Macromedia Flash 8 Bugs and Emerging Issues

[senocular]

No application is bug free on first release, especially one as large scale as Flash. There are bound to be issues in both the Flash IDE as well as the Flash player. If you find one, let us know. A list will be kept here to keep everyone aware of known issues and hopefully workarounds can be found to deal with them until Macromedia corrects them. Remember, for any problem you encounter, let Macromedia know so that they may be aware of it and hopefully find a solution.

http://www.macromedia.com/go/wish/

Also see Macromedia's

Flash 8 Emerging Issues Technote (http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_18889)
More Technotes (http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/more_issues.html)


Please post bugs regarding full release (not Beta) software. It is helpful if you can repeat the steps used to reproduce this bug and what system you were using when it happened (OS, preferable hardware setup)

To see what Flash Player version you have, use the following:

Find Your Flash Player Version (http://www.senocular.com/pub/flash/flashplayerversion.swf)


Find the current available version from Macromedia here:

Download the Latest Flash Player (http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash)

[senocular]

I thought I would start this now with the release so close.

(post reserved for more space if needed)

[isaacrivera]

Ok, I have a first one!

On a Mac G5 Dual 1GHz, Mac OS 10.4.2, the trial version of Flash 8 Pro. In the Preferences panel, ActionScript tab, if you try to select colors for the different language elements, a blank color chooser sheet pops up. Nada in it. clicking on it selects white as the element color!!! Choose "Reset to Defaults" to undo.

peace

[cruci]

When I tried to publish an existing project using mx.transitions.Tween and mx.transitions.easing.* in F8 it gave me a bunch of errors. I renamed the mx folder and copied the one from Flash7 and everything worked fine.

Someone with more AS knowledge than me might be able to figure out what's different.

[antonin]

We have two servers at work : one with the flas and one with the swf and all the media. With mx2004 we used to put
\\pc-internet\myProject\mySwf.swf
in the publish setting but this kind of path don't work anymore with flash8...
It's very annoying cause we have to create maps and put :
Z:/myProject/mySwf.swf

[cruci]

If you detach the timeline from the stage, and then save the layout, the timeline will revert back to being attached to the top of stage when you reload the saved layout.

It's like the Library all over again!

isaacrivera: That works fine for me. OSX 10.4.2, Flash 8 Pro Trial.

[cruci]

Open the Help and Search for something.
Open one of the resulting pages, and then choose Reload (right-click).
Hard crash to desktop every time.

[Immulsifier]

Open the Help and Search for something.
Open one of the resulting pages, and then choose Reload (right-click).
Hard crash to desktop every time.

Works fine on both my laptop and main rig.

[cruci]

I'm on OSX 10.4.2, you?

[Immulsifier]

No Windows XP on both computers.

[senocular]

Matrix Transformations Not Considerate of Flash Player Zoom

Certain matrix transformations do not consider the Flash player zoom when used.
Example:

http://www.senocular.com/pub/flash/8/index.php?f=smileyshake

Notice the location of a smiley when clicked. Matrix operations perform this using concatenatedMatrix, invert and concat. Deselect the smiley to return the shaking on the left. Now right-click on the player and Zoom in. Click on another smiley and notice that it is positioned not where it should in respect to the gray circle but in the player as though it had not zoomed at all.

Windows XP SP 2, Flash player 8,0,22,0

[VersusMG]

if i use this code in the actions panel



import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
import flash.filters.ColorMatrixFilter;
import flash.geom.Rectangle;
import flash.geom.Point;
/* THIS CODE RUNS ONCE */
// set up the blur filter (2x2 blur, quality of 1):
blurF = new BlurFilter(2,2,1);
// set up the color matrix filter:
colorF = new ColorMatrixFilter([
0.97,0,0,0,2, // reduce red fastest
0,0.99,0,0,3, // reduce green slowest
0,0,0.98,0,4, // reduce blue
0,0,0,1,-0.7 // fade down alpha
]);
// set up the rect that we will apply the filter to:
rect = new Rectangle(0,0,WIDTH,HEIGHT);
// set up the point that we will use:
pnt = new Point(0,0);
/* THIS CODE RUNS ONCE EVERY 5 FRAMES */
// apply the filters to the bitmap:
canvasBmp.applyFilter(canvasBmp,rect,pnt,colorF);
canvasBmp.applyFilter(canvasBmp,rect,pnt,blurF);


And click the Check Syntax it says there are no errors. But if i click the Auto Format it says that the script contains Syntax errors and it can't be processed.

[TheCanadian]

When I tried to publish an existing project using mx.transitions.Tween and mx.transitions.easing.* in F8 it gave me a bunch of errors. I renamed the mx folder and copied the one from Flash7 and everything worked fine.

The location of the tween class files has probally changed with Flash 8 will need to import it from a different location.

This is strange since I just imported one of my older files into Flash 8 and
the tweens worked fine.

[TheCanadian]

if i use this code in the actions panel



import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
import flash.filters.ColorMatrixFilter;
import flash.geom.Rectangle;
import flash.geom.Point;
/* THIS CODE RUNS ONCE */
// set up the blur filter (2x2 blur, quality of 1):
blurF = new BlurFilter(2,2,1);
// set up the color matrix filter:
colorF = new ColorMatrixFilter([
0.97,0,0,0,2, // reduce red fastest
0,0.99,0,0,3, // reduce green slowest
0,0,0.98,0,4, // reduce blue
0,0,0,1,-0.7 // fade down alpha
]);
// set up the rect that we will apply the filter to:
rect = new Rectangle(0,0,WIDTH,HEIGHT);
// set up the point that we will use:
pnt = new Point(0,0);
/* THIS CODE RUNS ONCE EVERY 5 FRAMES */
// apply the filters to the bitmap:
canvasBmp.applyFilter(canvasBmp,rect,pnt,colorF);
canvasBmp.applyFilter(canvasBmp,rect,pnt,blurF);


And click the Check Syntax it says there are no errors. But if i click the Auto Format it says that the script contains Syntax errors and it can't be processed.
Delete all of the comments within the new ColorMatrixFilter object.

[MichaelxxOA]

if you draw a rectangle on one layer, then select it and copy it, then try to paste it onto a different layer it won't let you.. or me at least.
-Michael

[stotion]

the mac projector icon is the 20 x 20 pixel icon.

Mac Dual 2.5 G5, F8, 8,0,22,0

[cruci]

The location of the tween class files has probally changed with Flash 8 will need to import it from a different location.

This is strange since I just imported one of my older files into Flash 8 and
the tweens worked fine.

Nope, they're still in mx.transitions etc. If I recall the error correctly, it wasn't that it couldn't find the class files, it was something to do with a particular method.

There were some other things changed in the class folder, there's a new FP7 and FP8 folder thing going on, with a readme to explain.

[senocular]

if you draw a rectangle on one layer, then select it and copy it, then try to paste it onto a different layer it won't let you.. or me at least.
-Michael

What OS/Hardware Michael?

[Heero Yuy]

Originally Posted by MichaelxxOA
if you draw a rectangle on one layer, then select it and copy it, then try to paste it onto a different layer it won't let you.. or me at least.
-Michael

Works fine for me, both regular mode and object mode. I'm on WinXP Pro, amd xp3000+, 1gb ram.

However, everytime I try to access document properties (i.e. change background color) it freezes.

[Sailesh]

anyone with a mac; does the flash player work as good as the it does on windows?

[senocular]

For up to date Macs (OSX 10.2+ I believe) the player should work as good if not better than it does on Windows.

[cruci]

That might be pushing it ;>

At work on my Dual 2.5 G5, sites seem to slow down much easier than at home on my AMD64 2800. It's certainly better than it was, but that's because it was so bad ;>

[senocular]

That might be pushing it ;>

At work on my Dual 2.5 G5, sites seem to slow down much easier than at home on my AMD64 2800. It's certainly better than it was, but that's because it was so bad ;>
Is that right? :-/ Well at least its better ;)

[antonin]

Line spacing has disapeared from the properties panel for a dynamic textField
How come ?

[cruci]

The button has changed, that's all. It's the last one on the row that has justify left etc - top right corner of the properties panel.

[cruci]

Just did some more testing with a project I'm working on, and it is much smoother in Safari than Firefox. I had heard they worked on the performance in Safari, and it really shows.

[pixelbath]

Input (non-embedded) text behind video with alpha does not antialias, no matter the setting. At least it works though, because masking non-embedded dynamic or input boxes still doesn't work.

Windows XP SP2 / Intel P4

[VersusMG]

I found one when i use the XML photogallery or slide show. If you have the xml in a seperate folder from the swf, or have the html file that shows the swf in a seperate folder from the swf and xml it won't display the images?

I tried it a number of ways and it will only work as long as all the files are in the same area.

[isaacrivera]

On Mac OS X.4.2, when grouped with other panes (in my case I have a group of panes composed, from top to bottom, Actions, Movie Explorer, Output, Project, and Help) the Actions pane frequently goes blank when clicked on. Selecting all ususally brings it back, but only to have it flicker and go blank again in a few minutes....

[pixelbath]

Does it say anywhere in the documentation (or mentioned anywhere else) that nine-slice scaling is for vector movieclips only? Even when vector images overlay bitmaps, the vectors will scale using 9-slice while the bitmaps use traditional scaling.

Would have been a much more useful feature if it were uniform. Kind of a bummer.

[cruci]

I saw a demo of 9-slice working with a bitmap, I found it through the MXNA blog digest thingy...

[pixelbath]

Turns out you have to pre-slice the images to get it to work with 9-slice.

While drag-and-drop of one bitmap image or even multiple images to the stage works, copy/paste does not (at least in WinXP SP2).

[icio]

ok - this is a really annoying error, and it explains why i was having the problem stated here: http://kirupa.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1659364&postcount=10

this bug is sort of complicated to get - but if you follow my instructions you should be ok:
Test the movie so that it opens in a little window Align the window such that the title-bar buttons are over the "Script Assist" button, with some of the "Script Assist" button still visible. Mouse-over the "Script Assist" button so that it is highlighter, and then move your mouse over onto the title-bar buttons - you'll notice that the button remains selected if you're doing this right - and when you click - it clicks the "Script Assist" button, instead of on the title-bar.

this error is really annoying for me !

[pixelbath]

Confirmed icio's issue.

[psykovsky]

Small glitch, if I can call it that way, in flash8 trial help... when you right-Click on its titlebar and choose maximize, it resizes window to fullscreen, that's ok... But if after that you manualy resize your window (cause restore doesnt seem to be enabled) the only option that works is minimize... When you minimize it, Maximize never shows up, only minimize and restore... :alien2:

[isaacrivera]

has anyone noticed that the example on "Working with 9-slice scaling in ActionScript" in help, when executed, do not seem to do anything different on either mode?

Well, to the bug... noticed while attempting this example, that if "help" is grouped with other panels, its content is not selectable.

Now my previously reported bug of the Actions panel flashing and going blank when grouped seems to be permanently affecting my Actions panel whether its grouped or not, rendering it completely useless!!!

