Re: FLASH: Too simple to be true! (is: browser windows)

[Helen Triolo]

Just for the record, when I tried this, I used a window named "jdowdell"

(OK, I didn't really -- but I used something equally *not* a reserved

word or window name) and got the same result.  This really does seem

like a Flash ActiveX bug to me.  Surely a getURL that targets the same

window as another getURL should not open a new window, should it?  It

doesn't in Netscape; only IE. One button has:


on (release) {

        getURL ("http://www.macromedia.com", "jdowdell");

}


Another button has


on (release) {

        getURL ("http://i-technica.com", "jdowdell");

}


(yes, I went and tried it again with jdowdell just for fun ;-) and every

time you click either of those buttons, IE spawns a new window.  If it's

not a bug, what's wrong?


Helen

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John Dowdell wrote:

> 

> At 6:24 AM 10/10/0, Bill Bogan wrote:

> >> > Using a button in Flash 4 or 5, when I target an open named browser window

> >> > ("main") using get URL and the open named window, instead of replacing the

> >> > content of the named window, it opens a new window in IE (works fine in

> >> > Netscape).

> 

> If you're actually calling a window "main", then that can conflict with the

> reserved term "main", and different browsers may indeed handle this in

> different ways. You might consider using a name which is not a reserved

> term...?

> 

> jd

> 

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