Flash makes V8 Crash

[AndyJay]

Anyone else experienced problems with flash anims causing v8 to crash?
I used the code below and experienced lots of crashes. Since i removed the code its ok again.

Is there a workround?

Thanks
Andy


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<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-xxxx-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="315" height="63">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/Untitled.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/Untitled.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="315" height="63"></embed>
</object>

[Rudders]

Flash makes V8 Crash

I had trouble using flash with V7 as well. In the end I just took it out and did things the old fashioned way.

Sorry, no help for you!!


Dan

[Simon Williams]

I have a flash animation also, and the code is very similar to yours.

I'm not getting a problem with Actinic crashing, however, my animation will not show on preview.

[Simon Williams]

Any news on this Andy?

[AndyJay]

Hi Simon

No news i'm afraid. I removed the flash files and everything was fine.
I still can't see why a flash file would dp this and it may be something else, but likes i say, V8 is now stable.

Strange -

I might sneek up on it and put them back in to see what happends.

Regards
Andy

[Simon Williams]

"I might sneek up on it and put them back in to see what happends."

Hmmm ... tried that one - and I can confirm that it didn't work!

My problem is my flash animations are not showing at all - just a blank empty space.

Just posted:

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=24234

Fingers crossed!

Simon.

[AndyJay]

Have youi tried putting the files in the PreviewHTML folder as well?

Let me know if this works.

Regards
Andy

[Simon Williams]

Yep, I did try this as well - but to no avail.

I've manage to get the file movie working now (see above thread) - but I'm still unclear as to why it's working(!). It also appears on the preview screens - seemingly AFTER I uploaded it to the server. I don't know if this is due to the preview pane not updating issue though.

I uploaded the move into the httpdocs on my server (it’s also in acatalog), and this seemed to make things work. I also followed Bill's advice to embed the movie using a javascript file, but again, I'm not sure why it doesn't work the 'usual' way. I know Actinic does not upload the movie using the build in FTP, so it has to be done manually using an FTP client (I use FTP Explorer).

I’m still very confused as to why the file had not worked initially – but I guess I’ll have to do some more work and see if I can make it fail again!

Are you still having problems?

[AndyJay]

Strangely enough it seems to have settled down and i've not had one crash today.
No idea why.
One other thing - i'm now experiencing a similar thing to you.
I have a small (telephone number) flash file on all pages.

This use to show in the page preview, but now it doesn't!!!!

It's fine on the website

Wierd stuff going on.

Andy

[Simon Williams]

Very wierd if you ask me Andy.

Mine is previewing in Actinic, and I have the flash file in both the site1 folder AND thre preview folder. The problem is, I can't for sure say that this is what has rectified the problem or not!

I'm working some more on the flash stuff over the weekend, so If I have anything else to report, I'll let you know.

Cheers
Simon