Flash :: Loadmovie() And Netscape?

Loadmovie In Netscape Vs. IE
Hey everyone,
Has anyone experienced a problem using the loadmovie command in netscape. Im using a centralized preloader and loading various swf's into the main movie. I find that this only works on IE which doesn't sound logically since it's probably an issue of my own. Any ideas as to why this might be the case?

Here is the URL that apparently only works in IE. It will work in netscape (but not the first time you view it). I would greatly appreciate any help that this forum could offer.
http://www.threecell.com/clients/blu...e_region3.html

Thank you
Don Ho

LoadMovie Works In IE, But Not In Netscape? Help
http://www.buckleyavenue.com

My site functions as intended in IE, but when i check it in Netscape its apparent that the loadMovie in _levels isn't working. Is there a different way of scripting it to function in both?

This cross-browser thing is getting old, man.

Thanks
Mark

http://www.buckleyavenue.com

Mc.loadMovie() And Netscape 6 Don't Work Help
If I use mc.loadMove() to load a swf it works great in IE and older version of Netscape for Mac and Windows, but it doesn't work for Netscape 6.2 for the Mac or Windows (I don't know about Netscape 6.0 I haven't tested it yet).

Is this a known issue and everyone is doing a workaround if they have to worry about Netscape 6.x? Help!

I know Netscape 6.0 was crud, but by avoiding the known FS commands and other issues reported with Netscape 6 I hoped to be able to run on it so I wouldn't have to tell my employer "no can do". They had Netscape 6.x in the specs so I need to try to get it to work.

To recreate the problem:

Make movie with a simple animation or box in it or something
export it as "yada1.swf"

In another movie make a movie symbol drag it onto the stage, call it "test1". Make it extend over 5 frames.

in Frame 2 type the action script:

_root.test1.loadMovie("yada1.swf");

in frame 5 just loop through the frame
with the actionscript:

gotoAndPlay(3);

Results: the test Animation shows up in IE and previous to 6.0 versions of Netscape on Mac and Windows. However Netscape 6.2 doesn't load it n Mac or Windows.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Netscape 4.7 Loadmovie Problem
I've got a movie that's loading an extrnal .swf. Works great in IE and NS 6, but it doesn't load the movie in NS 4.7. What's up???

Thanks a million in advance!!!

Sean

LoadMovie() Probs With Netscape
I'd greatly appreciate any help with this one.

I'm just developing my new website. In the gallery section,when you click on the link, it runs a whizzy animation thing then loads a new .swf depending on what button is pressed - standard stuff. Or so I thought...

http://www.bigblueshed.co.uk/

The file is produced with Flash MX. It all works fine in Internet Explorer.

To an extent it works in Netscape (4 to 7). However, when it gets to the LoadMovie bit, after the animation, nothing appears on screen, even though Netscape seems to be registering activity as though it is loading the movie into place. Unfortunately it just stays blank on screen.

There is an invisible mc which loads the .swf into another mc called 'filmholder'. All the fun happens in an mc called 'buttons'. 'film'is the variable assigned when said button is pressed.

mUrl = "../flash/gallery_"+film+".swf";
_root.buttons.filmholder.loadMovie(mUrl);

Like I say, in IE it all works fine. And Netscape seems to be finding it, just not showing it, which aint good.

Am I missing something obvious here? Please tell me if I am, my eyesight is starting to fade now.

Thanks very much

Andy

Netscape 4 Loadmovie Problem
I am having a problem using loadMovie with Netscape 4. The main.swf loads menu.swf fine. Initially this movie shows a rotating button. On rollover it should roll out the rest of the menu. But it just sits there spinning. It works fine with ie and fine with Netscape 6. I have checked the Macromedia techNotes and the closest thing I found related to making sure LiveConnect was enabled and that it was set to true in the HTML. But this was all correct.

What Is Netscape Doing? LoadMovie () Is Buggy
hi,

inside my main .swf movie I load other .swf movies.
I am not using the global function loadMovie("URL", "_leveln"); but am loading inside existing movieClips: movieClip.loadMovie ("URL");

In IE all works just fine, but in Netscape (tested in NE 4,7 and 6) loading is very buggy! Sometimes it works, sometimes not. It seems, Netscape doesnt respond reliably to loadMovie().

