In a DIRECT-L post Tuesday (titled “FlashMX2004 List + DMX2004 = FREEZE”), John Mathis of Inplicity documents 11 steps to lock up Director on Windows:
- Open Flash MX2004, create a new flash document.
- Drag a List component out a List component.
- Populate the List component manually with 5-6 items.
- Adjust the size of the List box. Just make it a bit bigger.
- Export a SWF file.
- Open Director MX2004…create a new movie.
- Import the test swf file & place it on the stage.
- Play the movie. Click line items & observe that it works fine.
- Stop the movie, and set the sprite to Background Transparent.
- Play the movie.
- Click line items and the system becomes unresponsive.
John’s results were on a Windows XP system. I was able to reproduce on Windows 2000 Server in both authoring and in a projector. Bizarrely — considering the Flash playback issues on the Mac in general — OS X seems unaffected.