FLASH: Forcing a redraw in IE?/ similar to Telegatto problem

[Catherine Kunicki]

Hi.


I am working on demo for a little interactive room for a home safety site.

At this point, I have nothing but a couple rollovers and animating MCs over

a gif background - pretty clumsy proof of concept stuff.


Since its a test, I wasn't too concerned with the actual display - mostly

checking if buttons worked etc.


But I noticed a problem (IE 4.5 Mac) with redraw, similar to the menu

problems the list member with the (really nice I might add) Telegatto site.


Artwork on the background layer is not displaying under certain specific

circumstances -  *animating cycling* stuff in a top level MC will display. I

have a further detail though - this is ONLY a browser redraw problem. When

the page loads initially, all layers and objects displayed in the movie are

visible. If I open any of the "favorites, history, search, page holder" tabs

in IE, the movie loses all but the top layer of images - in other words it

displays white.  This also happens if I rewindow - that is click on to

another application and then click back to the broswer. However, if I

collapse the title bar of the browser (for you PC guys, this just reduces

the window to the titlebar) and then re-open it via the title bar, the

action forces the browser to redraw and all is well.


If anybody is interested I could post an address, but I imagine its a common

enough problem.


Could it be because I have a one frame movie which is not forcing redraw

itself?


Regardless, is there ANY way to force IE to redraw? Was there a solution to

Telegatto?


thanks,


Catherine



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