>Does the stage just freeze, Director/projector freezes, or the screen
>goes blank?
The stage freezes--that is, all updating of the stage becomes impossible.
The screen doesn't go blank, but when dialog boxes pop up, they have no
text or controls. MIAWs will show with no content. I cannot move sprites
onstage, can't change the appearance of a sprite in any way. UpdateStage
has no effect.
Code continues to execute just fine. Everything is fine, except the screen
can't be updated.
>Have you been able to make an isolated example of this bug?
I have isolated it in my code. I should be able to create a small movie
that reproduces the problem, but I haven't done that yet. There's no doubt
in my mind as to the cause, though.
> > getURL("event:flashAnimDone", _parent)
>
>Why do you need _parent there? Is that a param that passes the target
>path of the parent clip, or is that a param that you only need to use
>with browser windows/frames?
I'm on a kind of shaky ground, because I didn't write the Flash, and I'm no
Flash guru. I think it's because the code is attached to a movie clip,
though (just a first-level movie clip, not embedded in other clips). This
isn't in a browser--it's a CD-ROM app.
>Can you post a copy of the 'flashAnimDone' handler? Maybe something in
>there is the cause?
Sure. Here it is, for what it's worth. It makes a lot of calls to other
handlers. This is in a behavior attached to the Flash sprite.
on flashAnimDone me
set buttonState = getButtonState(me)
case buttonState of
"clickedAnimE", "clickedAnimS":
if pCurrentToggleState = #on then
goFrame(me, "toggle") -- to show toggle #on state.
clicked ancestor -- cause msg to be sent.
else
goFrame(me, "enabled") -- to show toggle #off state.
clicked ancestor -- cause msg to be sent.
end if
"enablingE", "enablingS":
if not pHasBeenEnabled then
reportEnabled me -- let activity know I'm ready to go.
set pHasBeenEnabled = true
end if
end case
end
on getButtonState me
set currFrame = me.pMySprite.frame
set buttonState = getFrameLabel(me.pMySprite, currFrame)
repeat while buttonState = EMPTY and currFrame > 1
set currFrame = currFrame - 1
set buttonState = getFrameLabel(me.pMySprite, currFrame)
end repeat
return buttonState
end
-- goToFrame handles accessing the current language art for the control.
on goFrame me, frameLabelRoot
me.pMySprite.member.actionsEnabled = TRUE
set langSpecificLabel = frameLabelRoot & getLanguageChar(me)
set genericLabel = frameLabelRoot & "E"
if findLabel(me.pMySprite, langSpecificLabel) then
goToFrame(me.pMySprite, langSpecificLabel)
return true
else if findLabel(me.pMySprite, genericLabel) then
goToFrame(me.pMySprite, genericLabel) -- default language.
return true
else
return false -- couldn't go anywhere.
end if
end
The logic gets kind of complex. The behavior sends a message (in the
ancestor) to another object (a frame script). That causes the object to
tell another behavior on the sprite to send its message, which in this case
goes back to the frame script object. It does a bunch of stuff, eventually
going to another movie.
>hard to tell what is going on, but I'd like to help.
Thanks. Actually, I've fixed the problem by converting the sprites to
bitmaps, with film loops for the animation. Once Flash was out of the
picture, the problem went away.
At this point, I'd just like to know if this is a legitimate bug that I
should report. I think I'm going to be added to the beta test for the Flash
Asset Xtra for Flash MX, and I want to make sure this next release fixes
the half-dozen or so bugs I've found in the current (8.5) Xtra.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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