The above URL fails to load with Mozilla but succeeds with Netscape 4.x. Browser stops with the message Starting Plugin for type application/x-shockwave flash in the message bar at the bottom of the browser. Plugin is installed correctly and works on other sites properly. Javascript console shows the message Error: flashnav.SetVariable is not a function NOTE: Related Mozilla BugID 104355 is not the same problem (in my understanding of that bug)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104355 ***

Confirming bug on WinNT debug Mozilla trunk build 2002-02-10. The Shockwave Flash plugin never gets loaded. Here is the JS Console error I see: Error: flashnav.SetVariable is not a function Source File: http://www.ford.co.uk/firefly/CPR/CPRNav.asp?SessionID={ADDA2E67-D3A7-45E5-9198- 8B4003CE8408}&PageID=&NavID=home&SiteVerID=1&LangID=28 Line: 197 I will attach that HTML file below -

Line 197, where the error occurs is one with |flashnav.SetVariable| below: function init() { if (flashnavloaded) { flashnav = isIE ? window.document.flashnav : document.flashnav; // load information for the gts-buttons flashnav.SetVariable("languageUrl", "/firefly/spg/spg.asp?page=gtstexts&purehtml=true&Firefly=true&SiteVerID=1&LangI D=28&XSLTemplate=CPRgts"); etc. etc. The problem is this: |isIE| evaluates to false in Mozilla, leading us to the assignment |flashnav = document.flashnav| However, the HTML mixes up "flashnav" both as an id and as a name: <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve rsion=5,0,0,0" WIDTH=775 HEIGHT=63 id="flashnav"> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="nav.swf"> <PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=LT> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#ffffff> <EMBED name="flashnav" src="nav.swf" MAYSCRIPT swLiveConnect="true" menu=false loop=false quality=high salign=LT bgcolor=#ffffff WIDTH=775 HEIGHT=63 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Vers ion=ShockwaveFlash"> </EMBED> </OBJECT>

Reopening bug; I agree with dave@0bits.com that this is a different issue than Evangelism bug 104355, which has to do with document.layers errors.

What's happening here is that Mozilla is not resolving |flashnav.setVariable| as a function. I don't know if their HTML is correct or not, in the way they are trying to access the Shockwave plug-in. Reassigning to Plug-ins for a decision. Changing OS from Solaris ---> All

The following session from the Mozilla JavaScript Debugger shows that the variable |flashnavloaded| evaluates to true above, and the variable |flashnav| is successfully resolved as the <EMBED> element above: flashnavloaded $[boolean] true flashnav $[HTMLEmbedElement] [class: HTMLEmbedElement] typeof flashnav $[string] "object" However, the |SetVariable| property is undefined on it: typeof flashnav.SetVariable $[string] "undefined" I don't know; are Shockwave plug-ins supposed to have a |SetVariable| property, of type function?

Idea: I just noticed this in the <EMBED> element above: swLiveConnect="true" Is this bug happening because the site is asking Shockwave to use LiveConnect, when they should be using XPConnect?

Flash and Shockwave aren't scriptable yet.

Is it the same problem as in 111648 (Calling applet method from JavaScript doesn't work for <object><embed></embed></object>)?

No, flash is not scriptable yet and there is nothing we can do about it. --->over to evangelism

Sorry for being naive, but if Mozilla flash/shockwave isn't currently scriptable can this not be considered a regression from Netscape 4.x that this site *does* work with ? Have we lost some core code that used to work and now doesn't ? Will this be fixed for Mozilla 1.0 ? I don't know how this can be considered evangelism since this appears to be lack of functionality of the Mozilla browser ? How can we ask the site maintainer to fix something when it is the client browser that is broken ? Someone please enlighten me.

I think I have the same problem with the following JavaScript: === PRACTICE_EXAM = 64; /** * Set the header names and urls */ function init(){ // Send to movies column names & column URLs for (var i=1; i<examName.length; i++){ window.document["tblHdr"+i].SetVariable("hdrName",examName[i]); window.document["tblHdr"+i].SetVariable("hdrUrl",examUrl[i]); if (document.GradeBook["ExamType"+i].value == PRACTICE_EXAM) { window.document["tblHdr"+i].GotoFrame(3); } } } === The error message on the JavaScript Console is: Error: window:document["tblHdr" +i].SetVariable is not a function The script works with Netscape 4.x and IE and it would be nice to see it working with Mozilla 1.0 too.

duplicate of bug 110441?

Error: top.menuFrame.document.embeds[0].SetVariable is not a function Source File: http://www.cosmod.com/1/00.html Line: 11 var InternetExplorer = navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1; if (InternetExplorer) { top.menuFrame.menu.SetVariable("/:base_index", "204") } else { top.menuFrame.document.embeds[0].SetVariable("/:base_index", "204") } Error: top.menuFrame.document.embeds[0].SetVariable is not a function Source File: http://www.cosmod.com/1/00.html Line: 11 The above code works for Internet Explorer and Netscape 4.x, but causes an error in Mozilla build ID: 2002053012

Another example of this problem straight from Macromedia: Example of JavaScript-to-Flash communication http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/java_script_comm/javascript_to_flash.html It works in IE but not in Mozilla. I discovered this problem on a site which had a flash ad which was unusable because the address the ad should've forwarded the user to was set through the .SetVariable function. "document.banner170.SetVariable("banner_href","http://sj4.lenta.ru/cgi-bin/href/170?728856&login=ntv-inner-234");"

This is really a dup of bug 110441. This is sort of not a regression from 4.x because 4.x used ancient technology for allowing plugins to communicate with Javascript. Gecko now uses XPConnect and plugin authors must do some simple upgrades to their 4.x plugins as described here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins Macromedia is in the process of doing this. Netscape employees who would like to help test a version of the Flash player that is Javascriptable, please see the e-mail from Paul Wyskoczka (paw@netscape) send to cpd-all on where to download. Using that player, this bug should be able to be verified. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110441 ***

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