 0. I used intervals to create the timing. I dont know of a better way to do it. Anyway if you check out the file under hosting at thetechtree.com you will see it loads slow in IE but fine in firefox. Anyone know why?

ActionScript Code:
var aList:Array = new Array();
aList[0] = "galaxy";
aList[1] = "KOP";
aList[2] = "ramsey";
aList[3] = "sentinel";
var xPos:Number = 336;
var yPos:Number = 265;
//
var speed:Number = 1;
var onOff:Boolean = false;
function fadeIn(targ)
{
    if (_root[targ]._alpha < 200)
    {
        _root[targ]._alpha += 1;
    } else
    {
        intFadeOut = setInterval(fadeOut, speed, targ);
        clearInterval(intFadeIn);
    }
}
//
function fadeOut(targ)
{
    if (_root[targ]._alpha > 0)
    {
        _root[targ]._alpha -= 1;
    } else
    {
        clearInterval(intFadeOut);
        onOff = false;
    }
}
//
function screen(myNumber)
{
    var targ:String = aList[myNumber];
    if (_root[targ]._alpha < 100 && onOff == false)
    {
        intFadeIn = setInterval(fadeIn, speed, targ);
        onOff = true;
    }
}
//
var intFadeOut = setInterval(fadeOut, speed);
clearInterval(intFadeOut);
var intFadeIn = setInterval(fadeIn, speed);
clearInterval(intFadeIn);

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Flash In Internet Explorer
I am having trouble getting flash mx to quit breaking up when I put it in the internet explorer and use the scroll slider. The internet explorer is a 10.2.8 mac version. Any advice?

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Flash MX And Internet Explorer
Hi , I have come across something weired.I'm developing a web site in Flash MX and for every button on the Main Movie,a second movie is loaded.Everything runs fine when I test the movie in Flash MX software.But when I upload the movie and access it through IE some of the movies do not fully load e.g some of the images will be missing.And if I press the button once again that is supposed to load the movie then the movie loads.Now if I exit IE and then load IE and access the site again, I dont have the problem.But then if I delete temp internet files before exiting IE and then load IE again,I get the same problem again.Please help,thanks

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Flash And Internet Explorer
hey everyone,
I know this has popped up so many times and im sure there is a simple solution, I have searched everywhere, but the answer im looking for just isnt around.

If you have a second to glance at www.tbadventure.com/play in internet explorer (i dont think this happens in the latest internet explorer though)

If you login as a guest, all will be ok. Say you logout (press refresh) note that the login screen appears straight away without the intro. In addition, when you press login it no longer works! Whats more, open up a new internet explorer window and - the same thing happens!!

Is there any way around this. maybe non cacheing? any help much appreciated.

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Internet Explorer 7 And Flash
Why won't IE7 let me install flash player? I keep clicking 'allow active x' but it doesn't allow the installation. Help

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Flash And Internet Explorer (PC)
Hi peoples,

Im in desprate need of help here! I just finished a full flash site and placed for your comments in the showcase forum www.jamcat.co.uk Some people using PC's with an operating system earlier than XP are complaining that the buttons dont work. I originally thought this was down to the flash object embed problem with Internet Explorer but Im not too sure. Can anyone shed some light on this problem and offer a solution.

Many Thanks
Mr Bling

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Flash And Internet Explorer
Hey everybody,

I have a flash movie on a website. It works fine in Firefox, but it doesn't even load in IE. I used <object> to embed it instead of <embed> because <embed> does not validate. Is there a way to make a video play in IE and still make it validate?

Thanks

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Flash And Internet Explorer...HELP
Hi, I'm a newbie in Flash. Having problems with IE.
What is that annoying frame that is around all my flash animations on IE (says "click to activate and use this control") that visitors have to click before they can access the actual flash buttons? How do I remedy this. My friend is starting to get disappointed in the site I made. HEEELLLLPPPP!!!!

