We just worked this out the other day. It seems to be caused by large amounts of text in a textarea control - the Mac player seems to handle this fine, but the windows player seems to slow down drastically and eventually crash. It took a while to believe that the Mac player was doing something better than the Windows one :-)
We had increased the amount of tracing information we were dumping in the textarea between releases - on the XP machine that wasn't actually crashing (just being very slow) I selected all the text in the text area and hit delete, causing things to return immediately to normal.
Here's the code we were using - throughout our application we call mx.core.Application.application.tracer(...) to trace debug info. Should we be appending to the textarea in some other way?
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Cheers,
Robin
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On 17/02/2005, at 5:15 AM, Paul Betlem wrote:
<x-tad-bigger>Would you mind sending us some more information on the specific test case that is crashing below, preferably a public facing URL. We�d like to investigate the crash in the Flash Player.</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>
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</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>I suspect the crash is related to the Player being unable to allocate the memory it needs for the Flex app, but we can take a look.</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>
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</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Thanks.</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>
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</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>--- Paul</x-tad-bigger>
