Wow, and I thought KP was only good with random()!
yeah yeah, I know, I owe you a beer for that one.
On 8/24/06, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ha, how old school. when in doubt wait a frame or 15...
On 8/24/06, Chris Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Okay,
>
> I have fixed the problem. I would say that this is certainly bug with
> Flash, but there is a work around. Thanks to Keith Peters for
> mentioning this to me last night.
>
> So here's the deal... Back in the day before MovieClipLoader when you
> wanted to load and external SWF, you had to check a property of the
> MovieClip to see if it existed before you could manipulate it. You
> needed to create an interval that would check to see if it's
> initialized in this way. This all makes sense to me, but what doesn't,
> is that you can't just check that any property of MovieClip was set.
> There is a magic property that seems to indicate that the MovieClip is
> fully initialized. That property is _width.
>
> So with this in mind I added a check to the onLoadProgress event like
so:
>
> private function handleLoadProgress(targetMC:MovieClip,
> loadedBytes:Number, totalBytes:Number):Void
> {
> if (MovieAsset.HIDE_WHEN_LOADED)
> {
> if (targetMC._width != undefined ||
> targetMC._width != 0)
> {
> targetMC._visible = false;
> }
> }
> }
>
> Now, how's that for obscure? It does fix the issue, and instanceof is
> indeed a MovieClip once again. Oh, and even better, _visible works
> like a charm.
>
> Thanks again to all those that helped out with this one.
>
> -Chris
>
> On 8/24/06, Chris Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks for your help on this Ian.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand all of what you found here, so let me
> > summarize with some questions to see if I got it right.
> >
> > Flash 6 SWFs fail every time when loaded remotely? - This hasn't been
> > my experience. I've been able to load some small ones (20K) without
> > the issue.
> >
> > You think it may have to so with domain security in Flash?
> >
> > When loading from your files system the Flash 7 and 8 files load
> > correctly but not Flash 6?
> >
> > Some findings I have made:
> >
> > The behavior is slightly different on a Macintosh versus a Windows
> > machine. Which are you using?
> >
> > Altering nothing before the SWF is fully loaded screws up the
> > instanceof stuff but all of the MovieClip properties work just fine.
> >
> > If I try to alter the _visible property before it's fully loaded it
> > causes that property to no longer function once fully loaded.
> >
> >
> > I have some other ideas to try out this morning and I will keep you
> > posted on my progress. Thanks to all of you who tried to help.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> >
> > On 8/24/06, Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Oh, I should add - I get the same results when I throw the Fling
code
> > > out completely and write a simple loader from scratch.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Ian
> > >
> > > On 8/24/06, Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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.
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