Okay, this is weird...
We're testing some code on a WinXP box ("the client box"); and in both
IE and FireFox, there is no longer a #32770 class "Adobe Player 9"
window popping up when an uncaught runtime error occurs.
So, for example, the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";>
<mx:Button label="Does null have properties?"
click="var o:Object; o.prop.reset()"/>
</mx:Application>
causes no un-caught error on click (i.e., there is no dialog popup),
and execution appears to continue as if the dialog box had popped up,
and then "continue" or "dismiss all" had been clicked. This is the
case in /both/ IE and FireFox.
The (expected) error dialog does occur and is flagged correctly on
every other machine we have here with FP9 installed, including a
Win2000 machine that does not have Flex or any other RIA / web tools
installed.
If we place the above code in a try-catch block, then under "normal"
circumstances, we get the error "TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access
a property or method of a null object reference."; but on the weird
client box we get simply "TypeError: Error #1009".
What could be wrong?
Boring details:
Flex is /not/ installed on the client box. It is (practically) out of
the box as of mid May 2006; no other apps beside the basic
off-the-shelf stuff + FireFox are present. FireFox and IE are both
recent installs (1.5.0.4 and 6.0.2900.2180, respectively). No
extensions are in use in FireFox. No suspicious processes are noted in
the TaskManager.
We had previously installed FP8.5beta, which I at least recall putting
up error dialog boxes. I don't know if this started exactly when we
installed FP9, or some time later; I just imagined that the absence
of the dialog box was due to the fact that, modestly, I was just
coding extremely well :).
I have uninstalled the plugins using Adobe uninstaller; rebooted; and
then re-installed the Flash 9 Beta plug-ins, without any effect.
While Flash was un-installed, I renamed "Docs and Settings/User/App
Data/Macromedia/Flash" to "Old Flash" to determine if there was some
setting which had gotten confused. A cursory examination of both the
registry and Windows/system32/Macromedia was unenlightening - nothing
looked like an obvious settings file.
Any ideas? TIA...
Cheers - Chas
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