I've been working on a project recently that requires quite a bit of loading imagery into the shockwave environment.
I've had a few problems, which some of the brains on this list has helped me with (and I'm very grateful for). One thing that seemed to be out of my control was the preloadnetthing operation. Sometimes (especially on slower machines or going through a congested network) shockwave would stick on connecting (apparent by putting getstreamstatus to the message window). Sometimes it would stick, othertimes it wouldn't. One solution I've used is to set a timer off at the same time as the preloadnetthing. If, after a designated number of seconds (in my case 10 sec), the getstreamstatus still reports as trying to connect, I'm aborting that netid and setting off a new one. This seems to force the connection to take place instead of sitting on "connecting..." forever. Works for me... One error that sometimes crops up using externalEvent to open a popup window is that the browser is reporting "An outgoing call cannot be made since the application is dispatching an input synchronous call". Possibly this means the browser is waiting for something before it should carry on? Anyone experienced this? :) IanMJ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