Here is a link that you can open on Internet explorer to see what I mean.

www.skellypc.com

Thanks in advance!
colr4life

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Flash Forms And Internet Explorer 6
I have a Flash form (working with CGI)that used to work in Internet Explorer 5.5. It still does work with Netscape 4.7, Netscape 6 and Opera, but not IE 6.
Have anyone had similar problem?
Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

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? Works In FLASH But NOT In Internet Explorer ?
Check out the code below. SUPER simple. Just make a dynamic text field on a blank screen and apply the label "DisplayPop" to it. Enter this script:


Code:
startPop = 6224997360;
oldTimeCode = 1021684527875;

myDate = new Date();
myTimeCode = myDate.getTime();

timePassed = myTimeCode-oldTimeCode;
newPeople = timePassed*0.00243;
population = math.round(startPop+newPeople);
popcomma = String(population);

a = length(popcomma);

s1 = popcomma.substring(a, a-3);
s2 = popcomma.substring(a-3, a-6);
s3 = popcomma.substring(a-6, a-9);
s4 = popcomma.substring(a-9, a-10);

DisplayPop = "World Population: " + (s4+","+s3+","+s2+","+s1);


BIZARRE! It works if you CTRL-ENTER in flash, but in Internet Explorer, it cuts off the last 3 digits.

What gives?

I have 3 computers and it worked in IE on only 1! (all three have same version/same sub version of IE)

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Internet Explorer Windows And Flash
Hello to everyone. Scenario: I have a flash movie in a window that uses Javascript to resize and remove the scrollbars and menu etc...
Question: If I have a link in my flash movie to a URL, how can I get that URL link to open in a NEW Internet Explorer window with all the bells and whistles. As it is right now, the URL opens in the child window and is confined to the Javascript settings. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Internet Explorer Flash Plugin
Hi, I have noticed a strange thing about the flash plugin in internet explorer.. the flash movies I've made in Flash MX is running really slow in IE but runs perfectly in the stand alone flash player and the plugin for netscape on my computer, but they also run fine in IE on some other machines I,ve tested it on.. Some flash content on other internet sites seem to run good in IE on my machine too though.. I run Windows XP but have noticed this problem on a Win 2000 platform as well.. Any ideas why..?

pleease, help me!

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Changes To How Internet Explorer Displays Flash
Microsoft are changing the way embedded content (like flash movies) works in internet explorer. In order to keep your pages displaying as they do now you need to change how you embed the flash movie into a page. Check this thread for details...

http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=497062

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Using Flash And Internet Explorer Icons
Hi Peeps!

Just a quick question.

When using the logos for Flash and Internet Explorer on the front of a website (to show people what software the site is built in, or that they will need to view it), do we have to ask permssion from Macromedia and Microsoft, or do we just use screen dumps of the logos from our desktop?

Or is there a way of getting hold of the logos from within the program files?

Please advise

Thanks Deadhands

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Get Data Into Flash In Internet Explorer
Hi all;

Im new here. And I use Flash MX 6.0.
I have a memory-game with a highscore. In this game I have a couple of variables, which are send to my mysql database via PHP.
All likewise via PHP to get the score into my highscore. All this works fine in Mozilla/firefox, but not in Internet Explorer.

First of all I send my varibles like this:
loadVariables("./save_score.php?p=" + _root.gamePoints + "&n=" + escape(txtPlayersName) + "&e=" + escape(txtPlayersEmail) + "&d=" + escape(strDate) + "&l=" + _root.gameLevel + "&t=" + _root.secondsCounter/ 1000 + "&a=" + _root.attemptsCounter,"", "GET");

And get them like this:
oadVariables("get_score1.php?count=5&" + _root.phpCounter++, "", "GET");

My get_score1.php looks like this:

<?php
// Add spaces to string
function formatString($var, $length) {
$ret = $var;
if(strlen($ret) > $length) {
$ret = substr($ret, 0, $length);
}
$n = strlen($ret);
for($i = 0; $i < strlen($ret); $i++) {
if(ord(substr($ret, $i, 1)) > 192) {
$n--; // UNICODE, count only 1x
$i++;
}
}
$n = $length - $n;
if($n > 0) {
$ret = $var.str_repeat("%20", $n);
}
return $ret;
}

// Sort function used by usort
function sortfunc($val1, $val2) {
return ($val1["p"] < $val2["p"]);
}

// Count of highscore entries
$count = 5;
if(isset($*_GET['count'])) {
$count = $_GET['count'];
}

// Header
$s1 = formatString("Points", 8);
$s2 = formatString("Navn", 27);
$s3 = formatString("E-mail", 30);
$s4 = formatString("Dato", 13);
$s5 = formatString("Tid/S", 8);
$s6 = formatString("Level", 7);
$s7 = formatString("Forsoeg", 8);
$score = $s1.$s2.$s3.$s4.$s5.$s6.$s7.chr(10);

