[SWFObject] [BUG?] Strange Caching issues

[Geoff Stearns]

maybe you are trying to send it to a frame that hasn't loaded yet?

are you waiting until the whole movie is loaded before telling it to  
jump to that frame?




On Aug 21, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Sam Holland wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I'v got around this by placing all the code a few frames on, but  
>> it had me
>> puzzled for ages.
>>
>> I tested by just loading the swf as the URL and it worked as  
>> expected.
>>
>> Only tested this behaviour in IE.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mike
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