I found a solution. This seemed to be caused by either the browser or flash player caching the movie being loaded. Why it wouldn't just run is beyond me.
The solution I put in place is to append a query string with the date to the movie being loaded into the Image. This worked. Why did this pop up with the current release of the flash player? No idea. --- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Strip out your logic so it really is just an Image in an App and see if > it does load. It might just take longer after a cache clear > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of wdsnapper > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] mx:Image loading swf from URL not working > consistently on OS X. > > > > Hello, > > I have an application that runs on every Windows based browser I've > tested so far and even on Mac OS X up to version 9.0.47 of the flash > player plugin. Recently a security update to 9.0.115 on Mac has > caused an app to break. I broke it down to a simple test case. > > <mx:Application . . .> > <mx:Canvas . . .> > <mx:Image source="swfUrl" /> > </mx:Canvas . . .> > </mx:Application . . .> > > The first time the main app loads the SWF loaded by the mx:Image tag > does the right thing. The swf is pulled from the web, it runs and > works as desired. Subsequent refresh of the web page will not show > the swf. The SWF being loaded by the mx:Image tag is only a simple > short flash movie. The main application does in fact run but this > "loading swf" doesn't show on subsequent loads of the page on OS X. > > I have a timer in the main application that governs the time the Image > SWF is shown and then runs the main logic. The main logic always runs > and works fine. > > Have any of you seen any behavior like this? > > One more note is that the source for the Image can be a SWF that is > embedded in the main application. This ALWAYS works fine when > specified. The only issue is loading the SWF over http and only after > the first load following a cache clear (Safari and Firefox on Max OS X > show the same behavior). The external swf is specified with a url > parameter passed into the main app. If this parameter is not present > the app loads the embedded swf for the splash. > > I run the app on Windows on IE, FF, and Safari and no problem. > > Any hints? > > Thanks in advance. >
