Okay, weirder and weirder: On my local machine loading from a local file, loading .swf v6 gives instanceof MovieClip=false and v7 and v8 give instanceof MovieClip=true.
On a remote machine loading from that same remote machine, loading .swf v6 gives instanceof MovieClip=false and v7 and v8 give instanceof MovieClip=true. On my local machine loading from a remote machine, all versions give instanceof MovieClip=false. On a remote machine loading from a different remote machine, all versions give instanceof MovieClip=false. My initial thought is it must be a cross-domain scripting issue - i.e. the app wouldn't let you check the instanceof because of a domain scripting policy (see http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer_security_04.html). But I've tested it with System.security.allowDomain() and checked scripting between the two movies, and even when cross-domain scripting works perfectly (no sandbox violations) the instanceof still returns false. (I'm not 100% sure whether I've got the System.security settings right - but I can read vars in the loaded movies and vice versa, so that sounds pretty correct to me.) I still think that's the most likely candidate - that it's _something_ to do with the sandbox/security system getting in the way. After all, a common feature is that v6 .swfs fail all the time - and we already know that a v6 movie can never share a global object with a v7 or v8 movie. I'm certainly running out of ideas for a simple fix, here - and it's definitely not the loading code, it's a 'feature' or bug in the Flash Player. Hope some of this helps! Cheers, Ian On 8/23/06, John Grden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
cool, thanks Ian, I'll try the same tests with published swf's Really appreciate your help!
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