[SWFObject] BUG FOUND

[Geoff Stearns]

i'm looking at this today actually... we have a project where this  
may be an issue, so hopefully in the next day or two i'll have a fix  
for you...





On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Pablo Garayzábal wrote:

> Hi Geoff,
>
> I hope you have enjoyed your holidays!
>
> Do you have any clue about the ExternalInterface bug?
>
> The url and test files are here: http://www.dinamik.es/test/
>
> Thank you,
> Pablo.
>
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
> [mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] En nombre de Geoff  
> Stearns
> Enviado el: miércoles, 19 de julio de 2006 10:01
> Para: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
> Asunto: Re: [SWFObject] BUG FOUND
>
> someone just posted something to my blog and said that changing it
> from onunload to onbeforeunload fixed it. anyone want to try it out
> and let us know how it goes?
>
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Pablo Garayzábal wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> 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
>> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> 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??
>>
>> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> De: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
>> [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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