I think this trial will expire before I pay for it. Another .0.1 update wait so that MM brings their damn "final" product releases out of beta!!!

[waffe]

As soon as I render a .fla that has some Action Script in it, I get this error:

**Warning** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1: Line 1: The file 'toplevel.as', which is required for type checking Action Script 2.0, could not be found. Please make sure the directory '$(LocalData)/Classes' is listed in the global class path of the Action Script Preferences.

I have copied the 'toplevel.as' file to many different directories and nothing has worked. I did how ever decide to log into and different use and when I loaded flash, it worked. Why is this? Has anyone else had this problem?

[ElectricGrandpa]

I think this trial will expire before I pay for it. Another .0.1 update wait so that MM brings their damn "final" product releases out of beta!!!

These errors are all fairly obscure... hardly beta material, at least.

[ElectricGrandpa]

Ooh here's a really picky one. Preview a project(ctrl+enter) then hit "bandwidth profiler"... Window gets big to accomodate it. Ok, now hit the "bandwidth profiler" button again. The window moves down, instead of staying with it's "registration point" where it started. Also, did anyone else notice how the preview window actually opens to the size of your file now! No more huge white stage surrounding it.

[mprzybylski]

I use dual monitors and have for a while now. In flash mx2004 i was able to put all my panels on the right side monitor and have everything on the left, only thing thta was messed up was if i put the timeline on the right monitor it didnt show up when i reloaded flash but it was ok i just pressed ctrl+alt+t and it showed up in its rightful place.

now in flash 8 i set it up the same way and ironically the timeline is the only thing that shows up where it should (on the right monitor) while everything else loads up on the left monitor and i have to move it everytime i open flash. anyone have this happen to them or know a remedy for it? thanks.

[lostinbeta]

Did you use Window/Workspace Layout/Save Current... when you moved everything to where you wanted?

Perhaps that is the problem. I don't know... I don't have dual monitors to test this.

[mprzybylski]

yeah i save my layouts but when i try to reload it it still puts it on the left monitor and not the right :\

[gwostrel]

I was having all kinds of trouble with Flash MX on my Mac so I upgraded to F8. Seemed great at first until I started working on a file with some audio and embedded video. All of a sudden I am getting save times that stretch into half an hour or more! or never, just hanging! This is on a dual 2ghz G5/3.5 gigs ram/OS X 10.4.2. The general performance other wise is OK, better, but it has never been great on the Mac. The Save thing is so bad I had to install the demo on an old XP laptop to finish the work. (1.6ghz P4/512 ram) Lets just say that Flash 8 is sweet on that laptop compared to my G5 :fight: I even like how the interface is quite different - much better use of space, quite snappy, Saves in a blink, publishes in a jiffy. WTF?!

[TheCanadian]

Also, did anyone else notice how the preview window actually opens to the size of your file now! No more huge white stage surrounding it.
I did :thumb:. You can change it to old style in the preferences as well.

My complaint. When I check for errors in the code (with the check syntax button), the output panel pops up over top the little window which say "The script contains errors." This is annoying because Flash freezes up until I click the okay button which I can't do because it is underneath the output panel.

[MistaEatRite]

I'm using a G4 iMac with 1.25GHz proc and 1gig of RAM. I just recently (yesterday actually) purchased the full Macromedia Studio 8 and loaded it all up onto the computer. I was trying to load my MX and 2004Pro extensions for Flash, Fireworks and Dreamweaver into Extension Manager and was only able to laod one: My Bytes Loaded Extension. All my other extensions kept getting this error message: Unable to create file. Is it that Macromedia has changed the way component makers need to package up their extensions or is it a bug within Extension Manager? Any guesses?

:look:

[xxlm]

I found one when i use the XML photogallery or slide show. If you have the xml in a seperate folder from the swf, or have the html file that shows the swf in a seperate folder from the swf and xml it won't display the images?

I tried it a number of ways and it will only work as long as all the files are in the same area.

Maybe it could help
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer8_security.html

[pixelprocessor]

The getTextFormat method of the TextField when used with no parameters should return an object which has properties defined that are common throughout the text.

When a textfield (tf) is constructed that contains bold/italic in additional to regular text (HTML text must be ON for this), the font property of the TextFormat returned by tf.getTextFormat() is null in FP8, and is defined correctly in FP7 and 6.

to reproduce add this code to frame1:


this.createTextField("template", 1, 100, 100, 300, 100);
template.html=true;
template.htmlText = "<font size='16' face='Trebuchet MS'>This is the <b>template</b>.</font>";
template.setTextFormat(my_fmt);
template.border=true;

this.createTextField("targ", 2, 100, 250, 300, 100);
targ.html=true;
targ.htmlText = "<font face='Times New Roman'>This is the target.</font>";
targ.setTextFormat(my_fmt);
targ.border=true;

targ.setTextFormat(template.getTextFormat());



This will copy the font property into the target textfield in FP6 and 7, but not 8.

[pixelbath]

This will copy the font property into the target textfield in FP6 and 7, but not 8.

When I actually added a getTextFormat() to your code, it worked fine for me. The fact that you're not using the method at all in your code might have something to do with it.

[spender]

erm... i think you missed the last line of pixelprocessor's code



this.createTextField("template", 1, 100, 100, 300, 100);
template.html=true;
template.htmlText = "<font size='16' face='Trebuchet MS'>This is the <b>template</b>.</font>";
template.setTextFormat(my_fmt);
template.border=true;
this.createTextField("targ", 2, 100, 250, 300, 100);
targ.html=true;
targ.htmlText = "<font face='Times New Roman'>This is the target.</font>";
targ.setTextFormat(my_fmt);
targ.border=true;
targ.setTextFormat(template.getTextFormat()); //<---pbath.. look here.
// it's getTextFormat


targ.setTextFormat(my_fmt);
and
template.setTextFormat(my_fmt);

seem irrelevant, but they are not part of the issue.

cut'n'paste the code above onto frame 1 of a new .fla and publish it for FP7.
run it in FP8, then run it in FP7. different behaviour=bug. confirmed.

nice find pixelproc!

[pixelprocessor]

As you can see in the code above I do indeed use getTextFormat and pbaths comment above is somewhat misleading, however I understand his confusion since there are a couple of stray lines of code in there regarding my_fmt... which was from an earlier test. However, remove these lines and the bug still shows.

The point here is that the bug only appears when a combination of different styles (Bold, Italic, Regular) are used in the text field on which getTextFormat is invoked.

If you paste the code below into the current flash 8, the bug will show.

this.createTextField("template", 1, 100, 100, 300, 100);
template.html=true;
template.htmlText = "<font size='16' face='Trebuchet MS'>This is the<b>template</b></font>";
template.border=true;

this.createTextField("targ", 2, 100, 250, 300, 100);
targ.html=true;
targ.htmlText = "<font face='Times New Roman'>This is the target.";
targ.border=true;

targ.setTextFormat(template.getTextFormat()); //its getTextFormat!

NB the use of getTextFormat in the last line.

The point here is that the bug only appears when a combination of different styles (Bold, Italic, Regular) are used in the text field on which getTextFormat is invoked.

If you paste the code above into the current flash 8, the bug will show.

[Dazzer]

Sorry for hijacking the thread.

Not sure if this is a bug or due to my incompetent programming skills but... anyway

I have a moveiclip on the stage, and then apply a filter RUNTIME through Actionscript in frame 1.

In frame 3, i have GotoAndPlay(2), so it loops between Frames 2 and 3. But when running the filter doesn't show.

if you slow down the frame speed low enough, you'll see that the filter IS applied in frame one, but then it disappears after the loop.

Here's how to recreate this.

Load new document
length 3 frames
Create a movieclip of any shape, named Clip
create new layer , actionscript 3 key frames
frame 1,


import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
var filter:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(100, 20, 3);
var filterArray:Array = new Array();
filterArray.push(filter);
Clip.filters = filterArray;


frame 3

gotoAndPlay(2)

change the frame speed to 1
Run movie.


The only workaround i found was that you had to place whatever is in frame 1 into frame 2, the start of the loop

Any Comments? isit just something i'm doing wrong? or is this just how Flash works?

Dazzer

[Thy]

Hi, I think I've found a bug (either that or I'm losing my mind)

When you have a textfield, and you use a image as a link (<a ref="http://www.kirupa.com"><img src="my_mc"></a>) it works as it should but if you embed the font you're using, it won't work(in flash player 8), it will only select the text.

Now, before I posted this msg, i tried the same thing in flash MX2004 it works, I called a webpage a a javascript function in the html...

Peaseeeeee someone try this as it's driving me insane...

I'll post a sample swf

[pixelbath]

Indeed didn't see the last getTextFormat(). Sorry about that.

The context I was inserting getTextFormat() was to get the format of the first box and apply it to the second. Hard to remember if that's exactly how I used it, was right before Rita evacuation.

[pixelbath]

Not sure if this is a bug or due to my incompetent programming skills but... anyway


Followed your directions, including framerate. Worked fine for me. Your programming skills don't seem to be lacking at all. Nice blur.

[rayishu]

I CANT IMPORT ANYTHING THIS IS GAE, I TRIED IMPORTING A COUPLE OF MP3S THAT WORKED IN FLASH MX 2004 BUT THEY DONT WORK IT SAYS "one or more files werent importated because there was an error reading them"

WDF

I CHOULDNT ALSO IMPORT .AI .SWFT and I NEED TO IMPROT .SWFT!!!

[danielson]

Followed your directions, including framerate. Worked fine for me. Your programming skills don't seem to be lacking at all. Nice blur.

I tried it and it didn't work. I changed it from 3 frames to 2 frames and it worked.

[Sliker_Hawk]

Does anyone else have this problem..
When I click on blank space in the (default) toolbar on the left (as oposed to a button) Flash crashes.

I had the same problem with Flash 8 and Flash MX even after re-installing windows.
Just wondering, because I havn't seen anything like this reported anywhere else.

[snowite]

i have been developing with the flash 8 version trial prof.

I noticed that in a previous file that i opened in V8, the dynamic text was bold in the old version. when i made changes to the dynamic text in V8, it unbolded the text but left it very blurred and hard to read. I have been looking for a solutions for a few days, nothing seems to work. the size of the dymanic text seems to make the situation worse. 10 and 12 point font are still blurry at best.

i tried to make the text bmp or jpeg with even worse results. the text is very blurry or not clear at all in these modes, unless the text is really large.

i would love it if flash could provide a crisper text. (The animation -antalias) seems to provide the best text so far. everythign else is somewhat blurry. (i am resorting to using photoshop to fix the problem.)

[Sliker_Hawk]

Have you made sure the text is on pixels?
Because Flash is vector, it lets you place things on point-pixels, sort of.
Make sure the x and y values are something like 5.0 instead of 5.2.

[Ouzo]

Hi,

When using 'embedded (synchronized with timeline)' AVIs, Flash 8 suddenly lost track of those clips. When exporting, Flash freezed for 5 minutes, after which gives a note of "Error exporting movie. Flash 8 run out of memory" etc.

When checking the properties of embedded videos in Library and changing to 'Video (Actionscript-controlled)' and then clicking cancel, Flash suddenly works like charm again.

