RE: FLASH: RE: Flash: FS Command BUG in Netscape?

[waldo]

Hi Colin


Wow!

Finally having the solution.

I was very frustrated about it. I also noticed that the script was

called good using that alert() stuff.

I knew about your website, but had forgotten to look at it... that would

have saved me a lot of time!!!!

Right now i've moved it to the top off my bookmarks!


Thank you very, very much for your hint!

At www.flashmaster.nu they somehow are using an popup window to. I've

asked them how they did that, but still waiting for their answer.


Colin, once more, thank you!


Happy Flashing (and scripting)


Waldo







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Sent: woensdag 14 juli 1999 15:45

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Subject: Re: FLASH: RE: Flash: FS Command BUG in Netscape?

flashershocker [dot] com

,Internet writes:

>My conclusion is that netscape does something wrong. Can't we ask them

>about this issue, and do you know how?

hi waldo,

i'm coming in late on this one, so pardon me if i'm missing the problem,

but

here's what i know about a window.open bug in netscape from fs command:


in netscape, when the function that executes window.open is called from

flash, the browser executes the function, but does not execute the

window.open line. an alert tells us that the window launching function

is

being called properly. strangely, when the url in the window.open method

is

set to "", netscape does actually launch the window, but it launches it

without content, making it useless [see

http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/launchwindow/launchwindow-nourl.htm

l].

as verification that the code in the window function is not causing the

problem, we can test the function using the HTML button at:

http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/launchwindow/launchwindow.html.

When

called from the HTML form, the window function launches the new window

normally.


Dave Livesay actually has a clever little workaround to the Netscape

problem.

He describes it in his article Getting Started with FSCommand at

http://www.erols.com/dlivesay/FSCommand.html. Essentially, he suggests

enclosing the window.open statement inside a setTimeout that is set to

0, as

in:{setTimeout(window.open('foo.html',

'newwindow','height=150,width=300'),0)} 


hope that helps. very frustrating...


colin


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