$databaseuser = "atj";
$databasepassword = "anders";
$databasename = "memory";
$databaseserver = "localhost";

//Connect to db
$dblink = mysql_connect($databaseserver,$databaseuser,$datab asepassword)
or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($databasename)
or die(mysql_error());

$sql = "SELECT * FROM highscore ORDER BY point DESC;";
$result =mysql_query ($sql) or die ("Fejl i select");
$i=0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$arrarr{$i} = array("p" => $row['point'], "n" => $row['navn'], "e" => $row['email'], "d" => $row['dato'], "l" => $row['level'], "t" => $row['tid'], "a" => $row['forsog']);
$i++;
}

// Sort the array
usort($arrarr, "sortfunc");

// Print the array
$i = 1;
while(list($id, $val) = each($arrarr)) {
if($i > $count) {
break;
}
$s1 = formatString($arrarr{$id}{"p"}, 8);
$s2 = formatString($arrarr{$id}{"n"}, 27);
$s3 = formatString($arrarr{$id}{"e"}, 30);
$s4 = formatString($arrarr{$id}{"d"}, 13);
$s5 = formatString($arrarr{$id}{"t"}, 8);
$s6 = formatString($arrarr{$id}{"l"}, 7);
$s7 = formatString($arrarr{$id}{"a"}, 8);
$score = $score.$s1.$s2.$s3.$s4.$s5.$s6.$s7.chr(10);
$i++;
}
echo "&txtScore="."$score"; // Flash variable, attached to the highscore textfield
?>

I still really wonder why this doesn't work in explorer? Because both browsers recieves flash variables likewise right? I hop somebody can help me.

Hav a nice day...

I have attached the get_score1.php and save_score.php

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Flash, SP2, F12 And Internet Explorer... Arghhhh
This is the kind of thing that really piss me off.

I stayed very relutant to install Service Pack 2 in my Windows, but I finally have to, otherwise I couldnt run Visual Studio 2005. As it should be expected, with the SP2 came some side effects together.

The one that is really irritating me is that, since the installation everytime I press F12 to test my Flash compiling in browser, it stops with that ridiculous yellow bar in the top with a message about "to protect my security and bla bla bla". Well, after to try all possible ways to disable this (and do not get success), I went to Google, and finally I found a tech note in Macromedia reporting this case.

Well, I need to let you know that I get very frustrated when I readed in this tech note that it always will happen anytime you run a Flash application in browser locally directly from hour hard drive, what means to me the same as "F12 never more, unless you dont mind the stupid yellow bar".

For whose wants to read the tech note, can check it at:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/kn...fm?id=tn_19534

Fortunatelly, I found a solution: I installed Firefox in my PC and made it as my default browser.

This is my modest way to protest against Microsoft arbitrarinesses. Why they keep doing things like that, and ignoring everyting else that exists around them?

PS: If someone find a Internet Explorer workaround to this problem, I really would like to know. Maybe I back to use IE again.

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Flash Problem With Internet Explorer
I made a website completely in Flash, the .swf file runs fine in Flash itself. Now that I have it loaded on the server some people are complaining that the site looks incomplete. I can see the full site on my computer in both firefox and IE but the people that are seeing the problems are all using IE. Is their a problem with my .swf? or is it a IE problem? Here is the url for the site http://www.lividsounds.com/

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XML In Flash Issue With Internet Explorer 7
After the various work arounds to get flash to appear without the "click to activate box" in IE 6, I updgraded to IE 7 and now half the xml feeds into my flash movies don't work. They work in IE 6, Firefox etc., but not IE 7. anyone have any idea why that is?

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Internet Explorer For PC Has Box Over Flash File
I've noticed when using internet explorer to view a site created in flash that there is an invisible box so to speak around the flash file that you have to click once to get rid of before you can actually navigate the site....does anyone know why this is? ...and also how to get around it if you are designing a flash site. If I am not explaning myself enough or your not sure what I'm talking about please ask me to elaborate.....

thanks in advance for any help......

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Internet Explorer Flash Problem HELP
My website is 100% Flash. Since the latest Internet Explorer update, no one using Internet Explorer from a PC can enter into my website (past the Splash page). The loading says DONE in the feft bottom corner and the site is blank. I need help with the neccesary code to correct this issue and make the site work. Does anyone know how to help????
Thank you so much! I have been working on this without luck for days!
~Willa

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Flash / Internet Explorer Issues
Hi guys,

Internet Explorer is starting to really get on my nerves. I'm using IE 7, running a 20 sec movie that's 80kb. The html file - I created in Dreamweaver and inserted my flash movie in the center of the html page.