This was really annoying bug, 'cause finding the source was extremely difficult. This just suddenly happened and first I had no idea why Flash suddenly freezed. Then narroying down a bit by bit, I managed to target the error into these clips.

If someone has any similar experienced let me know, this one cost me 2 hours.

Cheers,
Ouzo

[newhopekenny]

Seriously. If I'm looking for formatting options for text...and search for textFormat...I get ten-million documents that CONTAIN the string I searched for, instead of just the entity documentation. Every instance of my search query is HIGHLIGHTED in some butt-ugly yellow.

Maybe I've gone retarded (and to be honest I didn't dig that deeply), but I can't seem to turn this horse-pucky, shenanigan-fest off.

I want my standard help system back! If I search for "textFormat", I want the AS language reference document for TEXTFORMAT, not every f*cking entry that has the string I searched for highlighted search-engine-results-style in yellow.

Cripes. :crazy:

[Norton]

I tried to update an Access database with information sent from a Flash 8 mc, but it didn't work. I could response.write (from an asp file) the information that was being passed but it would not let itself be inserted into the database.

I then changed my export settings to Flash 7, and then it worked. Is Flash 8 exporting data in a different way than 7? A bug?

[spender]

I tried to update an Access database with information sent from a Flash 8 mc, but it didn't work.

details are a bit thin on the ground here. what r u trying to do? databinding? updating access databases is not a known feature of flash. You must be doing more than what u describe.

[renuance]

I crash every time I open the Actions Panel.
Any thoughts?
;P

[latcho]

When I have a static textfield in an mc, which hold the textfield and a background square, and I make this mc a button via AS mc.onRelease,
and when this mc has a glow applied via the properties-filtersa menu,
WELL then when I enter the frame which holds this mc, and if the mouse cursor is above the mc(textfield), the text will be dissapeared !
any suggestions other than having another mouse position :) ?
the text won't come back when moving the mouse.
Other than that, if the mouse weren't above the textfield on mc initialization
the text would be there and stay there, oven on roll over.

PS: the mc is no freaky button, it's a super simple 1 frame mc with an onrelease.

[AlExAkE]

Does anyone else have this problem..
When I click on blank space in the (default) toolbar on the left (as oposed to a button) Flash crashes.

I had the same problem with Flash 8 and Flash MX even after re-installing windows.
Just wondering, because I havn't seen anything like this reported anywhere else.

Hey I have the same problem ? When I click on a empty space on the toolbar the Flash 8 crashes! Why ? Anyone knows any solutions? I reisntal my WinXp and installed it again. Then it worked fine. After I added all the drivers, microsoft updates and my other software the Flash 8 start crashing again. Anyone knows what is the deal ? Please help!
Here are few screanshots:
pic1: http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/2720/crash13zq.th.jpg (http://img367.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crash13zq.jpg) pic2:http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/6263/crash28nd.th.jpg (http://img365.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crash28nd.jpg)
pic3: http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/7122/crash35ao.th.jpg (http://img365.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crash35ao.jpg)
Thanks

[rouenacanoe]

im having a problem with the flash player im suspecting. whenever i visit a flash site that plays music, then close the browser, the music continues playing until i forcibly end all IE processes. i thought it might be IE but its only happened since the upgrade to 8

[latcho]

i forgot to mention:
there is a visible=0 and onEnterFrame->visible=1 around all this
example:
www.greencollective.nl/temp/FLASHFXMOUSEBUG.fla



When I have a static textfield in an mc, which hold the textfield and a background square, and I make this mc a button via AS mc.onRelease,
and when this mc has a glow applied via the properties-filtersa menu,
WELL then when I enter the frame which holds this mc, and if the mouse cursor is above the mc(textfield), the text will be dissapeared !
any suggestions other than having another mouse position :) ?
the text won't come back when moving the mouse.
Other than that, if the mouse weren't above the textfield on mc initialization
the text would be there and stay there, oven on roll over.

PS: the mc is no freaky button, it's a super simple 1 frame mc with an onrelease.

[ghoyer]

If you drag a large zoomed movieclip with many vectors (like a map background) Flash 8 will gobble up memory like mad (how about 200MB / minute with constant dragging). Using the new Flash 8 scrollRect technique has the same leaky effect. This problem did not occur in Flash player 7. I have reported this as a bug to MM. I was hoping Flash 8's new bitmap caching techniques would actually improve performance when dragging large zoomed maps around but just the opposite has occured. I really really need this to be fixed.

My suspicion is that the problem has something to do with the new garbage collection mechanism and/or some kind of behind the scenes attempt at automatic bitmap caching but whatever the cause, the result is a memory leak that does not go away until flash 8 crashes (standalone or plugin). It is easy to reproduce and does not happen on flash player 7 (stand-alone or plugin).

The memory leak occurs when dragging a large movie clip (2400x2800) with many vectors, like in a street map background. When the movie clip is at 100% (_xscale = 100) you can drag the clip (using startDrag and stopDrag) all day long with no change in memory consumption (as viewed in Task Manager).

However, if you zoom in on the movie clip to say 600% (_xscale = 600) and then drag you'll see your memory consumption jump every few seconds while you are dragging. Interestingly, just dragging the mouse back and forth over the same area without releasing the mouse will cause flash 8 to continue to allocate memory until you stop dragging. The fact that any amount of zoom causes the clip to exceed the magic 2880x2880 bitmap threshold makes me suspect flash is trying to convert part of the vector to a bitmap and cache it behind the scenes. Also, the more zoomed in you are the faster the memory gets consumed. More concerning is that the memory never seems to get freed up.

As a point of reference, in the flash 7 player no additional memory was consumed by dragging the same movie clip regardless of the zoom or _xscale.

Flash has thus far proved to be a great platform for building large map based GIS apps so I hope this is just a bug that can be quickly resolved or I'm in serious trouble.

I have attached the .swf for a simple test that reproduces the problem. Is anyone else seeing the same memory consumption that I am?

[pixelbath]

Interestingly, just dragging the mouse back and forth over the same area without releasing the mouse will cause flash 8 to continue to allocate memory until you stop dragging. The fact that any amount of zoom causes the clip to exceed the magic 2880x2880 bitmap threshold makes me suspect flash is trying to convert part of the vector to a bitmap and cache it behind the scenes. Also, the more zoomed in you are the faster the memory gets consumed. More concerning is that the memory never seems to get freed up.
Holy crap! Zoomed in at 3x each drag produced an additional 3-7MB of used memory (dragging ~100px). Yeah, I'd say some work on the cache routines is in order.

Though the memory seems to have freed back up after closing the movie, I wasn't paying attention to what it was before I opened the movie. So after dragging 3 times I used 20MB. Ouch.

[Brand0n]

Flash 8 is working beautifully for me except for one intermitent problem:

Every few times (no specific number) that I do a preview (CTRL+Enter), the movie preview is hidden. I have tried both the option where it pops up the player in a window and where it shows it in a tabbed view like on MX. It happens on both. And since I have audio that loads on start-up, I know that the movie got created, but it's nowhere to be physically seen. The only way I can get out of it is to close Flash altogether and come back in. This is on an XP system.

Anyone seen this one?

[psykovsky]

OK, here is the code my friend wrote for testing purposes, it actualy loops nine times and adds 0.1 to variable kintamasis so it could check logical operations : ">" "==" "<" :

_root.test = 0;
_root.clickcount = 0;
function funkcija(kintamasis) {
_root.test += kintamasis;
_root.clickcount++;
trace("(_root.test):"+_root.test+" # ("+_root.clickcount+"*0.1):"+(_root.clickcount*0.1)+" :: (>)"+(_root.test>(_root.clickcount*0.1))+" (==)"+(_root.test == (_root.clickcount*0.1))+" (<)"+(_root.test<(_root.clickcount*0.1)));
}
for (i=1; i<10; i++) {
funkcija(0.1);
}

Ande here is the results:

(_root.test):0.1 # (1*0.1):0.1 :: (>)false (==)true (<)false
(_root.test):0.2 # (2*0.1):0.2 :: (>)false (==)true (<)false
(_root.test):0.3 # (3*0.1):0.3 :: (>)false (==)true (<)false
(_root.test):0.4 # (4*0.1):0.4 :: (>)false (==)true (<)false
(_root.test):0.5 # (5*0.1):0.5 :: (>)false (==)true (<)false
(_root.test):0.6 # (6*0.1):0.6 :: (>)false (==)false (<)true
(_root.test):0.7 # (7*0.1):0.7 :: (>)false (==)false (<)true
(_root.test):0.8 # (8*0.1):0.8 :: (>)false (==)false (<)true
(_root.test):0.9 # (9*0.1):0.9 :: (>)false (==)false (<)true

It's strange when 0.6 == 0.6 returns false.. insted 0.6 < 0.6 returns true.
:jail: :jail: :jail:

[rriggin]

I'm having the wierdest problem with FP8 on my powerbook G4. The player works fine for most sites, but when I try to look at the SimpleViewer gallery on my own site, the darn thing won't work. I've tried everything that I can think of. It works fine for other sites, and others have had no problem viewing this page across multiple operating systems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The page in questions is here:

ryanriggin.com/sv/index.php

-click on one of the galleries and at that point, i get prompted to download the player, which i've already done.

I've even tried looking at other SimpleViewer galleries on this machine, and that works. I'm stumped.

ryan
AIM: riggin38

[david brent]

I'm using a P4 2.53 Ghz, 1Gb ram, XP Pro.
I've had this problem once before; reolved it by re-making the whole movie clip and it worked fine. However now that it's happened again I was wondering whether it's something that should be addressed and not just me.
Using a very simple mask to mask two layers (a scrolling text box on the first layer, and the buttons to move the text on the second), I end up with transparent text. I can tell that the text is there, as when I test the movie and hover the mouse over where the text should be, the cursor turns to a text symbol. Also when you select the invisible text, you can copy and paste the text!
Another strange factor is that the buttons remain perfectly visible. I removed the animation for the buttons (the only reason for having them on seperate layers) and masked only one layer with both the text box and buttons on it, however the text still stays transparent and the buttons visible. It sounds like a bug, but it could just be a simple mistake on my part, as it has happened once before.

[david brent]

After doing a little more research I found this article:

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_13987

Sorry if any of you have been trying to work out what's been going on!

Cheers

[emolen]

sorry if it's been posted but here it is again. just couldn't read through the entire thing for lack of time but...
regarding all uses of attach bitmapdata or attempting to use the dispose.bitmapdata
enjoy your memroy leak no more


http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/10/major_flash_pla.html

[mediablitz]

My .swf file will not show up at all in Safari. It shows up in IE, Firefox and Opera. Safari just has a big black box. So I tried re-installing the plug-in and then even the flash player started acting odd. Some of my text would be missing in my Loaded movies and at other times, some logos would be gone.

Flash MX 2004 Pro and 7 were great. However, I published my files as Flash 7 and still no joy.

What gives? Any ideas?

Mediablitz.