What could I do, am fed up with those browser wars.

thanks

Netscape Makes My LoadMovie Disappear
I have been ripping my hair out for about a month, trying to figure out why loadMovie isn't working properly in Netscape. I give up, and look to you, O Great Ones, for help. I have run into what I think is the root problem, but I have no idea why it's happening.

Here's the data structure I have set up, go to the heromachine.swf link to see this in action.

* heromachine.swf (http://www.heromachine.com/beta/heromachine.swf) = the
host movie
* m1.swf (http://www.heromachine.com/beta/m1.swf)= the external .swf I am trying to load into _root.clipCharacter of heromachine.swf. It has two frames and 12 layers, with an action layer on the top. None of the objects on the other layers in this movie have any actionscript attached to them other than a stop() command in the first frame. It is 112KB in size.
* _root.clipCharacter = dummy movie clip on the main timeline of heromachine.swf into which I will load m1.swf

There is a button (just above the big white box on the left side of the screen) on the root of heromachine.swf which has the following actionscript:

on (release) {
loadMovie ("m1.swf", "_root.clipCharacter");
}

ActionScript in m1.swf:
* frame 1: No actionscript
* frame 2: only a stop() action,

Internet Explorer 5 loads the movie and advances to frame 2, then stops like I thought was supposed to happen.
Netscape 4.7 loads the movie, plays frame 1 and 2, then all content disappears. There's nothing on the screen where the content should be. If you hit the button again, you now see it stop on frame 2 like it's supposed to. This is happening on three different machines, running Win98 and Win2K.
All have the Flash 5 plugin installed and verified. The mime type on the server is, I believe, set correctly.

It does the same thing even if I have a play() action on frame 1 of m1.swf.

Why is this happening in Netscape? Why doesn't it stop on frame 2 like it's supposed to, and where does the content go the first time it's loaded?

Yours in Utter Confusion,

Jeff Hebert
Heromachine.com

LoadMovie In Netscape Doesn't Work...
Hey. What can be happening here that when I use the loadMovie action it dowsn't work in Netscaper 6.2 and it does in Opera 6 and IE 6 ????

Help here! I want everyone to see my webpage
chek it out at http://www.asoft.com.ar/index.htm (not index.html)

LoadMovie Doesnt Work In Netscape
I attach image into MC:

MC.createEmptyMovieClip("img", 1000);
MC.img.loadMovie("C:/btnImage/FactorButton.jpg");

The image will show in IE but not in Netscape.

Does anyone know what cause this problem & how to show loadMovie("image") in Netscape?

Thanks

Trouble With Netscape (Damn Netscape 4.7)
http://eservices.no-ip.com/clients/abcfood/

Pls check the link above with netscape
There is a spacing above the 2 flash animation (not developed yet)

I'm wondering if anyone can help me

Netscape
Hello,
I've created a flash application that is running at

http://www.enerworks.com/discover.asp

The problem is, when it's viewed in netscape, the movie just runs right through and doesn't stop at any of the stop frames. Does anybody know why this is happening?

Thanks, MLE

IE Vs Netscape
any ideas on why this site totally doesnt work on netscape?

the flash version is fine on IE - but of you look at the IE version of the page on netscape, its totally messed up. So i ended up having to start making an html version for netscape.

any ideas? thanks http://www.cus.commerce.ubc.ca

Not Netscape
Does this param tag not work Netscape browsers.

If not, any solutions to using a behaviour in DW to redirect the home page to a non flash page

Plz Help Me With That F*?ing Netscape Bug
Hi yall!

I do have a problem with Netscape (4.5 and newer):
When I send a fscommand that is caught by by the xxx_DoFsCommand-routine of the .htm that hosts the flash, Netscape will do anything I want it to do (via script) but relocate the .htm to another file.

Don`t get me wrong: I don´t want it to open a new browser window that loads the intended file; I want Netscape to open up the new file in the same window the swf (and the script) is in.

Buuuuuuuuutttttttt: That stupid ***** (xcuse my french) won`t do it.

