FLASH: Flash Animation not linking to URLs the first time in a user session - why?

[Mathiesen, Lars (CA - Toronto)]

Hi all,


We are working on development of a intranet site and wanted to include an

animation that will serve as a side menu bar for the pages contained in the

site.


The HTML code that we use to load the animation is the following:


<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0

,0" HEIGHT=280 WIDTH=119 >

<PARAM NAME="Movie" VALUE="/ART_EN/images/sidenav.swf">

<PARAM NAME="Src" VALUE="/ART_EN/images/sidenav.swf">

<PARAM NAME="Play" Value="true">

<PARAM NAME="Loop" Value="false">

<PARAM NAME="BGColor" Value="000000">

<PARAM NAME="Quality" Value="best">

<PARAM NAME="Scale" Value="Showall">

<PARAM NAME="SAlign" Value="L">

</OBJECT>


The animation loads, the mouseovers do their thing, but a strange thing

happens when clicking on the menu items. When the user has just started

his/her session, the links do not take the user to the designated URL. In

fact, the browser is not even attempting to change the location of the URL.


If, however, we issue a refresh command to the browser (either manually or

by choosing another page that contains the same navigator), the links to the

URLs begin to work and the browser is redirected to the new location.


So, we are certain that the links have been correctly built in to the

animation but are wondering why the first time through, they would not be

working.


BTW, this is all being done for an audience using IE 5 on PC platforms.


Is it possible we have done something wrong in our parameter tags above? Has

anybody had this happen to them before and managed to solve it?


............................................................................

........

Lars Mathiesen

Design Studio

Deloitte & Touche LLP

BCE Place

181 Bay Street, Suite 1400

Toronto, ON  M5J 2V1


ph:  <416> 601-6500 x7189

fax: <416> 601-6424

email:

lmathiesendeloitte [dot] ca

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lmathiesendeloitte [dot] ca (mailto:lmathiesendeloitte [dot] ca)

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