Re: FLASH: various errors when testing movie

[tom]

Jonathan:

I don't know exactly what is causing your crashes.

But generally crashes are a result of bad programming.

Yes Flash creates a program!

It is like an html editor but the reality is Flash is

programming with graphic-objects.

It responds a little differently than a file like

photoshop. There are a lot of Flash developers who don't 

have a clue about programming and consequently sooner

or later they get into crashing trouble, either there

own machine or other visitors browsers, which unfortunately

I get to experience alot more than I want. 

My suggestion would be to take a fresh look at

your project and see if there are places that you

can optimize, places that you are making

wierd calls or have un-necessary symbols

or images burried under top layer channels.

Poorly constructed movie clips.

Take a real close look at what point it crashes.

Pull that part of the movie apart, that is

isolate that channel to a new file, a single scene

and you can test it as a program module.

I was just experiencing some crashes on a very

complex standalone, not in testing scenes but

in executing the projector.

I went back and created a new timeline and 

copied and pasted carefully reconstructing

the new timeline with modules that I thought

could be causing the problem. I found ways to really

optimized the original file. It was half the 

channel depth and I did it because I know from

scripting that extra stuff in a program

is a bad program design and can lead to all

sorts of downline problems...crashes!

It runs flat out now and I know for

sure that the "program design" is optimal.

tom





Jonathan Mao wrote:

> 

> Hi

> 

> I'm getting a lot of errors - type 11 and type 3, when I try to test my movie.

> 

> I'm running Flash 4.0r13 on a blue G3/350 with 64.5MB RAM (I can

> allocate more but you'd imagine 64MB would be enough for files that

> don't even exceed a few MB) allocated to Flash running under Mac OS

> 8.6

> The Flash movie is currently 312k

> 

> I've done a 'Disk First Aid' - no problems found with the hard disk.

> I tried starting up from a minimal System on another volume and I was

> able to test the movie but when I clicked on the menu bar, Flash

> crashed again.

> I re-installed Flash - no help.

> I've tried skipping the 'test' phase and went straight to 'Publish' -

> still crashed.

> 

> Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

> 

> Cheers

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