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Thanks for your information.
On Saturday night, We changed 1 setting in 5 training classes. Mulitple websites seemed to indicate this changed may help. To note, you can not do this via action script or using parameters in the html object tag. Not sure why, it would be nice if they included into the object tags?
Anyhow...These 5 training classes are the most frequently hit courses and would create a nice composite for checking the problem.
if the problem (flash crashing) starts to shrink, trend higher or stay the same.
The setting "Script time Limit" is defaulted to 15 seconds.
I raised it to be 60 on these training courses.
Do not know if it will help at all. I wait for feedback and statistics from our computer labs.
To note: Our training courses are setup in a Shell which "pull in" other SWF, MP3, XML,FLV and JPG files. The shell's timeline is stopped while a child SWF is playing. Which has always seem to work fine and continues to work on 97% of computers. But based on the "FLASH PLAYER" requiring the timeline to be updated or else it errors out. Could be the problem....
Thinking outloud:
In other words, another website explained it to me as Looping conditions are fine as long as the "Timeline" has been updated at least 1x in 15 seconds. Not sure if this is true, but it is my interpretation so far. These is strange considering the fact "Audio" can play continously via action sript with out ever updating the timeline (swithing to a different frame). So if this was the case, "Flash" would crash consistently every 15 seconds.
SO now my question is. "What does the Flash Player consider as 'updating the timeline'"?
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Can anyone explain in simple words what the script time limit exactly is?
the time limit for code that starts to execute and then continues to execute
without allowing the stage to update.
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Here is something else i found:
Your issue made me think of race conditions. Andrew Rapo and Alex Michael speak of "race conditions" in their book Understanding Macromedia Flash 8.0 Actionscript 2: basic techniques for creatives (2006, Focal Press).
Here is how the authors explain it:
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The term, 'race condition,' refers to the situatio where instructions will produce different results when executed in a different order, and teh order of execution is inconsistent. Race conditions can produce intermittent bugs (errors), and these are the hardest to track down and fix. (page 46)
They go on to explain that the ability to employ multiple timelines makes race conditions more likely in Flash applications. To avoid race conditions:
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The only solution is to entralize the important code and have all of the varioius MovieClips and event handlers report back to an authoritative "application controller".
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Another blog I found
http://blog.justgreat.nl/2007/08/24/joy-with-the-script-timeout-period/comment-page-1/
Just great; I forgot to mention HOW to set the timeout . Well here is how:
You can’t set the timeoutperiod by code (neither in as3 nor in as2). You have to set the timeout manually in the publish settings of your fla: Ctrl+Shift+F12 > flash-tab > “Script time limit”.
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