URGENT: printFrom + flash causing crash

[Bentmen webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi All:

I'm at the tail end of a project and am running into a fatal error at the last moment.

Summary: using printFrom to print a single frame that has multiple iterations of the same flash movie causes Director to crash, both in authoring and projector. I'm on Mac OS9, but it'll have to run on Windows, too. Can't test that here.

Details:

Please understand the architecture can't be changed, nor can we use POM. There's no time (has to be delivered tomorrow) nor $, nor does the client want to see a print dialog box.

The application is a proofreader's tool to review hundreds of banner ads, both swf and animated gif. Six iterations of the same ad are placed on the stage. There is a separate corresponding cast member for each of the six sprites, but each cast member points to the same swf (naturally) via "filename of member" (as opposed to importFileInto -- does this make a difference?). There are six sliders onstage to change the frame of each individual flash sprite, and a print button that has this script attached:

on mouseUp
printFrom (the frame, the frame, 80)
end

So they want to be able to print one page that has six copies of the same swf file visible, each paused at a different frame.

When I click the button, it gives me an "out of memory" error and crashes wth a type 3 error. The memory error message is spurious -- there's plenty of RAM made available to the program in either authoring or projector mode. I tried this on two different machines with the same result.

Any help appreciated!

Oh yeah -- this is Director 8.5.1. I'll try MX next.

best,
FBC

[Bentmen webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hmm... well, when I tried it from MX, it printed with no problem. Go figure...

I'd still be curious as to whether anyone else has seen this problem.

best,
FBC