Page 1 of 1

Flash not starting on unfocused tabs?

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:59 pm
by JAB Creations
Using Firefox Flash objects are not automatically starting when the Flash object on the previous page loads the second page. The second page does load though until you display the tab in Firefox the Flash object doesn't start playing.

This is the opposite of what I want as many people listen to my site's Music Player while doing other things. It would be a hassle for them to have to continuously give my site's tab focus just to start the Flash object!

I'm 100% sure I'm doing this correctly and even attempted the opposite by checking "paused at start" in the HTML publish settings to ensure I was using the correct XHTML parameter and of course I was. The timeline is completely identical to the working correctly functioning versions (using Flash 8 now) so I assuming Flash has implemented something retarded without it being present in the public settings window. Here is a sample of my XHTML...

Code: Select all

<object data="mplayer/jab-creations-2.0-01-hi.swf" id="mplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<span>It appears you do not have the <a accesskey="8" class="icon external" href="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" rel="external" tabindex="9" title="Flash Plugin">Flash</a> plugin installed is required for this presentation.</span>
 <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
 <param name="movie" value="mplayer/jab-creations-2.0-01-hi.swf" />
 <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
 <param name="loop" value="false" />
 <param name="play" value="true" />
</object>

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:12 am
by JAB Creations
So initially only the retardation I was dealing with was apparent though what's also apparent now is that Flash is completely screwed up on here. How though can I remove it before reinstalling it? Overwriting it doesn't seem to be working and my Flash files are working fine on a second computer.