Flash Movie Closing - leaving "sub" movies running

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paul_harv - 30 Jan 2008 21:46 GMT

I'm not a Flash guy, but have an app to maintain which has a Flash front end.

There is a main movie - background.swf and it loads a bunch of "sub" movies -
mainly graphs and other panels of information.

Something is sometimes causing the main movie - background.swf - to close,
leaving just one of the graph movies still running. The graph movie then scales
to take up 100% of the screen.

Can anyone suggest where I might look to figure why this is happening?
We're using Flash 6.0
The app, at the time it fails, is invoking a backend servlet to get XML, and
is maintaining a connection to Socket Server using an XMLSocket.
We have 4 of these clients open (all opened from the same .swf) and only one
of them is doing this.

Is it possible for a movie to close itself?

Thanks!

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MaxManNH - 06 Feb 2008 17:53 GMT

Sounds like the issue is that the movie is being overwritten by something or
the container of the movie is being overwritten. Not sure how it worked in
Flash 6, but it sounds like the background.swf is being loaded to an empty
movie clip or a container movie clip. Then when the servlet is invoked and
information returned something is dynamically removing or overwriting the empty
movie clip. Either that or there is an FSCOMMAND somewhere in the clip. I
believe that can also close a movie.

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