Wow. This is awful. Just insanely badly bugged. Flash MX2004 AND
Flash 8. Dunno about CS3.
I made a JSFL panel, the swf for this panel is named "Gaia Framework
Tool.swf". When I tried to open it under Window > Other Panels, it
opened up the gProject panel. Huh? So, I add v1 to the end of my panel
name and it opens fine. Not a fair solution and not sure what's causing
this buggy behavior. I try to open the actual gProject panel and that
does nothing (since it's already open).
So, I go into the Extension Manager and uncheck gProject. Launch Flash,
same problem. Wha? I just turned off gProject and it doesn't appear in
the list of available Other Panels.
So, I got into the Extension Manager and trash gProject. Launch Flash,
and when I try to open my Panel under Other Panels, it opens gProject
(in the same group I had it grouped with before - the library), but the
panel is empty and it says cannot find file when I rollover it. This is
totally insane.
I go into the Configuration folders both in my Local Settings folder AND
in the Flash program folder and search for anything that says gProject.
Nothing.
I search the registry for gProject. Nothing.
I search the file system on C: for gProject. Nothing.
I search the C drive looking INSIDE every single file for the word
gProject (which took forever). Nothing!
Now this is ridiculous. Flash MUST be storing this information
somewhere. How can it know the panel gProject's name, much less where
it exists or what group it belonged to unless it was stored somewhere on
my computer, be it in the registry or some configuration file. All my
searching resulted in NOTHING found.
So, WHAT THE F**K?
We've got a few nasty bugs here. First bug is that opens the wrong
panel if the panel has the same first character in its name.
Second, it opens the right panel that has the same first character if I
add "v1" to the end of it (very odd, indeed).
Third, it opens the wrong panel that has been completely removed from
the system and does not even appear in the list of available panels to
Flash and the loaded panel is empty.
If I am going to distribute my panel and people own a copy of gProject,
how am I supposed to deal with this terribly nasty bug?
--
Steven Sacks
Flash Maestro
Los Angeles, CA
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blog: http://www.stevensacks.net
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