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Subject: Re: FLASH: Too simple to be true! (is: browser windows)
From: derrickito
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:51:09 +0100

if you name a frame that isnt there, its going to pop out into a new
window(hence jdowdell isnt a frame), if you name a frame that is named then
it will load the link into that frame


----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Triolo" <designerati-technica [dot] com>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: Too simple to be true! (is: browser windows)


> 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
> >
> > John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US
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