[EasyTarget]

I've looked over the list and haven't seen anything similar (here or elsewhere)

I have a pre-existing web-to-print solution that generates custom vector based product sheets through Flash and a web browser. It was originally compiled for Flash version 5 and has worked flawlessly through all Flash player versions until Flash 8. While the result still displays accurately in the browser, the mask fails when printing the output.

Has anyone seen this? Is this a known bug with layer masks in Flash 8?

I have provided more details and steps to reproduce the issue below.

Flash Player Version 8.022
Browser: safari 1.3.1, firefox 1.0.4 on mac 10.3.9 & 10.4 AND IE and firefox on windows XP home.

Symptom: When printing through Flash (either via right-click or in-movie button calling print command) the layer mask effect is ignored.

Steps to reproduce:
- Start with a new document
- Create a large blue square graphic on layer 1
- Create new layer 2 above layer 1
- Create red circle graphic smaller than the blue square but completely overlapping the blue square
- Right click on layer 2 (red circle) and select mask option
- Compile movie
RESULT: the movie will show a small blue circle - which is expected
- Right-click and select print
RESULT: only the large blue square is printed. The red circle and its use as a mask are ignored.

I have also submitted this to Macromedia - call me cynical, but somehow i think people here will be a bit more responsive.

Thanks all.
Daniel

[Barn]

It's strange when 0.6 == 0.6 returns false.. insted 0.6 < 0.6 returns true.
I would guess that is a result of Flash internally using 32-bit signed integers.

Try this, and alternately commenting out the lines that call the rounding function -- the results are quite interesting (variable names shortened):


nbrT = 0;
nbrC = 0;
function fncRound(nbrVal){
return Math.round(nbrVal*10)/10;
}
function funkcija(nbrIcr) {
nbrT += nbrIcr;
nbrC++;
nbrM = nbrC*0.1;
nbrT = fncRound(nbrT);
nbrM = fncRound(nbrM);
trace("(nbrT): "+nbrT+" | nbrC: "+nbrC+" | nbrM: "+nbrM+" | nbrM:"+nbrM+" | (>)"+(nbrT>nbrM)+" (==)"+(nbrT == nbrM)+" (<)"+(nbrT<nbrM));
}
for (i=1; i<10; i++) {
funkcija(0.1);
}


Oh, and this is not an issue with Flash 8 -- it exists in Flash 5, MX, and MX 2004, as well (not sure about earlier versions).

[pointer]

I Just got something bugy with my text in a normal textfield.

When i am parsing data in flash from an XML file with this above in the file.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
and i am trying to read this Line:


<description><![CDATA[The List: <b>bold</b><li>ITEM 1</li><li>ITEM 2</li><li>ITEM 3</li> , >, &, " and ' with no problem!]]></description>


Flash will trace the complete line good as shown.

When i embed my Font, Doesnt metter wich Font, It will not show the text bold in bold.


But
Without EMBEDDING the Font it will set the text BOLD in BOLD!
==================================================

Futher info in AS :
description.html = true;
description.htmlText = Here the description text from the xmlfile
description.autoSize = true;


FIXED

Had 2 make 2 textfields,
1 with bold enabled + embed (as a dummy textfield)
1 withouth the bold but with embed.

(both with same font offcourse)
My mistake:

[EasyTarget]

Masks on nested clips are disabled when loaded into another clip.

clip 1 - two symbols. use symbol1.setMask("symbol2")

clip 2 - symbol3 on frame 1 this.loadMovie("clip1")

clip1 - displays properly on own, but when viewing clip2, mask is disabled on embedded clip1

---

This is getting ridiculous. Did they even test masking at all.

By the way, I really need to find a way around this or we have to dsiable support to anyone using Flash 8 or greater until we switch to pdflib for our web-to-print solution.

This sucks. Really sucks.

[injoy]

Whenever I rotate a textfield 90 degrees and then publish the file, it shows up blank. The only way I've found around this is to embed the characters, even if it's a system font. (IIRC, in Flash 7, non-embedded fonts simply looked very poor; apparently, in Flash 8, they disappear altogether!) Embedding them doesn't seem to *always* work, but it does sometimes. It's very confusing, and eminently reproducible, at least on my machine.

[EasyTarget]

Masks on nested clips are disabled when loaded into another clip.

clip 1 - two symbols. use symbol1.setMask("symbol2")

clip 2 - symbol3 on frame 1 this.loadMovie("clip1")

clip1 - displays properly on own, but when viewing clip2, mask is disabled on embedded clip1

---


Found a solution for the problem I was seeing with setMask. I needed to employ a preloader clip on the loading clip and the child clip containing and employing the mask.

For our solution it meant that any parent clip containing a child calling setMask AND the child clip containing the setMask action script itself AND the grandchild being affected by setMask clip had to ALL be fully loaded before the setMask attribute could be called in the child clip.

Essentially everyone had to be at the party before we could start serving punch - which was very tricky to do with the number of guests we had moving on and off stage.

But, in the end, my client has their dynamic quote printing system back and I can start growing back the hair I've been pulling out!

http://www.bathysphere.us/daniel/project_view.taf?_function=view&category_uid=10&project_uid=41
( an overview in case you're interested)

[Barn]

Whenever I rotate a textfield 90 degrees and then publish the file, it shows up blank. The only way I've found around this is to embed the characters, even if it's a system font. (IIRC, in Flash 7, non-embedded fonts simply looked very poor; apparently, in Flash 8, they disappear altogether!) Embedding them doesn't seem to *always* work, but it does sometimes. It's very confusing, and eminently reproducible, at least on my machine.
That is not new in Flash 8. It may be that you are thinking of how you were seeing them when running Test Movie which, in earlier versions, did not accurately reflect how the movie would appear when in a browser session or stand-alone player on a non-local system (without the fonts).

[injoy]

That is not new in Flash 8. It may be that you are thinking of how you were seeing them when running Test Movie which, in earlier versions, did not accurately reflect how the movie would appear when in a browser session or stand-alone player on a non-local system (without the fonts).

No, I don't mean that it now shows without the fonts -- I mean the entire text field *disappears* altogether, and only when rotated 90°. It works fine when it's not rotated, as it did in Flash 7. And sometimes it even disappears (when rotated) even if the fonts are embedded, although re-embedding them seems to fix the problem (even if it shows the glyphs as highlighted, clicking again to embed them fixes it). It's weird.

[ritsu]

I just created my first Flash 8 video stream, and the playback buttons don't show online, though it shows on my local drive.

Is there something I need to install on the server side? Or did I save the FLV files incorrectly? I reinstalled OSX Flash 8 and still can't see it.

http://www.ritsu.com/heroes.html

The video plays fine, it's the playback buttons that are not showing.

Thanks in advance

[psyh]

I was having all kinds of trouble with Flash MX on my Mac so I upgraded to F8. Seemed great at first until I started working on a file with some audio and embedded video. All of a sudden I am getting save times that stretch into half an hour or more! or never, just hanging! This is on a dual 2ghz G5/3.5 gigs ram/OS X 10.4.2. The general performance other wise is OK, better, but it has never been great on the Mac. The Save thing is so bad I had to install the demo on an old XP laptop to finish the work. (1.6ghz P4/512 ram) Lets just say that Flash 8 is sweet on that laptop compared to my G5 :fight: I even like how the interface is quite different - much better use of space, quite snappy, Saves in a blink, publishes in a jiffy. WTF?!

I've been experiencing the EXACT same problem. :*( I'm on a dual 1.8ghz/2gb ram/osx 10.4.3 so I don't think it's my computer that's slow.

I switched to Flash 8 because I was working on a project that requires audio and embedded video for syncing animation, and mx2004 kept crashing during publish when I embed more than 2 video clips (which is not unreasonable, IMO). They weren't even big clips, maybe ~500kb per clip. Macromedia, don't fix one thing and then break something else. :d:

Anyone else having the same problem? It would be nice to know how prevalent this "bug" is.

[Uli]

Servere issue here. Dynamicly loaded txt as htmlText put in a dynamicly created textField within a MC that also contains dynamicly loaded jpegs into containers. I add a blurFilter to the MC when it's beeing moved (by a drag button). The MC is masked by 1 only mask. I have a lot of glitches like the text blinks, the masking doesn't work equal for txt and bitmaps (covered zone simply isn't the same!), i'm losing the text sometimes (blinks)... The bug varies on a quality of the blur filter...

[cmart]

Only looked through first couple pages, but Flash 8 Professional crashes quite frequently when I try to close the .swf window while testing movie. It happens pretty rpedictably whenever I'm working with XML. I'm thinking that maybe Flash is having a conflict with the standalone Flashplayer 7 which is still on my g5. Running OS 10.4.2. Anyone else having this issue?

[RedLine]

I just created my first Flash 8 video stream, and the playback buttons don't show online, though it shows on my local drive.

Is there something I need to install on the server side? Or did I save the FLV files incorrectly? I reinstalled OSX Flash 8 and still can't see it.

http://www.ritsu.com/heroes.html

The video plays fine, it's the playback buttons that are not showing.

Thanks in advance
The same here. The playback comands desapear online. Win XP Pro.
I tried save as Flash 7...didnt work too.


(first post...regards from Brazil)

[sed|thh]

Just did some more testing with a project I'm working on, and it is much smoother in Safari than Firefox. I had heard they worked on the performance in Safari, and it really shows.

swf files run slower in Firefox than IE for me :diss:

[icio]

That's a firefox problem though, not an IE problem.

[h2o]

Well, I have noticed that ever since installing the Flash 8 browser plug-in on my pc...that a swf that was set to full browser, is now cut off on the sides...for some reason I can't get it to fit inside the browser???

It is the browser player problem with Flash 8 plug-in. My swf worked fine when I viewed it in a browser with the Flash 7 Player plug-in. This sucks

[nallode]

hi there
i just had a problem in loading variables the old way like.

<param name="movie" value="test.swf?localVar=Macromedia Flash Player environment" />

do you guys have an idea how to fix this problem.

Regards

Nallode



No application is bug free on first release, especially one as large scale as Flash. There are bound to be issues in both the Flash IDE as well as the Flash player. If you find one, let us know. A list will be kept here to keep everyone aware of known issues and hopefully workarounds can be found to deal with them until Macromedia corrects them. Remember, for any problem you encounter, let Macromedia know so that they may be aware of it and hopefully find a solution.
http://www.macromedia.com/go/wish/Also see Macromedia's
Flash 8 Emerging Issues Technote (http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_18889)
More Technotes (http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/more_issues.html)
Please post bugs regarding full release (not Beta) software. It is helpful if you can repeat the steps used to reproduce this bug and what system you were using when it happened (OS, preferable hardware setup)

To see what Flash Player version you have, use the following:
Find Your Flash Player Version (http://www.senocular.com/pub/flash/flashplayerversion.swf)
Find the current available version from Macromedia here:
Download the Latest Flash Player (http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash)

[booler]

<param name="FlashVars" value="&id=21" />
<embed ... FlashVars="&id=21" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" swLiveConnect=true />

stole this from another post but that should do the trick I used it in a php script and it worked great

[trabus]

I've looked over the list and haven't seen anything similar (here or elsewhere)

I have a pre-existing web-to-print solution that generates custom vector based product sheets through Flash and a web browser. It was originally compiled for Flash version 5 and has worked flawlessly through all Flash player versions until Flash 8. While the result still displays accurately in the browser, the mask fails when printing the output.

