Re: FLASH: See if this makes sense...

[John Croteau]

Hi Rick,


> The other day I posted a question about a little flash piece freezing some

> people's browsers. Several of you checked it out and said all was fine

> (www.cris.com/~rrcominc/dg.swf).  It was fine for  me as well.  Today, however.

> I just installed a newer version of netscape (4.61) and now that little piece

> won't play for me either. My old browser had the 4.0 plug-in but this new

> version apparently did not.  I installed the 4.0 plug-in and all works again.

> it would seem that those having problems don't have the  4.0 plugin. Yes? No?

Yes, seems that way.


> When I publish this piece for Flash 3.0, it's unsuccessful and the error is

> concerning an 'If' action (I'm trying to use the if framesloaded action). So

> again, I'm assuming that's not a viable Flash 3.0 action command.

If actions are Flash 4. The _framesloaded and all other properties are

Flash 4.

You can still use If Frame is Loaded (Flash 3).


> And, assuming all of these little deductions are correct,  here's a broader

> more important question(s).

> - How do you utilize pre-loader movies that check for if framesloaded and still

> be 3.0 compliant?

See preloading -->

http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/HTML/Optimizing.htm


> - When authoring in 4.0, what primary issues do you keep in mind to remain 3.0

> compliant?

See my post earlier today  'Flash 3 using Flash 4 '


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