Ok i came across a posting on flashkit dating back to 2001, which had a fix that worked for me.. (http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=216191)
This fix is so simple it nearly made me cry.... My old table code which held the swf's.. <table width="797" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="left"> Needed to be.. <table width="797" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> i removed the align="left" and bang it all worked... No more dissapearing SWF's.... removing the align= and valign= from the <TD>'s didnt make a difference but removing the alignment on the entire table did. In fact if i couldnt use valign etc it would have killed the positioning of one of the swfs etc... go figure... MM u might want to document this or something, cause i lost days troubleshooting this issue.. My apologies if it is documented but seriously getting support in finding this fix was virtually non-existent.. Anyways i hope these posts are of benefit to users who may experience the same issue.. All the best Jason "Jason Bayly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > OK this issue has been around for a few years.. In my DAYS of searching > forums/sites etc ive found loads of others having/had similar problems and > not a documented case of a fix or a work around etc. > > This is crazy, how can macromedia ignore an issue that so many are having > problems with.. Macs are used in house here for all creative stuff (IE5.1 > is the inhouse browser), with the actual development occuring on the PC's.. > Hence our desire to have things stable on this browser. Everything is > perfect on the PC in all browsers. > > The Problem: > OK got multiple SWF's on a page, the ones that are in a <td>'s go all buggy > and disappear when they are interacted with in these ways. Can be in frames > or not, in my testing it makes no difference. > 1. SWF will dissapear when another window is positioned over the window > containing the SWF's > 2. When u click on whitespace inside the same <td> as the SWF, it disapears > 3. Window is positioned so that SWF's arent visible, reposition the window > so they are and they dont display.. > > Ok i think u get the drift... Theres a major redraw issue going on here. > > I have uninstalled the player, and reinstalled the latest version (on at > least 3-4 macs running OS9).. Ive authored the swf's on the mac, ive played > around with different methods of achieving a column based layout thru CSS > etc and still no good...... > > I've spent weeks on this job, and the only advice so far (from MM) has been > to change the layout... IF this is the only fix, why no technote ? Why isnt > this a documented bug/issue so us developers could avoid potential pitfalls > such as this. > > can anyone explain to me why this is happening, and if any a work around or > a solution that doesnt involve rebuilding my entire site. > > Seriously Frustrated... > > Jason :) > > --- You are currently subscribed to fugli as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