Has anyone seen this? Is this a known bug with layer masks in Flash 8?

I have provided more details and steps to reproduce the issue below.

Flash Player Version 8.022
Browser: safari 1.3.1, firefox 1.0.4 on mac 10.3.9 & 10.4 AND IE and firefox on windows XP home.

Symptom: When printing through Flash (either via right-click or in-movie button calling print command) the layer mask effect is ignored.

Steps to reproduce:
- Start with a new document
- Create a large blue square graphic on layer 1
- Create new layer 2 above layer 1
- Create red circle graphic smaller than the blue square but completely overlapping the blue square
- Right click on layer 2 (red circle) and select mask option
- Compile movie
RESULT: the movie will show a small blue circle - which is expected
- Right-click and select print
RESULT: only the large blue square is printed. The red circle and its use as a mask are ignored.

I have also submitted this to Macromedia - call me cynical, but somehow i think people here will be a bit more responsive.

Thanks all.
Daniel

I am experiencing this exact issue. My employer has a series of online printable stories, all of which have masked graphics. These stories have been displaying onscreen and printing properly with all of the previous releases of the Flash Player. Since the introduction of the Flash 8 player, the stories display properly onscreen, but completely ignore any masking when printing, which results in some of the graphics intruding into the text.

I have not found any sort of solution to the masking issue, but I'm at the point where I'm about to make an unmasked layer with a frame above the graphics as a workaround. Unfortunately I don't have time to wait for Macromedia to fix it.

However, I will also submit a bug report, as this severely affects my employer's product. Hopefully they will find a solution.

[Barn]

I am experiencing this exact issue. My employer has a series of online printable stories, all of which have masked graphics. These stories have been displaying onscreen and printing properly with all of the previous releases of the Flash Player. Since the introduction of the Flash 8 player, the stories display properly onscreen, but completely ignore any masking when printing, which results in some of the graphics intruding into the text.

I have not found any sort of solution to the masking issue, but I'm at the point where I'm about to make an unmasked layer with a frame above the graphics as a workaround. Unfortunately I don't have time to wait for Macromedia to fix it.

However, I will also submit a bug report, as this severely affects my employer's product. Hopefully they will find a solution.
Yeah, yeah. It's all in your head.

;)

(for the sake of those who are not in the know; Trabus and I worked for the same company about whom he speaks)

[trabus]

Yeah, yeah. It's all in your head.

;)

(for the sake of those who are not in the know; Trabus and I worked for the same company about whom he speaks)
Hehe. :)

So I just submitted a bug report to macromedia:

Printing from flash player 8 using print() is ignoring masks when printing. The masked graphics display properly on screen, but when printed, any mask layers are ignored.

To reproduce using Flash MX:
1. create a new movie.
2. create a square (any color) on the first layer.
3. create a new layer above the first layer.
4. on the new second layer create a small circle (any color) directly over the square. (the circle will be masking the square so make sure that the circle is smaller than the square).
5. convert the second layer to a mask (right-click the layer and select 'Mask')
6. create a new layer above the second layer.
7. place the following code on the frame:
print (_level0,"bmovie");
8. publish the movie and open the resulting html page. The movie will automatically execute the print command, so select a printer and print the movie. You will see that even though the movie displays the circle mask, the printed result does not and shows the entire square, completely ignoring the mask layer.

[Active-webdesig]

Hey fellaz

I metioned the problem that flash is having with its components.
I'm using a scrollpane to view an MC using linkage. The MC contains a large accordion containing text. The size of the MC larger than the scrollpane. It all works fine but the strange thing is that it adds a blank space at the bottom which I didnt made myself.
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5685/space8fd.th.jpg (http://img11.imageshack.us/my.php?image=space8fd.jpg)
Ive experienced this problem a couple of times now and it sometimes seem to suddenly disappear C:-) which is very strange.


I also mentioned a stramnge thing when swf files are externally loaded into a scrollpane. The scrollpane just crashes now and then popping out all of the text.
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/491/popout1ee.th.jpg (http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=popout1ee.jpg)
I might become crazy:hangover: or its just a bug...

anybody knows how to resolve these things?

[natronp]

in flash 8 (mac osx 10.3.9) you cannot tab between the r, g & b color fields in the color picker/mixer... annoying.

[nih]

I constantly get the misdated ASO file error that informs me that my unique class is already in use.

The best solution is to wait a couple of minutes, then it's fine again.

I never saw this problem until I relocated my working files onto my fileserver, so I believe the problem is the result of the one computer being slightly ahead of the other one.

Eric Lin has written a page about this issue, but I've misplaced the link. Try google if you want to know more.

[SylvanLady]

Is anyone seeing inconsistencies with type?

I am on a PowerBook G4, Mac OSX 10.3.9, using Flash Professional 8.0.

I have the body type set to 14pt, the line spacing set to the default -- 2pt -- and the space between paragraphs is simply a carriage return with a smaller type size -- 8pt.

I am using the Helvetica series -- 65 Helvetica Medium.

I have taken a screenshot of one section of my page from the flash stage/work space:

http://www.salengerconcepts.com/working3/images/flashworkng.jpg

And from the publish preview:

http://www.salengerconcepts.com/working3/images/flashpreview.jpg

Ideas? Comments?

SL

[NiñoScript]

MovieClipLoader crashes Flash if the movie didn't fully load

[ghoyer]

Holy crap! Zoomed in at 3x each drag produced an additional 3-7MB of used memory (dragging ~100px). Yeah, I'd say some work on the cache routines is in order.

Though the memory seems to have freed back up after closing the movie, I wasn't paying attention to what it was before I opened the movie. So after dragging 3 times I used 20MB. Ouch.
Just to let everyone know, the memory leak I reported has been FIXED in the latest 8.5 alpha release (8.5.0.212) that is available here:

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?event=custom&sku=RC00184&e=labs


Note: to get the stand-alone version you'll have to install the full Flex 2 Builder beta.

[warhero]

Mac OSX Keyboard Shortcuts Break.

if you have problems with the keyboard shortcuts breaking and becoming unresponsive, try this:

first heres how they break:

1 create a vector rectangle on the stage.
2 select it
3 select the width in the properties panel
4 type a letter in. say F
5 press TAB

you will now get an invalid size and position dialog, you now broke the keyboard shortcuts.

hers how to fix it:

1 create a vector rectangle on the stage.
2 select the rectangle you just made.
3 go to the properties panel.
4 select the width (just select don't change it)
5 then press TAB.

you should have successfully tabbed to the next input field (height). now your keyboard shortcuts will be back in business!


http://www.smithaaronlee.net/archives/74

[latcho]

http://www.greencollective.nl/temp/FLASHFXMOUSEBUG.fla


When I have a static textfield in an mc, which hold the textfield and a background square, and I make this mc a button via AS mc.onRelease,
and when this mc has a glow applied via the properties-filtersa menu,
WELL then when I enter the frame which holds this mc, and if the mouse cursor is above the mc(textfield), the text will be dissapeared !
any suggestions other than having another mouse position :) ?
the text won't come back when moving the mouse.
Other than that, if the mouse weren't above the textfield on mc initialization
the text would be there and stay there, oven on roll over.

PS: the mc is no freaky button, it's a super simple 1 frame mc with an onrelease.

[fideldonson]

Another textfield-bug i encountered today:

removing a textfield on onSetFocus () - i just had to try it :-)

try the following in a blank movie
_root.createTextField("error",_root.getNextHighestDepth(),10,10,200,50);
_root.error._visible=true;
_root.error.text="this is the error message";
_root.error.autoSize="left";
_root.error.background=true;
_root.error.border=true;
_root.error.selectable=true;
_root.error.backgroundColor="0xFFFFFF";
_root.error.borderColor = 0x000000;

_root.error.onSetFocus=function(){
_root.error.removeTextField();
}

[Sopko Ladislav]

Hi, finally i found some one with the same problem. Seems that we are working in very similar projects. I,m doing WebGIS solution with flash like viewer
And have exactly the same problem.

[Sopko Ladislav]

If you drag a large zoomed movieclip with many vectors (like a map background) Flash 8 will gobble up memory like mad (how about 200MB / minute with constant dragging). Using the new Flash 8 scrollRect technique has the same leaky effect. This problem did not occur in Flash player 7. I have reported this as a bug to MM. I was hoping Flash 8's new bitmap caching techniques would actually improve performance when dragging large zoomed maps around but just the opposite has occured. I really really need this to be fixed.

My suspicion is that the problem has something to do with the new garbage collection mechanism and/or some kind of behind the scenes attempt at automatic bitmap caching but whatever the cause, the result is a memory leak that does not go away until flash 8 crashes (standalone or plugin). It is easy to reproduce and does not happen on flash player 7 (stand-alone or plugin).

The memory leak occurs when dragging a large movie clip (2400x2800) with many vectors, like in a street map background. When the movie clip is at 100% (_xscale = 100) you can drag the clip (using startDrag and stopDrag) all day long with no change in memory consumption (as viewed in Task Manager).

However, if you zoom in on the movie clip to say 600% (_xscale = 600) and then drag you'll see your memory consumption jump every few seconds while you are dragging. Interestingly, just dragging the mouse back and forth over the same area without releasing the mouse will cause flash 8 to continue to allocate memory until you stop dragging. The fact that any amount of zoom causes the clip to exceed the magic 2880x2880 bitmap threshold makes me suspect flash is trying to convert part of the vector to a bitmap and cache it behind the scenes. Also, the more zoomed in you are the faster the memory gets consumed. More concerning is that the memory never seems to get freed up.

As a point of reference, in the flash 7 player no additional memory was consumed by dragging the same movie clip regardless of the zoom or _xscale.

Flash has thus far proved to be a great platform for building large map based GIS apps so I hope this is just a bug that can be quickly resolved or I'm in serious trouble.

I have attached the .swf for a simple test that reproduces the problem. Is anyone else seeing the same memory consumption that I am?


Have exactly the same problem. Lets push MM will help us.

[talonofdarkness]

hey i have found a possible bug/problem. I am making an rpg in flash (like so many others) and have wirtten my battle system.

The problem is sometimes the functions i have written will work, other times they just stop or dont work at all, i have added in trace but yet it doesnt help find the problem so i think ti might be a problem (once i managed to attack the enemy twice and then enemy attack me once then ti got stuck, other times i cant even attack once)


does anyone know whats wrong?

[Xoc]

Servere issue here. Dynamicly loaded txt as htmlText put in a dynamicly created textField within a MC that also contains dynamicly loaded jpegs into containers. I add a blurFilter to the MC when it's beeing moved (by a drag button). The MC is masked by 1 only mask. I have a lot of glitches like the text blinks, the masking doesn't work equal for txt and bitmaps (covered zone simply isn't the same!), i'm losing the text sometimes (blinks)... The bug varies on a quality of the blur filter...

I had a problem similar to this, but making sure the text and the mask were aligned to pixels solved it.

