maxxnas
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Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 7 May 2008 at 15:34 GMT
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I wanted to know if any of the forum members are having any problems with their Flash Produced tours using Internet Explorer.
I use Tourweaver 3.0 Pro and Flash Panorama. My Tourweaver Tours which worked fine 2 weeks ago are now sticking in full screen mode and my Flash Panorama tours aren't even visible anymore.
I'm running Windows XP media edition with automatic updates enabled and IE 7.0.
I noticed that the Tourweaver flash tours work fine in Firefox. The Flash Panoramam Tours do not work in Firefox at all.
I was just at one of my clients and checked their computer running IE and the same thing happened.
Is this a windows thing? I have three computers with copies of my tours running locally and the problem is still there.
I also checked on my Vista system but everything seems ok there. Any input would be appreciated.
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Hans Nyberg
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 7 May 2008 at 15:39 GMT
updated: 7 May 2008 at 15:40 GMT
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When you say Tourweaver tours is that the flash version?
What other Flash Panorama are you talking about.
FPP?
Can we have some links to test please.
Hans
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maxxnas
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Hans Nyberg
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 7 May 2008 at 16:33 GMT
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I can not see them in Safari either and as I can see you use panostripe I am 99% sure whats wrong.
You can find several threads on the FPP forum about it.
In short, since flash version 9.0.115 you can not use images longer than 8191 pixels.
flashpanoramas.com/forum/showthread.php?t=745
There is no problem with cubefaces.
So you problem is not IE but updated flash, Remember that on windows you can very well have 2 flashversions as Firefox and IE do not use the same.
Hans
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Smooth
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maxxnas
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 7 May 2008 at 21:11 GMT
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Thanks Hans and Smooth,
Uninstalled all flash plug-ins and reinstalled the latest Flash Player version 9,0,124,0
No luck. The behavior is still the same. And as far as my FPP panos go, I can't even view them online or locally.
This amazes me. How can something work perfectly for 6 months and then stop working? I'll post if I figure anything else out.
FYI...My panos are 4000 x 2000 Non-Cubic (Tourweaver Flash)
and 5000 x 2500 Non-Cubic (FPP)
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Hans Nyberg
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 7 May 2008 at 21:30 GMT
updated: 7 May 2008 at 21:35 GMT
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I have checked the FPP version and it is not correct that your images are 5000x2500
You use a strip image which is 9552x1592 and that will not work with the latest flashversions
Here is the link to your image
http://www.riverviewcountryclub.com/pano2/images/panostripe.jpg
Hans
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maxxnas
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 7 May 2008 at 22:34 GMT
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Hans,
I wasn't thinking....I work so much with Tourweaver that my math was wrong. Technically my FPP images are 5000 x 2500 Spherical but I forgot I converted them to Cubic for FPP (stripes) which is 9552 x 1592 (over the limit).
I reconverted to 4250 x 2125 Spherical which landed me in at 8118 x 1353 Cubic.
In this time and age with high speed connections and bigger bandwidth aren't we suppose to be moving forward and not backwards? No Kudos to Adobe for putting these restrictions on Flash.
Thanks again Hans for your insight!
Now I need to work out the Tourweaver issue.
Regards,
Bob
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Hans Nyberg
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 7 May 2008 at 22:38 GMT
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Thanks
Now
To Windows test.
Jut got my XP disc updated to SP3 and IE 7.
Hans
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Doug Aurand
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 8 May 2008 at 1:13 GMT
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Bob
I'm curious why you "reconverted to 4250 x 2125 Spherical which landed me in at 8118 x 1353 Cubic" instead of just resizing the cubic strip to 8190 x 1365 in Photoshop?
Doug Aurand
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maxxnas
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 8 May 2008 at 7:09 GMT
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Doug,
The first thing I did was resize the image in Photoshop (thats the graphic designer in me -lol) but when I viewed it in FPP it was all messed up. I decided then to take the cubic image & convert it back to a spherical. Please note I only have Panoweaver 5.0 for stitching. Then I resized the spherical in photoshop, brought it back into Panoweaver and reconverted back into a cubic. Then everything worked fine.
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Smooth
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 8 May 2008 at 7:14 GMT
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Hmm,
I have a panorama at 9024x1504 playing fine using Fiero's DevalVR script and Flash 9
I also have no issue when compiling or playing the files created with Pano2VR (Flash)
Regards, Smooth 
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Hans Nyberg
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 8 May 2008 at 8:00 GMT
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Smooth
Pano2VR does not use the file you supply to anything else than to convert it to cubefaces which are included in the SWF.
Same like if you do a QTVR from it.
I do not understand what you mean with DevalVR script. As far as I know you can only use pano2VR or Pano2QTVR flash files with it.
I know someome did try to get it working with FPP but I never seen a page with it.
Hans
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Smooth
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Re: Recent Microsoft and Flash Problems
Posted: 8 May 2008 at 8:23 GMT
updated: 8 May 2008 at 8:24 GMT
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Exactly!
So a proper complied self contained .swf file doesn't have the problem (listed above) with file sizes. It would appear only those calling data from an external .XML script do.
I'm sure Fiero can make the DevalVR script work with FPP because it doesn't have any issue with Immervision Java doing the same .XML calling. Ask him direct to look at it.
Regards, Smooth
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