When I view the movie in IE, it frames out the movie with the message 'click to activate plugin'. Suppose you inserted 4 small movies into an html document, wouldn't that get annoying to the user? Firefox does not do this.

Also, IE seems to get off to a slow start, whereas Firefox plays it much smoother in the early part of the movie. IE causes the visual elements and audio to be out of sync in the beginning until it catches up. It's ridiculous because obviously we have to design mainly with IE users in mind.

Any advice would be great how to get around these obstacles!!
Thanks!!
Casper

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Flash + Internet Explorer Problem
I'm having an problem with Flash movies playing in IE6 & IE7 and wondered if you guys could help.

I have an html page created with Dreamweaver with links to my swf movies with targe set to _blank. When I view them, a separate browser window okay and the movie plays. Everything works fine except when it closes. I get a popup message window that says:

"The window you are viewing is trying to close the window. Do you want to close the window?" with a Yes/No button.

Some users have IE6 and other have IE7. Some do not get the pop-up window, the movie/browser window just closes. Others experienced it with either IE6 or IE7, but it's mostly the IE7 users. Any ideas? Please help!

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[F8] Flash Using Diferent Fps In Internet Explorer
Hi! I am currently making a flash game that is running at 30fps. It runs perfeclty and smoothly. But when i try viewing it on a internet page, the framrate drops dramaticly. I tried this with other games i had and they did the same thing as long as the fps was high.
I tried seeing some other games on the net, and played them on the web page then tried saving em to my computer and playing them, and they played the same. So i guess there is a way to solve this...
Is there?
I would apreciate any help.

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Flash Has Gap Around It In Firefox But Not Internet Explorer 6/7
With an image in the top left corner, this page displays the same in IE6/7 and FF:

http://www.simobile.com/hansen/hansen.html

but when Flash of identical dimensions replaces the image, it works in IE6/7 but I get a gap around Flash in FF:

http://www.simobile.com/hansen/hansen-bad-flash.html

I've tested on Windows XP/Vista, and I'm using Flash CS3 to generate AS2 content for Flash Player 9.

I've searched over an hour across the web for a solution, and done all sorts of fiddling with CSS properties and removing whitespace but no joy.

Does anybody have any advice?



Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>My Hansen</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--



object {
display:inline;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

#header img
{
display:inline;
}



body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #666666;
margin: 0px; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0px;
text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
color: #000000;
background-image: url(bg_img.jpg);
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #container {
width: 720px;
margin: 20px auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
border: 1px;
text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
border-style: solid;
background-color: #FFCC00;
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #header {
background: #DDDDDD;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #header h1 {
margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
padding: 10px 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #sidebar1 {
float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: 200px; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
background-color: #FFFFCC;
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #mainContent {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 200px; /* the left margin on this div element creates the column down the left side of the page - no matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */
padding: 0px 30px 0px 30px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
background-color: #acc4e8;
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #footer {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
background:#DDDDDD;
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #footer p {
margin: 0px; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
padding: 0px; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
}
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
float: right;
margin-left: 8px;
}
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
float: left;
margin-right: 8px;
}
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
clear:both;
height:0;
font-size: 1px;
line-height: 0px;
}
-->
</style><!--[if IE 5]>
<style type="text/css">
/* place css box model fixes for IE 5* in this conditional comment */
.twoColFixLtHdr #sidebar1 { width: 230px; }
</style>
<![endif]--><!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
/* place css fixes for all versions of IE in this conditional comment */
.twoColFixLtHdr #sidebar1 { padding-top: 0px; }
.twoColFixLtHdr #mainContent { zoom: 0; }
/* the above proprietary zoom property gives IE the hasLayout it needs to avoid several bugs */
</style>
<![endif]-->
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body class="twoColFixLtHdr">

