[SWFObject] BUG FOUND

[Pablo Garayzábal]

Thanks for the "match case" point in the reference link. 

I did an extended replace from FLASHObject to SWFObject and caught the
reference too (the site has more than 250 pages!!). You know, a minute after
doing the change I found out that the change was not necessary...!

I'll change it in all the pages, but it seems not to be the solution.

About the crash, it behaves different depending on the machines. Some of my
client's computers only show the "out of memory" alert, others the "stack
overflow" thing, and others get totally freeze. 
It seems that there is not a regular pattern for that. 
(All machines run Windows XP Pro, ie6, Flash Player 9.)

Thanks again for your help Jimbo,
Pablo.

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De: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
[mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] En nombre de Jim Berkey
Enviado el: martes, 18 de julio de 2006 20:10
Para: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Asunto: Re: [SWFObject] BUG FOUND

Okay, I couldn't duplicate it locally at all, BUT, I uploaded your files
here and find the same as you:
http://jimbo.us/swfobjectTest/
 
I did find that on index.html your javascript link is to SWFObject.js - but
the file is actually all lowercase, so I changed it in index.html. 
Note: The version of swfobject.js is the one you have with the commented out
section. I tried with a fresh version, and got the same time-out in IE when
refreshing. I didn't crash, but did get the time-out message, referencing
line 56.
jimbo
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On 7/18/2006 at 6:59 PM Pablo Garayzabal wrote:
Hi Jim,

If the message is null, then the player security policies are blocking the
jsflash communication, and so the page doesnt crash.

Are the test source files located in your desktop? Try to move them to
another location (c: for example). It sounds weird, but flash player doesnt
like C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\  (dont ask me why, but Ive
experienced very estrange situations with files residing in Windows
desktop.).

If I test the source files residing in the desktop, I get the same result
(null, no crash).

Anyway, have you tried http://www.dinamik.es/test/  ? (the same files
located in a server)

Thank you for your time!
Pablo.

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De: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
[mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] En nombre de Jim Berkey
Enviado el: martes, 18 de julio de 2006 18:01
Para: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Asunto: Re: [SWFObject] BUG FOUND

Just tried again with the window.onload method added back in and still
couldn't make IE crash??

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On 7/18/2006 at 5:24 PM Pablo Garayzabal wrote:
Hi Geoff,

This is a real website problem I am dealing with. The example shown in
dinamik.es is just a dummy simplification trying to debug it. (I didnt find
it just testing, I wish I had time for that these days!!)

The window.onunload method is commented since my first post.

Heres the source code if you want to test:
 http://www.dinamik.es/test/source.zip

Thank you for your answer, and enjoy your holidays!!
Pablo.


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[mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] En nombre de Geoff Stearns
Enviado el: martes, 18 de julio de 2006 14:07
Para: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Asunto: Re: [SWFObject] BUG FOUND

thanks for the extra testing... i haven't had time to verify this yet (i'm
on vacation in europe until saturday night)

I first thought that this might be related to the cleanUpSWFs() function i
added in to address a streaming bug that popped up when you use innerHTML to
write the <object> tag in IE, but if it happens with just 2 movies, i'm not
sure that's the case.

if you have time, try commenting out the part that adds the window.onunload
method and see if that helps. aside from that i'll have to take a closer
look at it when i have more time (next week)




On Jul 18, 2006, at 12:00 AM, Pablo Garayzabal wrote:


Hi,

First of all, I want to thank Geoff for his great and useful code. 

I found a bug affecting Flash player 9.

When you try to establish two ExternalInterface callBacks for two different
swfobjects, the page crashes in Internet Explorer 6 and Flash player 9.

This is the environment:

One html containing 2 different SWFObjects.

Each swf with its unique Id

Each swf with a different  ExternalInterface callBack method name. (Calling
different javascript functions)

In flash player 8 works fine. In flash player 9 the page crashes: 

- Out of memory message when trying to execute a getURL method from any swf
movie.
- Displacement of the swfs from their original position.
- Clicking a simple <a href =whatever.html> html tag takes about 30-40
seconds to execute. Then out of memory message
- Out of memory at line ## error
- Stack overflow at line ## error

Downgrading to SWFObject v1.4.1 fixes the displacement problem.

Source code and example at http://www.dinamik.es/test/

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Pablo.

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