Try and catch don't stop the errors from happening - it's just a mechanism
to give you some control when these errors happen so you can take
appropriate action.
Better to work out why they occur and clear them all out.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flash Coders List" <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Best Practices for Flash Video and
FlashSiteDelivery AS3
Thank you,
I have inserted a number of try catch statements to catch other errors on
the site. Truthfully though, I don't quite understand this. Does this
method actually stop the error from occurring/interfering? Or does it
simply hide it? Probably a stupid question but I would love some
clarification. Thanks for the nice comments about the site. I really
love developing in flash.
On Jul 25, 2008, at 4:42 AM, Paul Andrews wrote:
Da.vid,
First of all congratulations on a VERY impressive design. Your client
must be impressed - I certainly am.
Mostly it works well on my XP laptop. If you send out 15,000 email links
to subscribers it's certain that with even the most perfect website,
there may be complaints. Out of 15,000 users there are bound to be a few
users whose browser crashes while your website is playing video, or
their PC locks up (even though it's been doing that anyway from time to
time), or they pick up some virus from an email just before they look at
your site and they blame you. You should explain this to your boss and
prepare him for expecting a few emails perhaps.
I run the flash debug player and I am picking up a lot of errors and I
think that while most of the target users won't see these errors, it
would be a good idea to try and deal with them. Check out your flash
log!
For example:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null
object reference.
at on_demand_fla::MainTimeline/infoScale()
at on_demand_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null
object reference.
at on_demand_fla::MainTimeline/onComplete()
ArgumentError: Error #2015: Invalid BitmapData.
at flash.display::BitmapData()
at pixelfumes.reflect::Reflect()
at on_demand_fla::MainTimeline/addReflection()
at VidThumb/onComplete()
etc..
Good luck with the site, I'm sure it's going to be a big success.
Paul
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flash Coders List" <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:02 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Best Practices for Flash Video and Flash
SiteDelivery AS3
Hello All,
This is a long one, but PLEASE, PLEASE, read and help.
I've recently built a fairly complex flash website in ActionScript 3.0
that uses a main .swf to load each individual page of the site. Some
of those pages have video progressively downloading through them. In
the future we plan on having many, many videos available for viewing
on our site.
snip
We will be doing a massive email blast for the new site to over 15,000
people in our database. We wish to get business from the site so it is
important that my boss doesn't get any phone calls or emails about the
site crashing.
He will..
So, all that being said, the following is a list of unwanted behaviors
the site displays
I didn't see any of them.
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