So, is there anybody out there who has a workaround for that bug? Please tell me if so.

thanxx

-----------------------------------------
Besides, your site`s great.

Netscape
I am posting this because I've seen a lot of people wondering about Netscape compatibility with their flash site (and wondered myself)

So I downloaded Netscape 6, tried to view my site and a pop up window appeared to download flash 6 for netscape.

I didn't have any problems viewing my site....

Just to let you know if it can be useful.

IE Vs. Netscape?
I have a simple onClipEvent that plays an externally loaded movie when it hits the frame.

It works in Netscape but not in IE. Both are using the Flash 6 player.

Any ideas???

IE/Netscape
This movie works in IE but not Netscape. What do I need to do?

http://gsmdesigns.com

Thank you,

Andy

Possible Netscape Bug?
Hi all, anyone know of a bug with MX and Netscape that might cause images that are loaded dynamically on a rollover to not show up when being viewed with netscape???
To check for yourself go to http://mechromation.com and check the portfolio section. here is the code i am using for this... maybe theres a problem with it?

loadVariables("gallery.txt", "_root");
function preset(whichOne) {
curPreset = whichOne;
_root.pic.loadMovie(_root["image"+whichOne]);
textHolder.curCatagory = _root["catagory"+whichOne];
textHolder.curTitle = _root["title"+whichOne];
textHolder.curInfo = _root["info"+whichOne];
}

on the buttons this is the code:

on (rollOver) {
_root.gotoAndStop(6);
_root.preset(20);
}
on (rollOut) {
_root.gotoAndStop(5);
}
on (release) {
getURL ("javascript:NewWindow=window.open('gallery files/aelogo.htm','newWin','width=600,height=550,toolbar =0,location=0,scrollbars=0,status=0,resizable=1,fu llscreen=0'); NewWindow.focus();void(0);");
}

anyone see a problem with this? Please let me know...
Thanks

Netscape 4.7 - Php
hi!
a concrete question.

is it generally possible to get content dynamically in a flashsite via php or a texxtfile. this site have to run in netscape 4.7!!! loadVariables and loadVariableoObject, doesnt works. give it a chance? its frustrating.

regards
dex

Mx And Netscape
I made a movie in mx. It displays in IE, but not in Netscape. I had other movies I made work in Netscape, but they were created in Flash 5. So, I saved the MX file as a Flash 5 file and published from there. It displayed in both browsers. One other piece of information. I started from scratch with a new MX file, put some text in it (no animation), published it, and I could view in both browsers. Any help on this?

Netscape
Hi there,

it seems that netscape users can't acces my site, it just runs the preloader and then stops running, it doesn't go to the main scene. Does anyone know more about this??

thanx

EJ

Netscape
www.55-studio.com is my page... can somebody tell me why the page aint showing up under Netscape?? i did a other page and same problem there with netscape ...

please check th HTML code maybe u find out whats wrong

Netscape 4.7 No Go
Please help me figure out why the following site gives me this error after the entry page :

The instruction at "0x004ae720" referenced memory at "0x0000006c" . The memory could not be "read".

It works on higher versions of Netscape and on IE. Please help me out.

The site is: www.wincreps.com
Password = present

Thanks!!
Katy

What The F... Is Up With Netscape 7+?
I've got a flash movie that sits in a layer on my web page. Initially the layer is hidden. When you click the login button, it executes the following code...

Code:
function showLoginBox(){
if (ns4){
document.loginLayer.visibility = 'visible';
window.document.loginbox.TGotoLabel("_level0/","open");
window.document.loginbox.Play();
}
else {
document.getElementById('loginLayer').style.visibility = 'visible';
if (ie4){
window.document.getElementById('loginbox').TGotoLabel("_level0/","open");
window.document.getElementById('loginbox').Play();
}
if (ns6){
window.document.loginbox.TGotoLabel("_level0/","open");
window.document.loginbox.Play();
}
}
}

In IE and NS4, it works fine. Well, NS4 isn't fine, but NS7 is worse. I've gone through all the docs at macromedia about communicating between flash and javascript and I'm doing it the way that they say to do it. In NS4, it will show my container layer and go to the correct frame. But, it will not play. In NS7, it will show the layer and that's it. It won't go to any frame or seem to even load the movie. Can anyone give any ideas on what I could try? Thanks.

