RE: FLASH: What's the deal with LOAD MOVIE?

[Len Harrison]

Hi Flashers,


This is somewhat an FYI on LoadMovie unless someone has better information.

A few things I've discovered in the past couple of days (everything here

applies to using the ActiveX control with VB. I don't know where else this

applies but it does *not* apply to html or to standalone players:


(In VB using the ActiveX)

1) All .swf's called with LoadMovie need an explicit, full-path. Unless you

know where they will be installed on the client machine, this means you

cannot LoadMovie from within the .swf. You must use an FSCommand from your

movie back to VB and then load the movie from VB.

2) Level _99 is not happy in VB. Level _98 is fine. Change top-level movie

loads from Level 99 to Level 98.


Again these are VB with ActiveX peculiarities (features? bugs?) and do not

apply to HTML or projectors.


While I'm at it, another "feature" to spotlight:

Excessive size reduction of an .swf "loadmovie" graphic used as a button

appears to create UAE's in all flash delivery mechanisms on PC's running

WinNT (have not tested Macs or '95/98 systems). Size reduction involved

taking a full screen image and reducing it to iconic size. Crash does not

occur in a reliable or predictable fashion but is triggered by the over

event repeated a number of times (whether or not there is an action attached

to this event). Replacing the graphic with a smaller (and in this case

simpler one) that has not been significantly reduced in size eliminates the

problem.


My arcane contributions for the day.


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

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