Flash + RevBrowser + Mac Problems

[Ben Rubinstein]

Scott Rossi wrote:
> Has anyone on the list done much work with interactive Flash movies played
> within RevBrowser?
> 
> I have some Flash content that displays clickable products and runs great on
> Windows, but performance is terrible on OS X.  Clicks on the Flash content
> are intermittently unresponsive, and it seems the only way to trigger
> interactivity at all is to move the mouse outside the stack, and then back
> into the browser instance.  I not sure where to start to solve this issue
> because the same content/stack works as expected on Windows.

We've had some problems in this area recently, but perhaps not quite the same 
as yours.  We've been working with RevBrowser on OS X, for content that 
included some Flash elements.  Performance wasn't noticed as an issue, but 
interactivity, in particular dragging, was very difficult.  Where we had 
access to the source code, we found that recompiling in AS3 made a 
considerable difference; however we weren't able to fix all issues like this. 
  It seems that some ways that Flash/certain Flash movies detect mouse events 
don't work reliably under RevBrowser.

Other than compiling under AS3, if your work isn't already, I don't have 
anything to suggest; but it would certainly be good to build up some lore 
about this.

- Ben