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----- Original Message -----
From: "John VanHorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] External Interface causes error in IE
> you have a url we can look at?
>
> are you sure you object/embed tags have id's and/or name's? did you use an
> operand or space in the file name of the swf, or id/name? all those will
> cause ExternalInterface to malfunction.
>
> i had a problem with ExternalInterface and IE for a while that gave me the
> same error....but only sometimes. it was driving me crazy for weeks because
> it would happen on some projects, but on others, it worked like a charm.
> After sitting down and looking for something wrong, i realized that some of
> our developers - the ones who write the html and js - were giving (we use
> swfobject, by the way) the overwritten div and the object tag(second param
> passed to swfobject) the same id's. and since IE uses the object tag with an
> id, there were two nodes with the same id on the page. other browsers use
> the embed tag, which uses a name attribute, not an id.....so it was only
> happening in ie. i havent had a problem with ExternalInterface at all since
> then.
>
> On 10/16/06, Clark, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I am getting an error in Internet Explorer whenever I try to use the
>> External Interface to call JavaScript from Flash or when I try to call
>> actionScript from JavaScript. I do not receive an error in other
>> browsers. It is only in IE. The error I get is a runtime error that says
>> "Object does not support this property or method." When I open up Just
>> In Time debugging, it shows there is a problem with this method when I
>> call JavaScript from Flash.
>>
>> try {
>> externalInterfaceTests.SetReturnValue(__flash__toXML(sayHello("browser")
>> ) ); } catch (e) {
>> externalInterfaceTests.SetReturnValue("<undefined/>"); }
>>
>> I am not sure what the problem is. I haven't used External Interface
>> since Flash 8 first came out and it worked fine at that time. I suspect
>> that recent changes to IE may be the cause.
>>
>> Has anyone else had similar problems with IE and ExternalInterface?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Craig Clark
>> Instructional Developer
>> Concurrent Technologies Corporation
>>
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