Why is my swf causing the Flash Player to crash.

Question

I've got a flex-based swf, which is loading an AS 2-based swf and then, negotiating further activity via a LocalConnection. From time to time, the AS 2-swf can request that the flex-based swf load a movie. I've arranged this via on(release){} functions.

The AS 2-swf, I'm making in Swish Max. In Swish, when i set the on (release) on a text field, (to invoke .send() on my localconnection), it works splendidly. However, when I attempt to perform the same calls for an on(release) attached to a movieclip, it actually causes the Flash player, and even the browser plugin to crash. In fact, the browser (IE) crashes as well.

I checked the debug trace that ie asked me to send to microsoft at the last IE crash, and i noticed a StackOverflow exception embedded deep in the trace, but I couldn't determine its source.

Can you help me understand what's going on here?

Answer 1

Are you having more than one LocalConnection connect to the same channel? This will cause the browser to crash.

Answer 2

Are you sending lots of requests at the same time, this will make it crash, and some browsers are more sensitive for those things than other.

Answer 3

This earlier post might have some helpful tips for you.

Answer 4

That's a wrong way to debug your application. Use your Flex Builder's debugging tool instead. You tend to lay blame on LocalConnection as it is the most complex part of the operation, when it could just as easily be an infinite loop.

You don't seem to be using the right tools either. I'd trust FF's FireBug over IE's dump. Besides, we'll need to see some more code before we can accurately tell you what's wrong.

Answer 5

Are you sure the crash is not only in your computer? Try running the FlashUtil??.exe at \WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\ to fix/update the Flash installaction. There are some known issues that corrupt Flash installation so it become unstable when using some objects.