2009/10/26 Sumeet Kumar <[email protected]>: > Hi All, > > I am trying to dynamically create fonts using swfmill on the clients > machine. My flash 8 movie is getting embedded in VB, whenever i try to > create fonts using swfmill,using the following .xml > > [...] > > The font files get generated, and it works fine (in flash player)if loaded > in my main .swf file. But as soon as i use it in my main.swf file embedded > in VB and try to load the fonts files, VB gets crashed.
I assume that you’re embedding Flash in a Visual Basic application using the ActiveX Flash control. Either you’ve found a bug in the ActiveX control, or you’ve found a bug in ActiveX itself, or you’ve found a bug in Visual Basic, or there is an unrelated bug in your application. It’s possible that swfmill is generating an invalid SWF and that is triggering the crash but, per specification a SWF, no matter how faulty, should never be able to crash the host application. Most likely there is a bug in the Flash ActiveX plug-in. To check this, load the problematic SWF in Internet Explorer. If that causes a crash then that’s the problem. Try updating your Flash Player from within IE and see if that solves the problem. If not, I suppose you could report the problem to Adobe. As far as I know this method of loading fonts from external SWFs has never been officially supported, so it wouldn’t be surprising if this technique sends the Flash Player down some dodgy code paths. I personally wouldn’t rely on the Flash Player supporting this functionality in the future. If possible you should use Flash 9 which provides a different and much more reliable method. Hope this helps, Dan. _______________________________________________ swfmill mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/swfmill_osflash.org