[Xoc]

I have a Flash 8 application that runs fine on Win XP, and a G4 Mac but not on Intel-Macs. Its a bit hard for me to test, because I don't have an Intel-Mac, but I've seen the screen shots from the customer who does. He has applied the latest updates to his machine.

One problem is that bitmapped dynamic text comes out anti-aliased, and blue! Compiling for v7 and embedding the font fixed it.

Even weirder, and more annoying:

I have a routine that loads a jpg into a mc, then fades it in by raising the alpha up to 100. This works fine, except on the intel mac where the picture takes longer to load, but then just pops into view without the fade. The code looks like it works to me, and it DOES work on every other machine tested except the Intel-Mac. I've seen this _alpha bug reported elsewhere (Ward Ruth's comment here: http://www.kaourantin.net/2006/02/universal-binaries.html).

[garyzero]

Has anyone noticed movies saved for player 6 not working in player 8 or having security issues?

[flasholinos]

when i create a projector and save it in a folder with greek fonts it can't see
external files. Do you have any solution for this problem?

[nele]

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=214225&page=2

[nele]

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=214225&page=1

[travistee]

I have an SWF that I created with flash8.
It was originally in flash MX, so when I published it I used the actionscript 1.0 option.

I used On2 to create a flash video in flash8 swf format convered from an AVI.

That flash video plays with sound.

When I use loadmovie to load it into the main flash movie described above it plays without sound.

Any ideas?

[travistee]

I am using flash8 actionscript 2.0

I use loadmovie to play an swf video in the main movie.

When I load it from the same directory it plays with sound.
When I use loadmovie to load it from a web url ( http://.) (http://.)/) it plays but without sound.

I tried it with both Flash8 swf and FlashMX swf, same results.

Any ideas

[icio]

Ooopsie.

Sorry for bad compression - mspaint.

[grass]

plz help me dudes - check this site - theres a problem, that opera doesn't show text.... its embed AA in textarea and all links are created by loadMovie to a emptyMovieClip... mozilla & ie work fine.
ON the main page there should be text
under links "about estonia" and "our neighbors" should be a lot of text....
Most of the page is done using a.s manually .... these submovies created by graphic add...

converting to bitmap text helps but its quite ugly and lot of work.... any idea?
http://www.mixib.com/temp/northstar/projekt99994.html

[saitex]

http://www.mastermindproductionz.com/ can any 1 make me a tutorial explaining how to turn pages in flash. any help is greatly epritiated

[REEF·]

Sorry to bring this up, but I have the worst and most general issue here.

My whole flash movie(s) play 20-30 frames slower in ff/ie browsers then it does in the flash player itself. And the gotoandplay coding doesnt work like its supposed to (until I refresh the page!). But everything works in the stand-alone player.

How would I fix this? I'm in a huge ditch here =/.

[anardodesign]

Be careful with the Flash 8 target path, because it will restructure your entire library, and make its own inside the target path, and inside a movie clip symbol, but not just that it will also organize the animation however it wants.

[REEF·]

But I still have my copy of flash mx, and the swf's rendered by flash mx play in slowmotion in the browsers as well.

:(

[renjithrk]

We have two servers at work : one with the flas and one with the swf and all the media. With mx2004 we used to put
\\pc-internet\myProject\mySwf.swf
in the publish setting but this kind of path don't work anymore with flash8...
It's very annoying cause we have to create maps and put :
Z:/myProject/mySwf.swf

To get this problem solved add one more slash "\" in the begining

\\\pc-internet\myProject\mySwf.swf (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/)
:p:

[dumsdei]

my website doesnt seem to work in ie and ff, when published in the internet already. but it works fine when tested in my computer. However, the website is working fine in opera, be it in the net or in my computer.

please visit www.limegrafix.cwhnetworks.com and see what i mean. use the three browsers i mentioned above and it will give you totally different results.

any suggestions on how to fix this? thanks.

[susred]

I've had problems with Flash 8 doing crazy things only to be fixed by me quitting and then relaunching the program.

One I can think of (and this happens at home as well as at work) is I'll create a button, then add code to the symbol. Then I drag another symbol of the same button to the stage and add different code.

Then the first button I created takes on the code of the second button. So I fix the code on the first button, and the second button takes on that code. When i relaunch, and start over, it works just as it should. ?!?!

[milestrap]

Open the Help and Search for something.
Open one of the resulting pages, and then choose Reload (right-click).
Hard crash to desktop every time.

fresh 10.4.4 install:

Ya crashes for me too.. I have a big list of bugs.
I'm trying to get some work done though. :{

[hgfl]

Problem I've experienced:

1. used attachMovie to add a movieClip to the stage with _root.getNextHighestDepth as the depth
2. placed a ScrollPane on the stage
3. tried to use removeMovieClip to remove the movieClip attached in step one and it won't go away

Conflict between the ScrollPane and the movieClip
Sent a bug report to Adobe anyway.

[xxlm]

Hi mate.
I don't think it's a conflict...
Have you check the depth of your movieclip when attaching it?
If it's more than 1,048,575 you cannot remove it.
check http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/depths2.htm...
Cheers

[hgfl]

You're right. But how come the nextHighestDepth is above 1,048,575 only when a scrollPane is present? When there is no ScrollPane there, the nextHighestDepth is 0. The ScrollPane is at depth -16373, so I can't see how that should make a difference. I smell a bug.

I have 2 movies that are identical apart from the presence of a ScrollPane in one of them. See below:

[xxlm]

That's why I,m not using often the getNextHighestDepth().... :D

[darth]

I have found that when loading external images inside html-enabled textfield, the textfield turns white when viewed through Mozilla. It is not happening in Internet Explorer, I havent tried Opera or Safari.

example here:

http://www.hot.ee/freq/textfield.html

[hgfl]

I have found that when loading external images inside html-enabled textfield, the textfield turns white when viewed through Mozilla. It is not happening in Internet Explorer, I havent tried Opera or Safari.

example here:

http://www.hot.ee/freq/textfield.html

Just tested your example. In Firefox, it kinda flashed white whilst loading, but then turned black as it should be. Is the error still occuring for you? I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.4 -- perhaps it is present in earlier versions.

I've also tested it in Opera and Netscape - no problems there.

[darth]

I think it flashed because you have fast connection and on slower connection it stays white longer... this "flash" is the problem.
I have tested Firefox 1.5.0.4 with flash player 8 and 9, windows xp

[scoult01]

One thing that REALLY irks me about flash, is the 100% CPU usage on holding the LMB down. Any videos that are currently playing while i'm developing a page will begin to stutter, same with my music. Found nothing on google about it, or the Macromedia page.

[Manare]

Hi.
A simple tween animation which won't work if these 2 frames are together side-by-side. The solution: Add a blank frame between them...& voilà! It works like it should..

It sometimes happens but not always, so here's a link that will allow you to download the buggy fla example (& its swf) and the fla with the "drive through" solution I've found to solve this (although nobody should do this if there was not bug...)
Download it HERE (http://personales.ya.com/pruebas2005/Another_BUG_&_Drive_through.rar)

Thanks

[Rustyd]

Found an interesting bug or potentially emerging issue that may or may not actually be flash but it goes like this:

I start Flash 8
I open a New (or existing) FLA
I hit F9
(And this is the bug) Suddenly, I have NO Flash or AS Ability whatsoever!!! NOT that I had any to begin with, mind you@!Nothing I write ever works!!! I can't even add 2 stinking variables together!!! This has been going on since Flash 5!!!

Ok, I am going to go procure and perhaps imbibe a refreshing alcoholic beverage and pretend to be casually unconcerned. :look:

>>> This message brought to you by a cranky Rustyd <<<

[vintage]

this concerns textfields with restrict and wmode="transparent" (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=223581)

just delete the transparent stuff and it will work, this "bug" was only noticable with azerty keyboards where you have to use alt_gr+2 to typ an @
you can howaver "paste" the characters, only not type them yourself.

In later tests there was also problems with other characters that were restricted , each character that needs a "abnormal" keycode to type was impossible.

This bug was also with version 7 published

[ashes999]

I'm experiencing a very painful bug. Often times, components just disappear from the Flash movie during authoring.

It happened with the Xray component--not at all visible anywhere, though the Admin interface still connects. Then it happened with a scrollpane, and it doesn't exist anymore! Yet the authored move works kind of the same.

Has anyone else run into this bug? Are there any known fixes?

It also happens more often when using/developing custom components.

Edit: After deleting mountains of symbols, it was there; but after reloading the file and repeating the same procedure, it's not there. It comes and goes like the wind...

[Rita]

I can't insert sounds in my library and i don't know why!
any help?

[Random Hero]

It sucks that you can't manipulate registration points like in past versions, and I also run into issues with exporting images (crops sides off if it is a large document).

[SlowRoasted]

Yeah the registration point crap is annoying.

[icio]

What's the problem exactly? I've never had any problems with the registration point.

[takethetrain]

Has anyone else noticed this small bug in Flash 8? In my preferences, I have it set to "New document" after "On launch", which I would expect to open a new document if I am not already opening an existing document. But if I have Flash closed and double-click on of my existing .fla's, an "Untitled-1" tab pops up next to it.

I suppose this doesn't dramatically affect my workflow, but man, is it ever annoying! Is this a documented bug--if it is even considered a bug?

[rolan_]

whenever I create a button out of a movieClip( with an on press function on it) and have a menubar in the same .fla there always seems to be some sort of conflict.

Whenever the menubar dropdown menu is activated in any way, the button no longer has the same functionality. Instead of requiring a single click(from the on press function) it then requires a double-click or movement between clicks on the button, before the button will work again.

I think this is a bug involving the menubar not releasing the focus even when it is no longer being activated. But the setFocus function does not resolve the problem, so I'm somewhat in the dark right now.

anyone know how to resolve this/get around it?

[rolan_]

ok, so apparently if you use selection.setFocus(_root.instanceName) it will get around the problem, but still, its pretty annoying and stupid... Oh well

[Random Hero]

What's the problem exactly? I've never had any problems with the registration point.

Well, here's what I had a problem with...in the past, you could just select 'edit center' and move the center point/registration point at will.

Now, the center point and edit point are separate, and one of the only ways to edit the center point is at the time of creation, but that will not put the point outside of the symbol's content area. To edit it after the fact, or shift it outside of the symbol's content area, you have to open up the symbol after it is created and shift the content around until you get the point where you want it.

Why it's important to have the ability to easily move the registration point is that this point is what flash bases its actionscript tranformations on, such as _rotation, _xscale, _yscale, etc (at least, that's how I understand it). It would also be nice to be able to change the registration point via actionscript, as well.

[Digital Utopia]

Actually, I've got a couple of issues here, however, I'm almost positive one of them isn't my fault in some way..

