Re: FLASH: New 3D & Java Clock

[John Croteau]

Hi John,


1) Nice 3d effects.


2) The parameters are set incorrectly for MSIE Windows 95/98/NT.

In The Object you have sets the Height and Width as 20% and the <PARAM

NAME="BGColor" VALUE="#014D96"> is a blue background instead of FFFFFF

which is white as you have for the plugin (non-ActiveX) browsers.


3) you should normally be using an FSCommand to Start the Clock and not

OnLoad because onLoad will start the clock only after everything else on

the page is loaded. FSCommand will start it as soon as you are ready. On

this page this doesn't matter but on a more complicated page using

onLoad would display your clock in some static position while the rest

of the page was loading.


Change:


  if (cmd=="what_you_will")

    {

// do her what you will ;o)

    }


To:


  if (cmd=="StartClock")

    { demarre() }


Then add an FS Command with a Command of StartClock.

And remove the onLoad from the Body.


4) About Bertos latest Clock.


This is the first time I looked at one of Bertos Clocks in depth.

I think it was his that was the first Flash Clock but it was not

accurate.

So I created the first accurate Clock with a tutorial on how to create

one  displayed at Anchor.

http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/Index.htm#Tutorials

Berto's clocks are now accurate too.


Notes about Bertos Clock 

  (the version used at http://www.flashzone.com/johny-speaks/)


It displays midnight as 00:00:00

For some reason Berto's JavaScript in his clocks are much more CPU

processor intensive than my clocks. This manifested itselfs in IE3 with

slowed window opening and occasional freezing of access to location bar.

And after a while it gets a message that this script is taking an

extremely long time to execute and a while later it errors out.


Berto updates his clock 2 times a second but I update mine 10 times a

second so that is not it. 


Bertos clock seems to show major symtoms of problems in IE3.

No noticeable problem has beeen detected in Netscape 3 or 4.

Bertos own site crashes my IE 3 browser when going to his second page

where there is one of his clocks.    http://2big.com/bertoflash/

My Clocks will and do run for days nonstop even in IE3.


How robust the JavaScript engine is in browsers:


MSIE 4  - Generally Best

Netscape 4

Netscape 3

MSIE 3 - Genarally the Worst


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