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

[tom]

Congradulation Clyde......

Who says there isn't life after debugging!

and thanks for the results post.


tom

ARTISIT

P.S. I am sure you have one hell of an optimized program!!!!Har...har!


"Campbell, Clyde" wrote:

> 

> umm aaah...

> 

> To Tom, John and Jason...

> 

> So I've spent the last 3 days trying to sort out the problem with my little

> .swf  file crashing on NT - I've removed all the Type1 fonts, changed all

> the frame number targets to frame labels, included a preloader... the works

> : It was still not working! When the page loads, the code automatically

> generated by the Publish settings (Flash4) or Aftershock (Flash3), will

> check to see if the Flash plug-in is installed.

> 

> The problem is this : If the user's browser already has the plug-in

> installed, it carries on as normal, but because of some sort of Active X

> control setting in the computer's (NT operating system) system registry, the

> browser crashes.

> 

> Now when the person doesn't have the plug-in installed, and goes to the

> macromedia website to install the plug-in, everything works just fine!! This

> made me realise that there was something beyond the plug-in ro browser

> causing the problem.

> 

> Then I found this file on my computer "InstallAXFlash.exe". When I ran this

> file on the NT PC's who's browser's crashed -

> Hey Presto! They did crash no more...

> 

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