I was working on a flash form and checking for onRelease on the form submission button as well as checking for the Enter key on the keyboard to be clicked while focus was on the flash movie. The user had to fill out the form on with their name and email address before the secondary screen would be displayed.
I could not get the enter controls to properly form check and keep the user from going on to the next screen. I would make a change, do a test output, and check. It would continually go on to the next screen and, of course, items would be “undefined”. The annoying thing, was that if you clicked on the button, everything worked as it should.
I then had the “brilliant idea of trying the movie in my browser. I loaded the fox and found that the controls were working perfectly. Enter and click, form checking, etc. All was as it should be. to double check that the movie was the same and worked the same, I went back to the flash viewer and it let you through to the next sections still (with “undefined”s and all).
My learned lesson: Check it in the browser before you get all panicky and start changing things that seem to be properly structured.
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