IE problems with Mac built swf's

[MeestaRod]

Hi,

I am not having a problem with the active X systems, they might be a little long winded but hey there are solutions out there.

I have a website developed for my company, done entirely by me As it stands it works prfectly on any apple mac using safari, and there it all ends. The entire site, which is presently being rebuilt, will not load correctly or function correctly in IE, the problem is that there are a lot of progress bar components, all standard aside from a colour change that will not display progress correctly.

The irony is that sometimes the bars actually work, but never all of them and most still remain at 0 and never move.

I have the following AS in place on every progress bar component:

on (complete)
{
this.visible = false;
}

on (progress)
{
this.visible = true;
}

Now theye are appearing and disappearing in IE, the work perfectly in safari and generally on macs. On IE though sometimes they simply do not appear or appear and fail to display progress. They must be making progress else they would not have been hidden in the first place though.

All content is loaded into a loader component, each one loads a smple jpg or, at the highest level, another swf file. The files are there and are working but for some reason I can not fathom IE just will not function with any of it.

So in sequence:

1: Loads swf files into a loader with a progress bar component
2: The loaded swf files contents are loaded into loaders with progress bar components.

The code for the loader events is as such:

var BGLOC:String = "Images/01.jpg";

//Function assigned to load the background image/s
function LoadBG()
{
BGPBar.setStyle("themeColor", 0xFF0000);
BGLdr.autoLoad = false;
BGLdr.contentPath = BGLOC;
BGPBar.source = BGLdr;
BGLdr.load();
}

LoadBG();

I can find no error with my code anywhere, for one thing, as I have said it works perfectly on the Mac. Just not on IE or on PC's.

I have tried targeting lower flash players, despite loosing invert blend methods, I have tried to use different embed methods and object tags and nothing is working to rectify this, does anyone know what is wrong or how to fix it?

I am aware of Mac/PC font issues, and flash 8 embedding font issues, they are not playing a part in this problem.

Is it simply because it was built using Flash 8 Pro on a Mac? Sounds daft I know but it wouldn't be the firt time I have had this type of problem from Mr Jobbs.

I can recompile this all on a PC with Flash Pro 8 or MX 2004 also if that woold be a fix but I can't see why it would make such a difference?

Anyway, heres what it should look like and functions perfectly in Safari, please bear in mind that some of it is still unfinished:

http://www.formatimaging.co.uk/Temps/NewFI/index.html

You can try that with IE on a PC but it will not work. At all....you could however try this one:

http://www.formatimaging.co.uk/Temps/NewFI/main.html

Again please remember its a work in progress and the buttons are a complete mess in this one, I want it functioning before I pretty it all up again

Any help will be much appreciated!

Cheers,

[MeestaRod]

Fixed.

If you have a similar problem code the preloader yourself, do not rely on the built in objects to handle things as they simply will not work with IE when you dev things on a mac, also make sure to instantiate your preloader efore the objects begin loading to make sure that they are loaded.

[PixelLuv]

Good points! Thanks for the update.

[JacobHaug]

You know I have the same type of problem when ever I go to build an HTML website. IE always messes everything up. It will look great in every browser except for IE. I am almost at the point where I build 2 websites. One for IE and one for all the other browsers. I hate IE!!