Windows 7 and Flash

**cimics** · 4th July 2012, 04:25 AM

Leave to a computer upgrade to show problems with my game. My 8 player chess game worked fine as a flash game in Windows XP Home, both under Firefox and IE. Now, under Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit), it's seems broken under Firefox (it looks like the Get object is not working). Under IE it works, but now it shows stuff that is outside the window area, which it didn't before. As far as I can tell, my firefox installation is current. I'd like the game to work again in Firefox and I'd like it not to show the stuff that is outside the window in IE. Any ideas?

**Danny** · 4th July 2012, 08:22 AM

cimics - You need to specify and display the SWF object size in a html file, if you try to view the swf standalone in the browser in full screen or a bigger resolution than what the game is set at you will notice 'out of frame' objects.

If you're wondering why there was a difference between XP and 7 that's probably a software config setup with your browser and/or shockwave/flash files. Give it a try and let me know.

**blub** · 4th July 2012, 08:42 AM

Sorry for off-topic but 8 player chess?

Is this uploaded somewhere?

**cimics** · 5th July 2012, 04:18 AM

ByteDex -- I have resolution parameters set, but maybe it's not done right. Here is how it reads:

<html>

<head>
<title>MDMP Chess</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

<object classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
id="MDMP" width="640" height="480"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab">
<param name="movie" value="MDMP.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<embed src="MDMP.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff"
width="640" height="480" name="MDMP" align="middle"
play="true"
loop="false"
quality="high"
allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>
</body>
</html>

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blub --- You can find the game at http://www.sntjohnny.com/cimics/MDMP/MDMP.html

**cimics** · 5th July 2012, 01:37 PM

To clarify:

I have not been trying to run the swf file as a standalone in the browser. I use the file generated by MMF2, change the filename and title, and delete the sentence about it being an MMF flash application and clicking to focus. Perhaps I have inadvertantly messed something up in the process, but I don't think so. I might be able to work around this by moving all objects that are outside the play area to the left or the top outside the the play area. The problem seems to be that objects to the bottom or left of the play area are shown.

This problem doesn't happen on my work computer running Windows XP and using IE. It just happens when I go to the site on my home computer running Win7.

And there is still the issue that it is broken (but not entirely) under Firefox. Here are the three problems with Firefox:

1. url forwarding in the flash player doesn't work
2. Mochi ads don't work
3. Get object doesn't work

But game otherwise loads, so flash is at least partly working in Firefox. I tried updating the flash on Adobe's website and that doesn't seem to have changed anything. I can work around the first problem, but 2 & 3 are major issues.

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