<div id="container"><div id="header">
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','200','height','120','title','flashstuff','src','header','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','header' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="200" height="120" title="flashstuff">
<param name="movie" value="header.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="header.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200" height="120"></embed>
</object>
</noscript><img src="slogan_anim.gif" alt="slogan" width="320" height="120" hspace="0" vspace="0"><img src="top_right.jpg" alt="topright" width="200" height="120" hspace="0" vspace="0"><!-- h1>Header</h1 --><!-- end #header --></div>
<div id="sidebar1">sidebar-start<h3>Sidebar1 Content</h3><p>The background color on this div will only show for the length of the content. If you'd like a dividing line instead, place a border on the left side of the #mainContent div if it will always contain more content. </p>sidebar-end<!-- end #sidebar1 --></div><div id="mainContent">maincontent-start<h1> Main Content </h1><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio. Donec et ipsum et sapien vehicula nonummy. Suspendisse potenti. Fusce varius urna id quam. Sed neque mi, varius eget, tincidunt nec, suscipit id, libero.</p>maincontent-end<!-- end #mainContent --></div><!-- This clearing element should immediately follow the #mainContent div in order to force the #container div to contain all child floats --><br class="clearfloat" />
<div id="footer"><img src="bottom_left.jpg" alt="bottomleft" width="200" height="120"><img src="bottom_wide.jpg" alt="bottomwide" width="520" height="120"><!-- end #footer --></div>
<!-- end #container --></div>
</body>
</html>

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NEW Bug In Internet Explorer With Flash Sites
ONLY in Internet Explorer...... (PC platform, Not MAC)

EVERY 100% flash site or Flash embedded in Dreamweaver, has this NEW invisible box with a grey line around the Flash stage appearing on mouse over with the finger appearing with this yellow message "click here to activate this control"

This BUG started around mid April when my client called me, but I thought it may have been an active-X issue or his security being set way high.

Now it is a problem with all PC's no matter what PC windows version (Home, XP or 98) that Internet Explorer 6 is on, that I have tested.

I called Microsoft yesterday and they wanted me to PAY them $35.00 to report this bug!!!! HA!

This is a MAJOR issue of which we need to remedy...quickly!

I am asking any Flash Guru to help us....
or
I would LOVE!!! for us designers to FLOOD Microsoft with calls and letters to have THEM fix this QUICKLY, since in my opinion WE should not have to go back and fix our files due to their browser failing.

If you feel inclined....here is the information

1-800-MICROSOFT (1-800-642-7676)

Development Group
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399

Thank you for reading this, my desire is to have this fixed within this month of May.

Lavender

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New Flash / Internet Explorer Problem
I recently went to my website where I post my swf flash files. I clicked on them and none of them work. It says error on page. I had it set up where you click on the jpeg and then window pops up the size of the flash and plays. I haven't changed anything on the site. The only thing I did is update to the new version ofwindows explorer. I noticed if a swf file is on an html page it will play. But the swf won't play on its own. Any information on this would be appreciated.

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Is FLASH Part Of Internet Explorer?
I am trying to persuade our IT department to allow Flash to be used on our internal network system and I am being told that FLASH is not installed on over 50% or our desktop PC's and that it too big a job to update them. Am I correct in saying that FLASH has been a part of I.E. browser for quite some time? If this is true my argument is going to be that the I.E. installed on those PC's have to be a very old version installed and therfore should be up-dated due to security reasons.
Can anyone help me with this argument?

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Flash Not Active In Internet Explorer
Hello there,

I have designed a few Flash websites now and for some reason with Internet Explorer's update awhile back with Active content the user now has to click to start using and interacting with the embedded flash. I have designed 3 sites. Two of which have this problem in Internet Explorer. One of which works fine. I don't under stand why? The one that doesn't work is here (www.bourdodesigns.com). The one that does work is here (www.scotbarchitects.com). I haven't done anything that is specific to this problem on the one that works.

I have been to Adobes help page and tried installing the .js active content update and the flash extension but that didn't work. I might be doing it wrong. Can anyone help me? Thanks so much,

Lorne17

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Cannot See Flash Site In Internet Explorer
Hey Flashers-

I recently published my flash website, and it runs great in Firefox and Safari. However, I am finding out that people who are using Internet Explorer 6/7 are not seeing the site - it just comes up as a blank white page. Any ideas?

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Flash Issues With Internet Explorer
I have an SWF in a website, i used SWFObject to embed it.

When buttons are pressed in the swf it connects to my server and plays correctly the first time through, but then wont play again unless i close internet explorer and reopen it, a refresh doesnt even kick it back in. I know the flash is correct as firefox works perfectly so i can only assume that IE has some kind of security block on it, has anyone experienced this before or just know how to bypass this?

thanks in advance

Greg

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