Originally posted by gorky2
Originally posted by bereft_m
If you are trying to construct a clock, see this thread

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=228259

Scroll towards the bottom of it..Hilary did one in Koolmoves. There is one I did in Koolmoves and Javascript.
this cool clock works fine with internet explorer 6 and flashplayer 5, but doesnot work in a netscape 4.7 with a flashplayer 4. Is this the browser or the old flash player, which doesnt work with math.objects?

thanks

gorky
Its a combination of things;

None of the actionscripting will work with the Flash 4 or lower players, as it is entirely based around the SWF 5 format, while the built in actions are compatible with the flash 4+ player. This is why it is important to know which version of the standalone player you are using. You must use the Flash 5 standalone if you used actionscripting. Everything but Send data, Load Dynamic Text, Mp3 Sound, and Dynamic text are compatible with Flash 3. This is Macromedia's Doing. The Built in add to web page and export to HTML + SWF has a check for the apropriate player script built right into it and is self generating.

Also this is just FYI, if you were using the <embed> tag to place SWF on your Web Pages it will not work for MSIE 5.5 SP 2 for MS Windows or Higher. NS 6.1 and higher in standards mode, Opera, Mozilla in standards mode will properly display the animation with either the <embed> or <object> tags. Old versions FP Express and FP(2000 and lower) use the <Embed> Tag for plug-ins so it is no longer suitable to design pages with Plug-Ins with those Web Editors them. You need to check generated HTML to make sure it is indeed using the Object and Embed Tags with any web editor if you want cross platform/browser compliance.

Also NS, or rather Java dropped it with the Java 2 JRE, dropped Live Connect so JS/Flash communication using FS Commands does not work with newer versions of NS. FS Commands were developed to acommadate MSIE 3 which could not handle Javascript in Get URL in the first place so its not a real loss as MSIE 4 and higher can handle this now. It is was never suitable to design with the FS command becuase Almost all Mac and Linux Browsers could not process the FS Commands.

Sorry if that confuses anyone.