> your discovery that this doesn't occur in a > barebones movie Actually, it's not a barebones movie. It's a live web app I wrote awhile back. I didn't remember if I ever took more than 15 seconds to finalize a PrintJob when I tested it so I got worried and went to look and sure enough no error.
All the discussion about whether it's a bug or not is sort of moot at this point. PrintJob handles the dialog just fine. Technically, it's still not a bug with PrintJob or Flash and here's why. The PrintJob class has no idea if other scripts are in the middle of something when it makes its synchronous call to the system, nor should it. PrintJob can't make sure that there are no other scripts in the middle of anything when it tells the browser to open a print dialog. It does what it's told to do. It's up to the coder to make sure there isn't code that would be adversely affected by Flash making a synchronous call. It's not PrintJob's fault, nor is it Flash's fault. The Flash player is single threaded. Period. You can't say that it's buggy because it's single threaded. That is its nature. You have to work within the confines of your environment. If you want Flash to be multi-threaded, get in line, but don't expect it to happen anytime soon (on a side note, I have some friends who tried to write a wrapper to make Flash run multi-threaded as an experiment (because you technically had to hack the player which is against MM's EULA) and it caused all kinds of craziness). The issue here is that Grime didn't understand how PrintJob worked (synchronous call) and how a synchronous call affects code running in Flash. Now that he does, he can write code to stop his code from executing prior to starting a PrintJob. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
