Flash movies won't start

[flextnet]

Hi

Just upgraded to Flash player 8, and now only 1 of the flash movies on my
website starts playing when the page is loaded in IE:
[url]http://www.flashextension.net[/url]

This worked fine with the v7 player, all the little 'thumbnail' movies started
playing automatically. With Flash 8 I have to click inside the movie to get it
to start. Not cool.

Most of these movies are using the v2 component architecture for the bulk of
their output- maybe this has something to do with it? Or is it some kind of new
security feature? Is the Flash 8 player still in beta or am I stuck with this?

Thanks

[_jasonWylie]

Flash Player is no longer in Beta as it is now publically available. Browsing
directly to the movies that do not start playing initially does not create a
different effect. Without seeing the FLA it would be hard for me to determine
what might be causing this. Have you tried opening the FLA in Flash 8 (you
could use the trial version if you have not purchased) and publishing to see if
the file has the same effect?

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Regards,

Jason Wylie
Senior Support Engineer
Macromedia Technical Support
Flash Player, Flash, Central

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[flextnet]

Jason

Yes these movies are published for Flash 7 with Flash MX 2004. I have not
tried publishing it with Flash 8 yet- however I feel I need to keep these as
'flash 7' movies for awhile until Flash 8 is more ubiquitous.

Not sure what you mean by 'Browsing directly to the movies that do not start
playing initially does not create a different effect.' I basically have to
click on the movies that don't start initially to get them to start playing -
every time.

Can't really send the fla because there are many fla's here- and each works
fine on their own- it's only when I put them all together on the same page in
IE and run them with Flash 8 do they 'break'.

Thanks

[_jasonWylie]

Sorry I'll try to explain this better. If I go to the following SWF on your
site it doesn't play as well with the Flash Player 8 installed:
[url]http://www.flashextension.net/media/smallClock.swf[/url]

If you change the order of SWF's on the page is it always the first component
SWF that works?

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Regards,

Jason Wylie
Senior Support Engineer
Macromedia Technical Support
Flash Player, Flash, Central

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[flextnet]

Yes you're right- if I single out each movie and try to play them in their own
html page, they are also stuck in that case. So I guess it's not the order or
the fact that there are many movies on the page, but something about these
movies themselves that's making this happen.

The only thing unusual about these movies is that they are displaying and
running v2 components... also strange is that I have other pages on my site
that run these same components and the movies start ok- (the 'snow storm' at
the top is one of them).

I will see if I can find any discrepancies in these movies- but also just
wondering if you might know what's going on?

Rich

[flextnet]

After some tests this looks to be a 'focus' issue with the components in the
movies. I don't know why, but the component movies don't start playing until I
click on the movie in the browser. Also strange is that when I add a 'Button'
component to the stage the movie does start playing automatically!

I'm starting to think this is some problem with the 'focusManager' object
because I have had problems with that one before.

Sorry I know this is starting to get more technical but I didn't get any
answers in the other flash forums, so I'm keeping it here :)

[flextnet]

Ok I discovered the problem and it's kind of interesting for anyone who
eventually might run into this...

My components had defined the 'onEnterFrame' function to be able to update the
scene on every frame. This function always got called in Flash Player 7, and
the scene always updated. For some reason in Flash 8, this function is replaced
(blown out) by a call to one of the component's parent classes. To solve this I
just had to make an empty movie clip and update the scene in the onEnterFrame
of that clip.

Jason thanks for looking at this problem

Rich