FLASH: Microsoft Induced Stress HELP!

[Alan Prather]

Hi all,

 

I was hoping I'd get your attention.

 

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.

 

Please, make it a MERRY Xmas and help me solve this!!! ARGGHHH.

 

You can find the doc at.

 

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

 

Try it with IE 4/5 (I can't IE 4 back on my machine ARG)

Please Excuse the Annoying Alerts, helps me test things.

 

-Alan
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