I have a bunch of buttons within a movie clip that scrolls with a scroll bar. this in turn is in a movie clip that's on the stage. The problem is, that I cannot select the movie clip on the stage. I can see the clip, but even with turning off all the layers above I can't select it, and instead, it selects a clip below it. when I turn off the layers below...clicking on it does absolutely nothing.

when I drag-select, I can actually select the clip, however..the only way to actually edit the movie clip is by either selecting it from the 'Edit Symbols' drop down, or double-clicking on the symbol in the library....which is obviously quite annoying.

the second issue might be my fault, but I see no reason why its doing this. This issue is in regards to dynamic text fields.

I'm making a mp3 player, that displays the Song/Artist/Album information. I have it set up using a function that will place the information of the currently playing song in three seperate dynamic text fields when the id3 info does not return undefined, with a setInterval to run that function every 100 ms or so.

Everything worked beautifuly at first, but after a while, the album text is not visible anymore....so I started trying to track down the cause.

double checked to make sure that the instance name didn't get changed, and made sure that it matched the instance name referenced in the Actionscript...both checked out..

checked my text settings to make sure it wasn't somehow changed to be transparent, or otherwise invisible

ran a couple of trace statements to verify, and did verify, that both the album name was being read from the id3 tag, AND the album name was being set to the text box.

so now I'm completely puzzled...even tried deleting the mask I had created (which was about the time the album text stopped displaying) and that didn't help.

anybody happen to have any ideas, or have come across any similar problems? any ideas would certainly help, and I'd definately appreciate it

[takethetrain]

Digital Utopia, for a problem as complex as yours--I'm referring to the second one--it might make more sense to post it in a new thread, rather than in this one. Then you can post your file, too, and the problem may turn out to be simpler than you think. :)

As for the first--have you tried locking all other layers and choosing Edit-Select All? Does anything happen?

[Digital Utopia]

Digital Utopia, for a problem as complex as yours--I'm referring to the second one--it might make more sense to post it in a new thread, rather than in this one. Then you can post your file, too, and the problem may turn out to be simpler than you think. :)

As for the first--have you tried locking all other layers and choosing Edit-Select All? Does anything happen?

yeah actually, I found out the problem...apparently it was because all I had on the first layer of that clip were empty dynamic text boxes....as soon as I added some kind of other content to that frame...I was able to select it with no problem...I guess I'd still call it a bug, but at least I know how to get around it. (and yeah, I did try hiding/locking all other layers...and when I did that...clicking/double clicking did absolutely nothing)

and even (more or less) found out the reason for the second problem...apparently it had something to do with the embedded text. the original idea was to make the song title 14pt, the artist 12pt and the album 10pt. well I tried copying the artist text field, and pasting/renaming it to the album text field and it worked fine. As soon as I changed the font size and embeded it..it disappeared again. So I guess I'm going to just have to stick with the artist/album text being the same size/type..lol

[Disco-Stu]

I have a 36 meg fla (LOTS of images and video for a business card CD), and after 22+ hours of working on it, it won't open. I'm really dumbfounded. Flash 8, beefy system, everything seemed fine! Now, Flash will open, but when I open up my .fla, flash just dumps me back to my desktop with no errors or anything. :(

[cryo.burned]

wow stu.. that would piss me off so friggin much..

[Krilnon]

This probably doesn't qualify as an actual bug, but the Auto Format button finds an error when using a block comment inside a function argument. The Check Syntax button (correctly) states that the code is fine.


trace(/* Oops! */ 'Hi!');

[takethetrain]

I've had that problem too Krilnon.. it's annoying when you want to temporarily comment out part of a trace or something. If I want to avoid the error message I have to cut and paste it out. :P

[Nesha]

:rock: I'm not sure if this is a bug but it's been giving me hell of a time! I created a slide presentation in flash 8 professional. All done and nicely animated and I'm not sure what I did but now the entir thing is off the page. So when I play it only half the animation can be screen on every single slide. Im not sure what I did? Each slide has a diff animation that isn't a movieclip so I can't simply move it back in position onto the page. Is there a way I can move the screen back so it registeres with where I've created the animation?

update: encountered another bug while trying to fix this. I tried to copy all the frames an dmake it a mc and when I went to play it. The slide presentation played all 40 slides in the presentation at once.

[sonordrums135]

Everytime i try to open flash 8, it says "AuthPlay DLL/Lib is missing from the configuration folder."

IT WONT EVEN OPEN!

Please help.... I just got this program and I want to learn to use it very well(to make some money and buy video stuff)....

Gracias...

[Sinister Rouge]

Everytime i try to open flash 8, it says "AuthPlay DLL/Lib is missing from the configuration folder."

IT WONT EVEN OPEN!

Please help.... I just got this program and I want to learn to use it very well(to make some money and buy video stuff)....

Gracias...

call adobe support...

[duder78]

This one is frustrating. I'm trying to export a bitmap to .EPS 3.0 format from Flash 8 Professional. I'm running an Intel PM 800 Mhz w/512 megs RAM and about 1.5 Gigs in virtual memory. The physical memory will be doubled in about 5 days. I have 2 bitmap logos @ about 800k each. Each graphic is contained in it's own .fla and inserted on a layerby themselves. After running a 'trace bitmap' on one of them and successfully exporting to an .EPS file of about 6 megs, the program bit the dust so to speak. When I went to do the same thing to the other logo, the trace worked but when I went to export the .EPS file, the filesize topped out at 245K and it is corrupted and unreadable to other programs. When trying to export a second time, Flash 8 bombs out and closes. It now does this consistently even after completely reinstalling Studio 8.

Just for kicks I drew one ellipse by itself and successfully exported it to .EPS no problem. I'm guessing it's either a resource issue with my system or a Flash 8 issue exporting large vector graphics. With deadlines quickly creeping up on me, this one is driving me NUTS. I got halfway there and hit a brick wall!

[feedforward]

One thing really bugs me with Flash 8 on OS X. It's the Top of the widgets...damned difficult to grab quickly when you want to move things out of the way. Save from hiding the said widget with shortcuts....

[SylvanLady]

What is up with Flash 8 and IE? I am seeing this on sites that were fine until recently, as well as on a site I'm doing now:

No TEXT!

Images load fine, functionality seems fine... but no text. It was suggested that I break all text into graphics, but that is just too much, and not a real fix.

The problem seems to be only with IE. I am already implementing the js workaround to make my links work properly.

IS this a flash bug? or more IE shenanigans?

Thanks,

SL

[Ordinathorreur]

Thats probably just because you have the wrong player version installed in ie, Flash 8 has a new text rendering engine.

(p.s. what's up with the js workaround you mention to get links working properly?)

[SylvanLady]

Hrm. The problem with that is that I must insure every potential client has the right player installed, or they won't see the site.

If that's the case, I should go and back-save all recent Flash work to v.7... and remove all v.8 functionality. I thought Macromedia/Adobe had sworn up and down that auto detectors would get everybody upgraded effortlessly. Yes, I know: That's what I thought.

js workaround: DW8 adds this automatically if you open a page containing a flash file. At first, there were independantly written scripts. But this is much nicer. You just have to make sure and open/re-save all past projects. :smirk:

[Dazzer]

Check out swfObject. Its a javascript include, that you can put together with your swf, and it includes an option for auto updating. xHTML Compliant. highly recommended

[SylvanLady]

Checking it out now... thanks!

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/swfobject.html

[final_end]

the problem i've been having with just one site i'm working on is that in internet explorer(PC only) when a page is visited..clicked out of...and returned to, many elements are completely out of place or just all gone together. comes up fine the first time but return visits totally move elements around, and there is no script anywhere but on the nav which is fine.

i've noticed that the things that are out of place and f'd up are the elements that have flash8 filters on them like drop shadow or glow. but once again on some pc's there is no problem to speak of with the latest version of IE, but then again most PC's are giving me this whacky problem.

nothing is coded differently than on any of my other sites. same work-around for the activex that is on kirupa.com...but its just this one.

has anyone else ran into this or heard of the flash8 filters causing any kind of problems like this?

[vintage]

This topic is now so long that I dont bother to look back anymore (so maybe this is already mentioned)

bug?
If you use Mouse.hide(); and rightClick on the swf, the mouse is not hidden anymore.

[Krilnon]

I think that that's intentional behavior. You aren't allowed to disable the menu, and it would make sense that they still want it to be easy for you to click menu items.

[Icewolf]

Icelandic letters such as Ý, ý, ð Ð don't work on Mac computers. :jail:

[SuyabCo]

Hello.

I dunno if this has been answerd yet:

I am making an RPG and I'm up to 20+ layers, and it freezes when I try to publish, or test movie.

[Dazzer]

var t:Array
var t2:Array = new Array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0)

t = t2.splice(5)
t2.splice(0,0,t)
trace("Spliced: " + t)
trace("Finish: " + t2)

t = t2.splice(1)
t2.splice(0,0,t)
trace("Spliced: " + t)
trace("Finish: " + t2)


Please run this code. You will see that weird things happen. It seems that after the splice, the length of the array is not updated. Am i doing something wrong?

[TheCanadian]

When you splice in an array, the entire array is added as a single index. It doesn't transfer each item from the original array into the new array as seperate indices.

[valiumsonik]

I got the bug, i think it have to do with the way IE deal with the transparent mode. Don't put the wmode to transparent in your HTML page.... Stupid IE!




the problem i've been having with just one site i'm working on is that in internet explorer(PC only) when a page is visited..clicked out of...and returned to, many elements are completely out of place or just all gone together. comes up fine the first time but return visits totally move elements around, and there is no script anywhere but on the nav which is fine.

i've noticed that the things that are out of place and f'd up are the elements that have flash8 filters on them like drop shadow or glow. but once again on some pc's there is no problem to speak of with the latest version of IE, but then again most PC's are giving me this whacky problem.

nothing is coded differently than on any of my other sites. same work-around for the activex that is on kirupa.com...but its just this one.

has anyone else ran into this or heard of the flash8 filters causing any kind of problems like this?

[xxbbcc]

I think I found a bug in Flash 8 Pro on WinXP Pro SP2, AMD Athlon 64 4800 X2 dual, 2 GB memory. I'm not sure if this is known, so here it goes - to reproduce:

1. Create a new document in Flash
2. Using the brush tool, create 50-60 separate, wavy, jagged shapes (this is to generate a lot of vector points.)
3. Zoom in to 2000%.
4. Use the eraser to create even more jaggy edges around the shapes.
5. Switch to the subselection tool, click a shape's edge to turn on vector points for the shape.
6. Still using the subselection tool, start deleting vector points in such a way that the shape is not divided into multiple shapes. Save frequently.
7. Repeat for other shapes. Again, save frequently.

There are multiple problems during this process:
- Selecting a vector point easily takes 2+ seconds which is - the way I see it - flat out unacceptable. When I use a 3D modelling tool and select vector points, there is virtually no delay, even in models with a lot of points.

- On my machine, memory allocation shot through the roof - after about an hour of work, Flash was using 900 MB+ memory. At the end, it refused to save the .fla file (the error message was "Cannot save the file, it appears to be locked..." or something to that effect.) The memory was not freed even when I finally closed the file; it only went away when I closed Flash.

