I had this in the Stnadalone board for a couple of days and not one answer! So I moved it here to see if maybe ya'll could give me a hand... (I deleted it from the standalone section!)
All right, here the deal is. I have a game that a friend of mine wrote for me in Flash 4. It cannot be updated to 5 w/out hours of work, so I am trying to leave it alone (not mess w/ the code). It is approx 450 x 300 in size, and is being loaded from a 640 x 480 movie. I have a menu system in a swf file that uses the loadmovie command to load the game. The game loads, and the fun begins...
First, I had it just loading the game and had allowscale at true. This never worked, mainly because of the size difference, (Flash keeps the atributes of the first movie when loading the new one, specficly the size, framerate, and bg color...), I think, but none of the commands (buttons) did a d**m thing. So I tried to fix it by having a blank movie, named test.swf, be the movie that is loaded and the game then loaded into level 1 on the test.swf movie. I figured that this would make it so that when the movie scales, it does it right (the game, if started on it's own can scale to full screen no problem...) and the buttons should work. And it did, on my computer, and then on my friends computer, and then it froze on the next two computers I tried. There is nothing simmilar or different about these four computers, they are of different speeds, but the 3rd one was comparable to mine (good, fast, whatever), and the fourth one was slightly slower than the friends computer (lowest common denominator).
Not only do none of the buttons work, but it apears to freeze flash as wel, making the escape key not work correctly and not closing the full screen mode. The only way to do anything is to control alt delete it and close the flash player. That's it. Completely random... And it's not in the code for the game because the game, when opened by itself, works fine... or when opened by the test.swf file. It's just when I link it from the 640 x 480 menu system that I have this problem.
Any ideas? Please let me know, I have been trying to get this to work since Thursday, and I thought I had solved it when it worked on my and my friends computer: But I hadn''t. Very frustrating!!!!!
Thanks for the help
DS