February 12, 2012

Top rotation flash change again

I've made a couple more changes to the flash file. To get the latest version you'll need to flush your browser cache.

There are several changes but only a couple that you'll notice. There's a hotspot in the upper left corner. Mouse-over it, and an information frame appears in the middle. It's debug information for me and meaningless to you, but if you ever get a blank top image, I'd appreciate it if you'd write the numbers down and post them for me.

I also wanted to make it so you could reload the image without reloading the entire page. I tried making a button that did that, but it seems to leak 4K of memory each time, and I can't figure out why. So if you're really inclined to do this, you can right-click the flash and choose "play", and you'll get another image, and you'll leak 4K of memory.

The memory comes back when you close the browser window, and 4K really isn't a lot, but don't abuse it. It may abuse you back again.

UPDATE: I modified it again. The upper right corner is now a button which causes a new image to load.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Site Stuff at 10:51 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment
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1 Don't necessarily need a full flush--I hate doing that.  In Chrome, Shift+F5 will force-reload the whole page including the flash.

Posted by: RickC at February 13, 2012 03:45 PM (/5bLf)

2 Ctrl-F5 works in Firefox.

And crossing the streams:  Hitting 'play' got me a grey image!

Total # of images 994
Random Choice 519
Seconds since midnight 58599
[Calculation] 472
Title 10
Choice 21

Posted by: Douglas Oosting at February 13, 2012 04:19 PM (sdWdc)

3

Thanks, Douglas. I think that must have just been a server glitch, a load fail. I have seen that particular picture:

/top/SKM_0021.jpg

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 13, 2012 04:29 PM (+rSRq)

4 Same thing happened to me, btw:  gray image with play.  Random choice 7, seconds since midnight 67591, mod 6, title 0, choice within title 7.

Posted by: RickC at February 13, 2012 04:47 PM (/5bLf)

5 I see the image flash momentarily before the frame goes grey upon "Play".

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at February 13, 2012 05:09 PM (G2mwb)

6 Yeah, sometimes that'll happen. It isn't really something I can do anything about, and it doesn't strike me as being a problem, particularly.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 13, 2012 05:28 PM (+rSRq)

7 Sounds like I should put the "reload" button back in, given what I'm seeing here.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 13, 2012 05:29 PM (+rSRq)

8 I'm seeing the grey image every other time I hit play or the button on the upper right. I don't need it to work, but I work in software so I'm filing the bug report out of habit. If no one else encounters this behavior, chalk it up to my machine being wonky and move on.

Posted by: benzeen at February 13, 2012 07:44 PM (R9i5E)

9 I'm getting the same behavior.

Posted by: muon at February 13, 2012 07:56 PM (JXm2R)

10

That's very peculiar, because I'm not having any such problem. I don't have any idea what the problem might be.

As long as you get an image the first time, when you first load the page, then it's doing what it's supposed to do. I guess I would say.

I don't know what to do about this -- except maybe to suggest that you update your flash plugin.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 13, 2012 08:29 PM (+rSRq)

11 It worked fine at first for me, but then it started getting wonky. Now it's the same as benzeen and muon.  I tried closing the browser and reopening it, but no such luck. Literally, every other picture is gray.  Using Firefox 10.0.1, Flash 11,1,102,55 installed (most recent)

Posted by: ubu at February 13, 2012 08:37 PM (GfCSm)

12 Well, I get an image every first time so you may not consider this a serious issue but I might as well report it: every time I click it (whatever is it in the upper-right corner) I get no-pic/pic/no-pic/pic/no-pic/pic/... and so on, regardless of the picture. I thought it may have been my firefox but I got the same issue with chrome (addon-free)

Posted by: Jaked at February 13, 2012 11:06 PM (KqjLP)

13 Curiouser and curiouser...If I run the swf by itself, everything works fine. If I save the main page, swf, and css to disk, everything works fine. Its only when I load the page from the mee.nu servers that I get the alternating gray image. I am perplexed...

But anyways, yes, the first image always works, and that's all I'll ever actually use (although now that I think about it, might the every-other-image-is-gray be useful for quickly hiding a less-than-work-appropriate picture? Call it a feature!)

Posted by: benzeen at February 13, 2012 11:37 PM (R9i5E)

14 Grey image.  numbers were: 994, 49, 28437, 654, 14, 18.  

Posted by: amarigatachi at February 14, 2012 04:56 AM (kSykh)

15 Alright, already.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 14, 2012 04:59 AM (+rSRq)

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