- The size of the .fla file keeps growing steadily, even though I didn't add a single new item to the drawing - I only deleted vector points with the subselection tool after the drawing was done. The file size went from ~500 KB to 2.7 MB after deleting at least 200 vector points - and I used Save and Compact several times. Again, no new points/layers/etc. was added. (When using Save, the file size is about 6 MB - this seems to be constant.) The .swf size is going down as expected.

- I'm not sure if this is correct or not, but in my file there are 20+ "rogue" vector points: they seem to belong to certain shapes (shown when such shapes are clicked with the subselection tool), but then have no handles, they cannot be deleted and they stand alone, away from the shape - there is no line connecting to any other vector point in the shape. When I move them, a new point is created. The new point can be deleted, but the original rogue point cannot. Also, if I draw a selection rectangle around the "rogue" point with the subselection tool, it is not selected.

- This is something I cannot readily reproduce, but Save and Compact sometimes (randomly) increases the file size by a few hundread bytes. It happened multiple times, but not always.

edit: added some details

edit 2: finally attached the fla file (zipped) - now it's over 3 MB and Flash keeps crashing when I edit the file and save it a few times. The error message before the crash is the same as above. Someone mentioned in a previous post that Flash 8 is like a beta and I agree - it sure feels like that. I'm wondering if it was tested before they slapped a price tag on it and sent it to stores. :x

link to file (became to big to upload, even zipped): http://www.filefactory.com/file/156f71/

edit 3: copying the layers with drawings (shadows of the tree in the linked file) into a new Flash file seems to solve the problem temporarily - when saving the new file, the size is 37 KB-s. However, the bug is back, too - after deleting about 70 vector points from the "shadow" layer, the size is already up to 170 KB-s and growing. I saved twice, so it's probably a memory corruption that happens and it gets written to the disk.

[jogoetz]

I am running Flash 8 Pro on a Mac OS X, Dual-Core. Whenever I switch back to Flash 8 Pro from another application, like Photoshop or Safari - even TextEdit, I get the spinning ball of death for about 7 or 8 seconds. Then Flash resumes running smoothly. But it will do this EVERY time I switch back to Flash from another app. Any recommendations?

Thanks,
Jonathan

[Barn]

Now, the center point and edit point are separate, and one of the only ways to edit the center point is at the time of creation, but that will not put the point outside of the symbol's content area. To edit it after the fact, or shift it outside of the symbol's content area, you have to open up the symbol after it is created and shift the content around until you get the point where you want it.
The registration point and the center point have always been separate entities. Now the difference is that the "edit center point" menu selection has moved to a tool in the toolbox, the "Free Transform Tool" (Ctrl+Q), which has added functionality -- if you double-click on the center point it will snap to the object's registration point.

[niccolo]

I crash every time I open the Actions Panel.
Any thoughts?
;P
I have the same problem on a PowerBook G4.
Uninstalled and thrown away every macromedia file but no success.
I have tried many things.
Have you reached a solution?
Would be very welcome.

[sparrow]

Hey All, i'm new here, so bear with me..

I am working as an Illustrator, and have been using flash for 7 odd years now. I do a lot of my digital illustration in flash because the drawing tools are far more fluid than any other vector based program. I'm currently using flash8 professional

My machine is an iMac 2GHz processor with 1.25GB ram (which doesnt mean a whole lot to me apart from me thinking it is supposed to be a decent speed)

I have a problem - Sometimes when drawing in flash mysteriously vector shapes will just disappear. This has happened on random occasions throughout the time ive been working in flash

a lot of my illustration is quite vector heavy which probably leads to my problem.
I worked for eight hours solid on a linework illustration (using the pencil tool) and saved as i always do. When i opened the file this morning 3/4 of it had just disappeared. when i highlight an area where some of the vectors are supposed to be, Flash crashes.

i cant seem to retrieve any of the missing vectors, and a previously saved version is 8hrs old.

anyone have any ideas??
cheers

[glosrfc]

Touch wood...it's not a problem I've experienced although I've heard of it happening to others. One of the problems with saving an FLA is that Flash 8will also save a whole lot of extra information such as all of the previous undo levels. While useful, in that it allows you to use the undo option even on a file you're just reopened, it does increase the filesize of the FLA quite dramatically. Given that, because of the number of vectors, your file is already quite large to begin with it may be that Flash is loading all of this extra info into memory before it even begins trying to figure out where all your vectors should be.

I'm not sure how a Mac handles memory but, if it's anything like the way Windows does, it might also be a problem with insufficient HD space to create a swapdisk? This, in turn, would be exacerbated by the much bigger filesize of a normally saved FLA.

One solution might be to periodically use the Save As option to create a new backup that only contains your vectors, symbols, layers, actions, etc., i.e. everything you really want but without all of that (mostly useless) undo level stuff. Keep that Save As version as your primary backup.

[gunjan]

Hi,
Whenever i am using this it shows a bug. After choosing one option from combobox i can't use other events on first click. For example I have a mc and there is code for this as mc.onRelease=function (){
tarce(this);
}

it is working and trace this mc on release but when i am using combobox (it is also on the stage)and choosing some option, that onRelease event is not called in first release it called the trace code on second release over it or release any where on the stage.

I am using flash 8 professional, on windows xp sp2 edition.

Thanks,
Gunjan

[suziam]

You know what's driving me INSANE?!

When you create a static text box in Flash 8, and type a word with a double 'f' eg. offering, effective etc, it displays the first 'f', but then hides the second and inserts a false space in its place!

The only way to fix it is by clicking after the first f and changing the kerning.

Surely there must be another way... :hurt:

FYI Flash 8 version for MAC is what I'm using... anyone else have this problem?

[parkeast]

Only looked through first couple pages, but Flash 8 Professional crashes quite frequently when I try to close the .swf window while testing movie. It happens pretty rpedictably whenever I'm working with XML. I'm thinking that maybe Flash is having a conflict with the standalone Flashplayer 7 which is still on my g5. Running OS 10.4.2. Anyone else having this issue?

Did you ever resolve this?
I have the same problem.

Basically I can't test a movie unless I'm willing to restart Flash.
It is VERY annoying.

[dsmflash]

When double-clicking or editing a symbol currently located on the stage in an Adobe Flash document, you will see a slow animation of an expanding dashed box outline before the symbol is opened. It takes about 5-8 seconds to open the editor and close it. This is due to the Aero graphics setting in Vista conflicting with Flash and is VERY frustrating. I fixed it with these instructions:
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401316
I do not know how widespread this glitch is, but it will drive you crazy and I hope this helps someone who experiences it.:ko:

[lando35mm]

At both jobs I've worked at using Flash 8, I'll be running test movies throughout the day and at least once per day (sometimes 3), I will hit CTRL+ENTER to run a test movie and the test movie won't run. I'll have to close flash and restart it to be able to continue. Even trying to test the movie from the control menu doesn't work. Is there some kind of cache that has to be cleared to continue to test movies?

A

[quincy18]

ik heb de trial gedownload en elke keer als ik het opstart op windows xp zie ik en zandlopen voor een paar seconden en doet hij niks:(

[quincy18]

ik heb de trial gedownload en elke keer als ik het opstart op windows xp zie ik en zandlopen voor een paar seconden en doet hij niks:(

sorry about this im dutch forgot to type in english :-/ i said :

when i try to startup macromedia flash 8 i only see that its busy and it does nothing
:pa:

[Dragy]

Aaah!
This is the weirdest bug I've ever met, and it keeps me from working on my flash project! Sometimes, when I go to a specific frame where all of the script is, the frame will, well, half load! That's right! Sometimes nothing happens and obviously nothing works, and sometimes nothing works but I got HALF traces of some functions I didn't even call.
The weirdest thing is, SOMETIMES, when I throw a trace in the beginning on the script, it solves it! It doesn't take a lot of time of work till it's back and I have to find another unsensible solution...

All of this just doesn't make any sense, but it is here in front of my eyes. Unfortunately I can't send you guys any of the script or show it here. But I went over almost every corner of my 3k code lines and I have found nothing strange, and flash doesnt pop up any errors on publish.

I have backups from a couple of days ago when it didn't happen, but merging everything up again is insane. I'm not being lazy, believe me, because all I did the last week was to work on this flash all day long as much as I can.

If anyone around here have any idea what the hell is going on with my flash, please tell me.
Thank you.

[Adamius]

the setMask function is doing my head in :( is it just me or does it only seem to work on the first frame and the first layer? even when importing a working swf that has the mask system working it still wont mask!! v frustrating coz i can't mask dynamic text past the first frame...

[hatu]

I was battling with a weird bug when using Radio Buttons in my game.
Flash 8 exports all components on the first frame and just changing it from the library does nothing. So when you go to the properties of a radio button for example and uncheck "Export in first frame" it won't solve the problem.

You have to change it from Publish settings, press on the Settings button next to Actionscript version and change "Export frames to class" to 2.

[HechEff]

Someone before me probably posted this, but I'll do so anyway:

The "Simulated Download" function is quite buggy, which has misled me into thinking I fouled up the code of something as simple as a preloader, even. <_<

Some people also mentioned bugs such as the simulated download does not reset variables and so forth, though I am yet to test such a thing for myself.

[3pepe3]

Hello.
I found that ColorMatrixFilter interfere with the behavior of onRollOver and onRollOut (Theory with the hitArea of the movieclip) when a tween is applied.
The problem is more visible when you movieClip has the registration point at the top-left corner and you place your cursor on the lower-right corner.

I will attach a simple file.
:liar:????

[brad82]

I was making a preloader for my website that hasnt been created yet and the script runs really slow but the strange thing is that i used all the script and symbols from kirupas tut. and this works fine

brad82

[HechEff]

I am not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but I encounter bugs even when tweening text as a symbol...

[DonaldCox]

I IWhilst working on a new portfolio-design, I've just encountered a very strange bug.
It's a bit hard to explain (you can see it in action here: http://www.donaldcox.0fees.net/brain/brain.html )

An object is programmed to rotate as the X-position of the mouse changes, a mask follows this object so as to show a background.

Now it works fine if I publish internally working in Flash, Explorer is all good and (although I'm at work atm) I am certain it worked fine at home (in Firefox).

However here when I open it in firefox, it doesn't follow the mouse all the way to the edge. The flash-player seems to stop detecting the position of the mouse at a certain position (in the left-side of the clip).
There is a little intro to the site btw.

Anyway, there is virtually no css or extra html on this page and the only script is the one flash generates itself on publishing.
I'm using version 10,0,12,36 here to view it (and cs3 to build it).

[Lance]

The flash 8 was buggy. So I upgraded to CS3. Now CS3 is buggy! Like really buggy! I'm hesitating the upgrade to CS4 even though it has so many cool features.

[ikirily]

I really dont know if its a bug or not but i was experiencing this problem of mine...

i have a 2d game that just like a maze with some moving objects whereas obstacles that if it hits the player it will move downward, upward, left or right depends on the hit position.. with my walls, if the player(MC object) hits the wall and the moving MC(obstacle "blade") hits it also and I as user press up + left or up right, down +left or down + right, thinking that the player(MC) is sliding in the wall accidentally hitted by the blade.. the player(MC) object flies out of the game.. it moves out of the field..

i dont know if this is a bug or what.. sorry if its not...