Netscape == ?
whats the nn equiv to this javascript statement ??? (that works GREAT in IE)

window.document.moviename.SetVariable('play', 'true');

I know this doesnt work in nn4, what about 7 or whatever version they're on ?

Netscape And IE
When viewed in IE, the frames are smooth and rather quick.
When viewed in Netrape, it is quite a bit slower, but still smooth. The timing with the music and everything are spot on, just slower?
I'm at 30fps. Cache is cleared.
What gives?

Netscape 4.5
Does anyone know why flash files don't seem to work in Netscape 4.5?
My flash file just shows up as a black box?

Mike

Netscape...
I have noticed I am having problems with flash sites when using netscape. I am using Netscape 7.0. When I goto a flash page I uslly just get the bank HTML page, no flash at all. Any ideas?

Thanks... Bubba

Swf In Netscape 7.1
A customer is telling me that an .swf file made from Flash 5 is not loading in Netscape 7.1. It works fine for me. Anyone have a clue as to why others are having problems?

Netscape
hello

i am using Flash MS 2004 and am new to the wonderful world of flash...

i just finished a flash intro for my website..
and included a skip intro button which uses a loadURL actionscript when clicked on

everything works fine and dandy in IE
but in Netscape for some reason when i click skip intro it goes to the next page and loads it all squished up in the top of the browser, i cant seem to explain it and i have tired to export the swf file into different formats but nothing seems to work (mainly cause i cant seem to figure out why its happening)

also.. netscape wont play the audio in the intro (but only on some computers, and with the same version of Netscape.. weird eh?)

any feedback regarding these issues would be very helpful and much appreciated

thank you
Rafiq

Netscape & Co. Really Sux
This is really a disapointment.

I have this site where I need to make some user checking, and in a particular section of the site, I need to pass a parameter to the Flash movie, from a PHP script just like this:

print "<param name="movie" value="members.swf?Response=granted">";

Well the situation is simple: either Netscape, Mozilla and Firefox ignores the parameter passed to the movie, while IE accepts it ok. I am not sure if the problem is with the browsers itself or with Macromedia plugin for them.

Now I have this site on line and need to find a detour to this awfull gap, just because there are a lot of people that uses this f***** browsers.

Well, point for Microsoft. This kind of thing just shows why MS is really the biggest one in the world, and why people have so much resistence to join to their competitors.

Humm.... forget the cheap philosophy!

If anyone knows the solution for this problem I erally would apreciate if it could be shared.

Thanks!

Netscape
I have a dynamic, 3-D flash chart. Every time a user changes a value in one of four text boxes the chart changes to reflect the new values.

The page has four default values in the text boxes when the page loads. The problem is in Netscape the chart won't conform to the original 4 values when the page loads. Once a user types in a new value or hits the 'refresh' button the chart works fine and it also works perfectly in IE from the get go.

Why won't the page recognize the variables onLoad in Netscape? Is it a swonking problem?

Thanks,
Amber

Netscape And IE
hello.

I am having trouble with my site. It works fine in IE, but Netscape doesn't show the new files I uploaded to my server and constantly says "tranferring data" in the bottom of the browser.

Does anyone know what's wrong? I use MX, and am cetain I updated to Flash Play V7 on Netscape, but IE might still have V6. Could that be the problem?

I don't think so because all I did was add an extra library-linkable MC to the site, and it reads the other 10+ linked MC's fine.

can somebody check to see if they work fine in both on their computer?

http://custardbelly.com

thanks.

Get Url In Netscape 4.79
Ok I've got a swf movie with 5 buttons that, when clicked on, use the "getURL" function to goto other html pages. The buttons work fine in Internet Explorer but do squat in Netscape 4.79. Anybody know whats going on here. Heres the code I used. Anybody have any ideas????

on (release) {
getURL("agent5.htm","_self");

}
on (rollover) {
gotoAndStop(32);

}
on (rollOut) {
gotoAndStop(3);

}

Netscape 7 Please Help
ok, thought I would start to make my new site work with netscape7.

