see MSLK.com

Since the variables seem to be different in every version of swfAddress, here’s a version-neutral way of doing it:

Find “this.setValue=function(VAR){” in the swfaddress.js, where VAR is something like _64 or similar. Replace that whole bit with

starts here –>this.setValue=function(VAR){
if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf(”Firefox”) >= 0 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf(”Mac”) >= 0) {
setTimeout(”SWFAddress.setValueWithDelay(’”+VAR+”‘);”,500);
}
else{
SWFAddress.setValueWithDelay(VAR);
}
};
this.setValueWithDelay=function(_64) {<– ends here

Remember to exchange VAR back to what it was, like _64.

This will add a delay only in Firefox on Macs.

with this code:

this.setValue=function(value){
if(_browser.isFirefox()){
setTimeout(”SWFAddress.setValueWithDelay(’”+value+”‘);”,500);
}
else{
SWFAddress.setValueWithDelay(value);
}
};

    this.setValueWithDelay=function(value) {

I just started using swfAddress and didn’t see a flicker in my learning url. And didn’t see any flicker in a new site build where I’m using swfAddress … for a while, then after I added a scrolling text box that uses dragger.onMouseUp = function() … bam, flicker. I switched the onMouseUp to onRelease and the flicker stopped.

Just thought I’d offer that up as something I’ve noticed, maybe I was using onMouseUp incorrectly to begin with.

I never used SWFObject so I am quite sure the ExternalInterface calls are the problem. But as this bug only surfaces in Firefox 3 Mac I suppose it is all the browsers fault and should be fixed there.

Until anybody will do this I propose modifying the javascript of SWFAdress but as the people over at Asual told me maybe adding a setTimeout() to the SWFAddress AS3 portion may do the trick as well or even better.

I prefer changing SWFAddress above doing it in my code because SWFAddress is commonly used and so I only have to change it once for all my projects.

Your solution for the SWFAddress should do the job in this specific case where SWFAddress is used.

At the moment adding a delay betwen Flash and JS seems to be the only solution.

you must replace

this.setValue=function

with the following term.

Best regards
Macm

I changed

this.setValue

to

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

Hello!

It’s a very annoying bug and all I could find on the internet is the proposal to put a delay between “SWFAddress.setValue(theValue);” and heavy calculating in Flash. But it doesn’t really work for my project and I keep getting random flickering effects.

So your post (especially the line setTimeout(”alert(’test 1 with timeout’)”, 1000);) inspired me to simply modify SWFAddress and add the delay THERE.

And (as I can tell for now) it works.

I replaced:

this.setValue=function

with

this.setValue=function(7e){if(21.isFirefox()){setTimeout(”SWFAddress.setValueWithDelay(’”+7e+”‘);”,500);}else{SWFAddress.setValueWithDelay(7e)}};this.setValueWithDelay=function

I would be very eager to hear about your experience with this little code snippet.

http://www.lessrain.com/projects/luis/as3/bugs/ff3mac/deploy/index2.html