themirthfulswami
01-15-2009, 08:45 PM
I've never in all my years of working with Flash come across something like this. I'm working on a website for my group here at work, fairly typical stuff. Across the bottom of my site, I have a dynamic icon bar that loads in an XML file and populates itself with content (loads images, links, etc). If specified, the icons can have small popup menus with sub-selections when clicked.. the sub-menu list is pulled out of a CDATA element in the XML file and put into an HTML textbox in the menu MovieClip. Now, when you open and close one of these menus a couple of times, the Flash player will crash.. whether in standalone mode or in a browser. Sometimes it will say its a CiceroUIWndFrame error (related to a Microsoft Office module) or it'll be a plain Application Error with a "memory can not be read" message. This happens on every computer I've tried it on. It's repeatable, but sometimes it takes more open/closes than others.
Anyone ever encounter this before?
EDIT : I just now narrowed it down slightly.. here's the scenario :
In my sub-menu movieclip, there is a 4-line text box. If the text in the box is longer than 4 lines, a scrollbar appears allowing the user to scroll the sub-menu. If the user CLOSES the menu without scrolling, or closes the window with the scroll bar all the way in the UP position, its fine. If the user closes the sub-menu with the scroll bar "down" further, it will crash the Flash player.
EDIT#2 : As a workaround, I have the script change the scroll property of the sub-menu text box to 0 before it closes the menu and it no longer crashes. So bizarre....:eek:
Anyone ever encounter this before?
EDIT : I just now narrowed it down slightly.. here's the scenario :
In my sub-menu movieclip, there is a 4-line text box. If the text in the box is longer than 4 lines, a scrollbar appears allowing the user to scroll the sub-menu. If the user CLOSES the menu without scrolling, or closes the window with the scroll bar all the way in the UP position, its fine. If the user closes the sub-menu with the scroll bar "down" further, it will crash the Flash player.
EDIT#2 : As a workaround, I have the script change the scroll property of the sub-menu text box to 0 before it closes the menu and it no longer crashes. So bizarre....:eek: