[SWFObject] [BUG?] Strange Caching issues

[Sam Holland]

I've had the same problem. Sometimes content loads, sometimes it
doesn't. I found that refreshing the page with javascript onLoad
solved the problem 99% of the time, but it's hacky and unprofessional.

I've also been having what I think is a related problem passing
variables from the URL using addVariable and getQueryParamValue. I'm
trying to encode a location for deep linking in the URL, sort of like
this:

http://www.example.com/index.html?page=2

using getQueryParamValue it looks sort of like this:

myFlashObject.addVariable("page", getQueryParamValue("page"));

and in my Flash movie I have a switch statement in the first page that
looks like this:

switch(page) {
    case "1":
        gotoAndStop(1);
        break;
    case "2":
        gotoAndStop(2);
        break;
etc...
    default:
        gotoAndStop(1);
}

Safari, Firefox and Camino with player 9 on the Mac handle this
without a problem. Firefox for Windows also has no problem.

IE 6 SP 2 and IE 7 beta 3 w player 9 on Windows will oddly only work
for the first few frames. Once I try linking to frame 5 or 6 in the
movie, it just stalls on the first frame and disables everything.

I know this sounds like a Flash player problem and not something with
SWFObject, but I've already reinstalled the Flash Player 9 several
times, as well as IE 7 and IE 6. If it's a browser bug, it seems like
a very odd one to me. Could it be something with how IE handles
javascript? Has anyone else ever encountered this? I checked the
archives to no avail before sending this.


On 8/18/06, Mike Mountain <mike.mountain at ecmsys.co.uk> wrote:
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> When running swfobject I'm experiencing strange caching issues on
> refresh/reload of the page - it's almost as if the flash doesn't
> reinitialise itself - so on the second load all the Stage sizes are
> interpreted incorrectly.
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> I'v got around this by placing all the code a few frames on, but it had me
> puzzled for ages.
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> I tested by just loading the swf as the URL and it worked as expected.
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> Only tested this behaviour in IE.
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> Cheers
>
> Mike
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