Re: FLASH: RE: FLash file tends to crash browser on a some PC's running Windows NT

[tom]

John and Clyde:

I have had a very similar problem.

And Clyde as John pointed out it was a button with 

a link that was not loaded yet. In my case it was a roll over

that crashed. I was as perplexed as you

because it inconsistently reproduced itself at different times.

Times!!! keyword...in as "the timing". Sometimes in my testing

I rolled over asap other I was waiting. I wanted to 

believe it was that I had previously loaded 6 movies. 

It  was so subtle. I checked the browser's cache and it 

was maxed.  I uped the cache to 30MB and it still happened. 

The thing was the files in the cache didn't even come close to the

limit.

As John said weird stuff can happen.

After I changed the loading of the rollover

bingo all was fine and the cache was changed to default.


my 2 cents

tom

PS John thanks for you replay yesterday to my post.


John Croteau wrote:

> 

> Hi Clyde,

> 

> Despite the fact that it seems to occur on NT machines that may be a

> coincidence. An important question you did not answer is if you let the

> file completely load before you click any buttons will it work OK?

> 

> If it works OK when completely loaded (but not when partially loaded)

> then it is likely you are trying to do a forward looking Go To using a

> frame number and not a Label.

> 

> If you try to use a frame number to go to a frame that is not loaded yet

> then Flash will take you to the last frame loaded when you clicked and

> this can lead to all sorts of problems. Since it may depend on how much

> of the file is loaded at the time you press a button on where you will

> go (if the Go To frame is not loaded) the symptoms may vary greatly.

> 

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