RE: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!56k modem BANNED!

[Brack, Jeremy]

Hey Scott,

At my company, they are banning us from getting a 56k modem for site

testing, and this is making it nearly impossible to guess if any of our

sites will actually work in the outside world.  I was wondering if your

company allows you the use of a 56k modem for testing the load movie

commands.  We just started making heavy use of Load Movie commands here, and

of course every Flash movie works perfectly on our internal 100Mb LAN.  But

when I go home, and I take a glance at almost any of our latest websites..

all hell breaks lose..

If the loaded movie isnt timed correctly or doesnt have the scripts loaded

at the correct time, then massive sections of the website are not viewable.

After reading your e-mail and learning that different browsers load movies

differently.. I can see that the situation is much worse than I could ever

imagine..


I am curious if any Web Designers out there are also being banned from using

56k modems for testing websites?

If you are being banned from using 56k modems, did they give you a reason

why?


Our IT department thinks that a 56k modem is useless, and that if it runs

perfectly on our LAN, then it will work fine everywhere.  I only wish they

would listen to the web designers for once.



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

From: Scott Jeppesen [

scottjegoxstudios [dot] com (mailto:scottjegoxstudios [dot] com)

]

Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 1:50 PM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: RE: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!!!



I'm actually working on a site that uses loadMovie all over the place. The

whole site is running off of loadMovies actually. This has proven to be

somewhat of a nightmare(as you'll soon find out) in that different browsers

handle it very differently. There are issues with MIME types(which there are

notes on MM site about this although I can't find it now) as well as well as

issues like:

1) Make sure all file names and variable values passed do not contain

spaces. Netscape will freak out and it won't work.

2) If your loading a movie that has code in it make sure that the code

doesn't run or that you don't use that clip until it is fully loaded. This

make take several checking loops if the code in the clip is also pulling in

external variables or clips(as mine is) or if your accessing a database(like

mine is).

Anyways, feel free to email me off list for more specific help. I can give

you a peek at the site I'm working on too. I can't post it on the list(it's

kind of a high profile client).


Scott


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

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ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On

 Behalf Of Eve

Wilson

Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 3:40 PM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!!!



Hi

I  really need help for this one.



Having an issue with a site i am building.


The site in entirely flash.

I have a base movie main.swf embedded in main.html, and in the same folder

as main.swf i have music.swf


Music is loaded into level 1 (also tried 2) about 100 frames in.


However, music never loads when online????


It does load if i open the swf locally.


i have also tried entire string http://........


I am also having the same problem with a txt file i am loading into a

textfield on level 0(which is main.swf)


Any suggestions to cure this illness??


thanx



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