Follow-up... As a test, I set loadForCompatibility=false. Voila, everything works. This indicates a clear defect in the loadForCompatibility functionality with the ActiveX Flash Player. However, I will no longer be able to use cross-SDK SWF's in parallel. ;(
--- In [email protected], "jamesfin" <james.alan.finni...@...> wrote: > > I believe there is an anomaly within the ActiveX Flash Player that is causing > a 1009 error when trying to center a simple popup. > > This logic runs fine on all non-IE OSX and Windows browsers thus causing me > to think it's specific to ActiveX Flash. > > One thing that may be unique here is that we are using > loadForCompatibility=true. The loadForCompatibility property specifies > whether the sub-application is loaded into a peer ApplicationDomain as the > parent (when set to true), or into a child ApplicationDomain (when set to > false). > > Using 3.5SDK with Flash Player (IE) 10.1.53.64. > > > > Parent Application Loading code... > > swf = new SWFLoader(); > parentApp.rawChildren.addChild(swf); > swf.visible = false; > swf.includeInLayout = false; > > swf.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, swfAppComplete); > swf.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioError); > swf.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, securityError); > > swf.loadForCompatibility = true; > > > > > > Parent Application later calls into SWF... > > var callFunction:Function = (swf.content as > Object).application[_commonFunction]; > callFunction(_param); > > > > > > Loaded SWF Code trys to display a Popup... > > var foo:fooEdit = PopUpManager.createPopUp(systemManager.getSandboxRoot(), > fooEdit, true) as fooEdit; > foo.fooID = 123; > PopUpManager.centerPopUp(bldg); > > > > When the PopUpManager.centerPopUp method is called, it fails at... > > TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object > reference. > at mx.managers::PopUpManagerImpl/findPopupInfoByOwner() > at mx.managers::PopUpManagerImpl/centerPopUp() > at mx.managers::PopUpManager$/centerPopUp() > > > > Since these same SWF's run fine in non-IE environments, is there something > unique about the ActiveX flash player that might cause this failure? > > What other kinds of information would be needed to further evaluate a cause? >
