Small Bug in Flash 8: loading swf that´s a vectorized image in many layers

Hi! There´s a small bug in flash 8. If you load a swf
that it´s a vectorized image in many layers, when you give it
an action in onLoadInit, like mc.onRelease, the mc don´t
"catch" that action. You can try loading an image (it works), a lot
of swf (it works), but with this kind of swf the actions onRelease,
onPress, etc... don´t work.
The
swf
I´ll make a different vectorized image to make it works
(if there is only one layer it works)

Seems odd it will only run once. Usually if a cache problem
you get the same
results even when you update the movie or server scripts.
If it is
http:// it is not local even if from the browser
cache.
Verify the html is validated.
Check to see if this applies to all swfs. Create a simple
hello world swf
that connects to a JSP script that returns a simple value to
Flash. If that
seems to work, then the problem is in the JSP or
Actionscripting coding.
Check you can load the JSP script repeatedly using a direct
call to it on
the browser line using
http://.
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
Flash, Actionscript and Flash Media Server examples:
http://flashexamples.hosfordusa.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
"srikanth_s_india" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:e6obld$lfb$[email protected]..
> Thanks for the article link.
>
> I can't provide the URL as it is within our application
which requires
> logging
> in. However, one more interesting thing about it is that
it always works
> for
> the first time (in the browser/machine) but not from the
next time.
>
> My doubt is whether it is because of the caching? When
it loads for the
> first
> time, the HTML and SWF files load from our server and
hence are allowed to
> communicate with our JSP. However, when it loads the
subsequent times, it
> probably loads from the cache and hence considered as a
local file and not
> allowed to communicate with our JSP file which is on the
Internet.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to enable a local SWF file to
load SWF files from
> the
> Internet & access URLs from the Internet in Flash 8
pluggin?
>

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