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Subject: Re: FLASH: Onload event interfering with DHTML Hierarchial menus
From: David Wallach
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:36:54 +0100

John,

Are you sure that was the url in question, I just get an apache errory page
not found on server....

dave

> Hi everyone. I have a bit of a major problem at the moment. I have
> a flash countdown clock which uses javascript fscommand to link into
> the movie and set the number of days to a certain date. It works by
> calling three functions in the body tag which are activated by an
> onload event i.e.
> <body onLoad="goones(),gohundreds(),gotens()">
> which in turn determines the numbers that have to be set in the flash
> movie, please see http://www.mediumlook.com/~krash/counter2.html
> (developed by Michael Krisher) for an example of what im talking
> abutmaybe you could also look at the code to get an idea of what im
> talking about.
>
> Right next to the problem. I am placing this flash banner clock on
> the company intranet, however in testing i have found out that the
> DHTML menus which pull out when you click on them to show sub menus,
> do not render properly i.e. they do not pull out to show sub menus.
> However they do work whenever i take out the onload events for the
> functions as outlines above.
>
> Therefore the problem lies with onload event. My boss tells me that
> since the menu system is also event driven there is conflict between
> the two events
>
> You can find the code for the menus that we are using at
> http://webreference.com/dhtml/column21/ to give an idea of whats
> going on.
>
> Is there any way around this problem people, is there anything i can
> tweak in the dhtml code to allow for the two onload events. Can i do
> an onload in the html page without it being in the body tags???
>
> I really hope someone can help me out here as i spent along time on
> the flash movies and they may have to be scraped if i cant get this
> problem sorted....
>
> would be very appreciative and grateful if someone can help here.
>
> Thanks in advance....
> john
>
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