FSCommand - works fine but cant get the following to work

window.open to call a popup

or

SetVariable - to return a value to flash.

Now if this really is a problem - why are flash developers still using netscape when it is so full of bugs..

I donloaded it 3 days ago and it didnt even have the most uptodate player..

I new there was a reason I like IE. everything works the way it is supposed to.

Anyway any AS Developers have an answere please help so I can make my new site cross browser compatible.

Netscape And IE
Because I have heard the Flash isn't transparent in Netscape, is there anyway I can have my site detect what browser the user is using and the right page show up?

I have two webpage versions one uses flash other doesn't.

thanks,

lmarshall

Netscape 4.7 Bug
Hi,
I made a drop down menu with flash in my index page. It works well in the IE. But in Netscape 4.7, when I click on the sub menu "Academic Credits", it says "The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. " It really bugs me.

Does anyone have a clue? The URL of my website is http://uofmpt.memphis.edu/minghui

Thanks.

IE Ok NETSCAPE Ko
Hi all.

How is possible that my pixelfonts are visualized correctly in Internet Explorer and not correctly in Netscape??

I can't understand...

Thx for all answers...

GetURL And Netscape 4.7
Hi *,

does anybody of you know why this two doesn't work:

foo = "1";
getUrl("test.php3?foo=" + foo);

or

foo = "1";
getURL("test.php3", "_self", "GET");

but this one does:

getURL("test.php3?foo=1");

This issure takes place when using NETSCAPE 4.7.

Thanks for help,

Kamil (who just spent 8 hours at that problem).

IE / Netscape Compatibiblity?
Hey. I just finished work on a full-feature site made completely in flash. My problem regards the way it functions in IE vs. Netscape. It seems to run fine in IE, but in Netscape, none of the buttons work correctly (i.e. instead of perfoming the correct action, they just cause the entire movie to re-start itself when clicked). I have only tested the site out on a mac, so I don't know if the pc versions will be any better/worse. The site is quite heavily actionscripted, but Im not sure if this has anything to do with it. Does anybody have any information regarding how netscape & IE interpret flash actionscripting? is there a particular line of code that tends to be buggy in one or the other? Any information would be greatly appreciated.

cheers
john

Devil Netscape...
I don't know whether this is the right board for this question but then I don't know the root of the problem!

Can any one tell me why this site doesn't work on Netscape
(I've downloaded the flash player etc). It works fine on IE

http://www.casalia.co.uk

It just says Movie not loaded when I right click it. Is this something obvious?

Thanks in advance.

*argh* Netscape
I have a problem with a movie clip that contains a "loadmovie" not showing up in Netscape? I've had this problem in the past...works fine in IE (of course).

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

No Sound In Netscape
I have embedded (wav) and (mov) sounds in my Flash 4.0 movie that play great in IE but not Netscape.

Any suggestions or code snippets that can resolve this browser issue?

Netscape Issues?
Hello --

thanks for your time.

I created a simple little flash object that has two buttons to go back and forth between two scenes. Each scene has a dynamic text box that loads variables from an external .txt file.

Here's the url: http://www.es.com

Problem is, I think that there are some real netscape issues right now. The text doesn't display properly, and the buttons don't work. If you want to download the .fla and the .txt to check them out, here's the link: http://www.cinegraff.com/infoTabs/

thanks a lot --
Brig.

FSCommand In Netscape 6
I heard that FSCommand in Netscape 6 doesn't work. So how can I send variable from Flash to JavaScript?!

Please help

Thank you

P.S. I tried with getURL("javascript:myfunc(myVariable)") but it doesn't work

Borders In Netscape
Does anyone know how to get rid of annoying borders around flash movies in Netscape.

I've set margins to 0, and made the movie dimensions 100% but I still get an ugly border in Netscape. I then tried adding marginwidth=0 and marginheight=0 and that got rid of the top and left border but it's still there at the bottom and right.

To demonstrate the problem if you open http://www.casalia.co.uk in Netscape and click the availability button the calendar pop-up has a border which ends up cropping the movie and making the calendar unusable.

Needless to say, this all works fine in IE.

Thanks in advance.