getURL not working in IE??

I am having the following issue, is my problem related to the above?

I have this simple code on a button and all seemed to be working well until I cut the movie to CD. From the CD I click on the button and nothing happens. I am not sure what additional information to provide so please ask me for the whatever you may need to assist. Thanks in advance.

on (release){
getURL("docs/tm9-2815-257-24.swf","_blank")
}

> So in theory:
>
> on (release) {
> getURL(prodID+".pdf", "_blank");
> }
>
> should work fine?

Yes, that should work. Except that I've heard there are problems with trying to open PDFs. The getURL part should work, though. I've personally not had problems opening a PDF with getURL, but I can't remember the last time I had to do that.

So in theory:

on (release) {
getURL(prodID+".pdf", "_blank");
}

should work fine?

I'm thinking that my coding throughout is too simple, because loading my movie into IE constantly does wacky f*cked up things that don't happen in any other browser.

Well, my particular problem was that getURL() was being blocked in IE if not in an onRelease event. So I something like this:

on(release){
evaluateLinkage();
}
function evaluateLinkage(){
getURL('whatever','_blank');
}

Would not work, because even though getURL is being called from within a function which is being called in an onRelease, it's not directly in the onRelease so IE blocks it. Lame, but my solution was to just make my code so the getURL was in the onRelease, which broke some of my logic and I had to use some hacks, but it worked.

yes, i also know little to nothing about how pop-up blockers work. but i keep mine active because i get annoyed when i click on a link and some advertisement/garbage opens up.

and i sure remember visiting some websites would lead to all kinds of pop-ups followed by more pop-ups followed by more pop-ups making it very difficult and mandatory to close down all browser windows.

True, but it just really complicates things for Flash, since normally you can just click "allow pop-up" on a regular site, but on a Flash site that restarts the entire site. Still, good to know the limitations now.

If I was creating a pop-up blocker, my solution to the problem with loops/intervals would be to detect "too many" calls in a short period of time and block them all, not blindly block all "_blank" calls. Also it confuses me why some "_blank" calls from user events, such as onPress or onRelease, get blocked. But I don't develop such apps, so I speak out of ignorance.

it's pretty easy to define a for-loop or even setInterval() loop that would cause 100's or even 1000's of pop-ups and crash someone's system. pop-up blockers are a good thing.

that sounds like a pop-up blocker issue. many of use pop-up blockers (and apparently, at least, one of your browsers does, too.

Well, it appears that after 3 years of Flash experience I'm still an extremely slow learner. It took me literally 5+ hours to discover what many of you already know:

getURL() is blocked by modern browsers(including IE and FF1.5+) if outside of certain interactive events(such onRelease). After I found this out, I did some searches on getURL and issues, and find that there are tons of problems all over the place with browsers and Flash getURL these days. Problems both I'm experiencing during testing and reading about seem very inconsistent(for instance, in one case on(release) getURL is blocked, while onRelease getURL on the same object with same params is not, IE only). I really need to find a good resource that documents this, so I can predict how my Flash will behave for the market.

Don't ya just love how technology makes things so much easier? ;-) Still like Flash, just not been a good week. :-)

kglad

Here are my latest test files:
http://abeall.com/JStest.fla
http://abeall.com/JStest.html

I carefully deconstructed my movie, and believe I have isolated it to two problems(that were together rendering getURL useless). I'll admit first off that, as you might have guessed, there was some misinterpretation on my part as to what Flash was doing.

I said that getURL was not operating at all in IE. This was false. In actuality, it was simply effectively doing nothing because of two problems:

1) IE blocks getURL calls to a _blank window.
2) IE limits the message size of javascript:alert(message) calls(and my message was too large... a 10+ page form POST array)

At other points during testing there were other unrelated problems that were causing no javascript to function at all, or getURL calls blocked by security measures, and I failed to test *every* possible combination untill now to isolate the problems.

That said, these are two huge problems with IE I was not aware of(didn't used to be like this?), or I am further doing something wrong to cause them. But IE is definately blocking getURL(url,"_blank") calls, and this is a huge problem for my project, and almost dehibilitating and certainly deterring me from using Flash in the future for most projects that hereto I would have promoted Flash for. Also the limitation on the javascript really worries me, I have that feeling I have no idea what else will fail.

So, any advice or insight on these two issues would be highly valued. Thanks.