Comments on: FF3 breaks SWFAddress (sometimes) on OS X

By: swfaddress firefox 3 fix | Emak Mafu Labs Blog

swfaddress firefox 3 fix | Emak Mafu Labs Blog — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:43:11 +0000

[...] some of our sites have been a little temperamental as we use swfaddress heavily in our production. This blog seems to be the place to solve this problem, but i had to fafe about getting the uncompressed [...]

By: Marcel-André Casasola Merkle

Marcel-André Casasola Merkle — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:56:31 +0000

Just follow the link my name points to and copy the swfaddress.js

Best regards
Macm

By: Jayden

Jayden — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:11:20 +0000

Thanks Macm. I ended up using an old version of SWFObject… couldnt waste any more time on it! Do you have a site that you’ve successfully run it on? I could just inspect and borrow the code if you’re okay with it… will save you any hassles.

Regards,

Jayden

By: Marcel-André Casasola Merkle

Marcel-André Casasola Merkle — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:48:32 +0000

Dear Jaden,

maybe calling your function with a timeout in Flash

setTimeout(SWFAddress.setValue(),1000,”newAdress”);

should do the trick as well without modifying SWFAddress.

If this doesn’t help I could send you my modified version of SWFAddress.

Best regards
Macm

By: Jayden

Jayden — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:19:59 +0000

Macm - tried following your instructions but couldn’t get it to work? I’m using SWFAddress 2.1, SWFObject v2.1 with the static publishing method. Before making yoru alterations, it works on the PC with IE 6/7, but no deal in FF3… and then after your altercations it doesn’t seem to function in either browser :(

By: Marcel-André Casasola Merkle

Marcel-André Casasola Merkle — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:34:29 +0000

Sorry, a little error in my previous post: you must replace

this.setValue=function

with the following term.

Best regards
Macm

By: Marcel-André Casasola Merkle

Marcel-André Casasola Merkle — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:30:26 +0000

Inspired by Luis’ post I modified SWFAdress rather then putting the delay in Flash. Works fine for me and is easier to handle.

I changed
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this.setValue
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to
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this.setValue=function(_7e){if(_21.isFirefox()){setTimeout(”SWFAddress.setValueWithDelay(’”+_7e+”‘);”,500);}else{SWFAddress.setValueWithDelay(_7e)}};this.setValueWithDelay=function
———-
including a delay if Firefox is the browser.

It works for my project but it would be nice to hear if it also solves the problem for others.

Macm

By: epologee

epologee — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:35:42 +0000

Found a solution to my case over at Sean Musick’s blog. Introduce a tiny delay between any heavy calculations in your flash and the call to the SWFAddress’s javascript methods: http://seanmusick.com/blog.cfm?id=24

Cheers // ep

By: epologee

epologee — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:28:38 +0000

Hey there Joshua, your blog seems to be one of the better ranked articles about this blinking effect - I’m experiencing it too. Have you or any of the other readers already found a solution?

Cheers // ep

By: ben

ben — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:07:28 +0000

We have the blinking problem as well. anyone found a solution?
gr, ben