211218 - Javscript to flash communication and vice versa does not work under linux

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: XPConnect, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Eichner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

The Macromedia-examples for Javascript-Flash-communication do not work with
Mozilla 1.4 (stable) under linux (other Javascript-to-Flash-comms that i tried
do not work either)

The examples do work under windows with Mozilla 1.4 (stable). Mozilla 1.3 does
work, Firebird 0.6 does work too.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the website metioned above
2. Go to "JavaScript to Flash communication" example 1
3. As written in the example: enter text into html-field, click outside, press tab
Actual Results:  
The flash film does not display the text from the html-field

Expected Results:  
The text should have been displayed in the html-field via
JavaScript-to-Flash-Communication.

I think it's a major bug, as many sites depend upon this feature and it worked
in 1.3 (i checked this again today).

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

This bug is invalid, because it is a known bug, as it is written in release
notes, "New Issues" :

"If you're using the Linux GCC 3.2 binaries compiled by mozilla.org then
JavaScript access to Flash will not work."

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4/README.html#new-issues

Read the release notes before posting a bug, thanks ;-}

Closing bug as invalid.

Please reopen it if I am wrong.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Verified.  The "bug" is that the GCC ABI has changed from version 2 to version
3, and the JS-to-Flash code in Flash needs to have the browser using the same
ABI.  Which means you need a version of the Flash plugin built with GCC 3.x.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Works with Flash Player 7.0r25.