Re: FLASH: Microsoft Induced Stress HELP!

[Alan Prather]

I'd like to do it differently,

but I'm not sure exactly if there is another way to do it all!?!?!


The only way to do it seems to be to run that loop!

The only other way would be to use setTimeout's but that would be a yucky

way to do it.

If somebody had a high-speed connection the progress bar might be way

behind!

Ack.


I am thinking Java might do the trick. I'll have to learn it over the

holidays.


Thanks!

-Alan


----- Original Message -----

From: John Croteau <

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Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 11:31 AM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Microsoft Induced Stress HELP!



>Hi Alan,

>

>> I have been working on a project that uses the

>> document.flashmovie.PercentLoaded() function to control what frame

>> another movie moves to. That second movie being a 10 frame progress

>> bar showing the progress of pre-loading the much bigger movie.

>> Anyway, Netscape Likes my Javascript (It's off by 10% but I can fix

>> that later very easily) and

>> IE 5.0 Beta likes the VBScript section of the document I wrote for it

>> (locally loaded), but it ***LOCKS* when the document is loaded in IE

>> over a modem. I suspect the loop is too intense and the browser

>> devotes too much CPU time to the loop and not enough to downloading

>> the file (Which it loops until loaded anyway) Catch 22. ARGHHH

>> I can't seem to find a way to get IE to behave like good ol' Netscape.

>> I've tried every single way to get IE to exec Javascript, with even

>> worse luck. I'm close but close not enough.

>> http://members.xoom.com/sevenfiveone/progress_bar_new2.html

>

>Maybe Netscape 4 likes your code but Netscape 3 doesn't.

>This site locked up my Netscape 3 Win 95 browser as well.

>This JavaScript totally overwelmed my browser and most of my computer

>for better than 10 minutes before it gave up and I got my browser and

>computer back.

>You might want to consider a different technique.

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