Layers not Previewing in Certain Browsers

Hello! I have contacted Macromedia and recieved no insight. Hopefully someone
out there can help?
I am using Dreamweaver 3.0. I made a simple test page with only one image and
one layer, and applied a show/hide
behavior to it. It previewed fine in Internet Explorer and Netscape 4.5, but
it will not preview in Netscape 7.0.
I can't figure out why not. Any ideas, anyone??
Thanks!
Lindarm

On 06 Jul 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, lindarm wrote:

Hello! I have contacted Macromedia and recieved no insight.
Hopefully someone out there can help?
I am using Dreamweaver 3.0. I made a simple test page with only
one image and one layer, and applied a show/hide behavior to it. It
previewed fine in Internet Explorer and Netscape 4.5, but it will
not preview in Netscape 7.0. I can't figure out why not. Any
ideas, anyone??

Wow - I haven't seen this one in a while. There's an update to one of
the scripts that DW uses to do the show/hide. It works OK in older
browsers, but Moz-based browsers choke on it. I *think* the script is
MM_findObj, and if it is, the version should be 4.01. 4.01 looks like
this:

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
var p,i,x;
if(!d) d=document;
if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document;
n=n.substring(0,p);}
if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n];
for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++)
x=d.forms[i][n];
for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++)
x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
if(!x && d.getElementById)
x=d.getElementById(n);
return x;
}

Replace your script with this one, and it should work. Otherwise, give
us a URI to your page so we can have a look at the code.

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Oh My Gosh!!! It worked!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
I was REALLY getting frustrated... thank you so much, really!!!
I know I need to update everything, but I can't seem to find a way to upgrade
from
Dreamweaver 3.0 to 4.0 or whatever, because I'm still using OS 9.2- haven't
made the leap to OSX yet.
Anyway, thank you again. I really appreciate it!!

On Tue 06 Jul 2004 03:16:06p, lindarm wrote in macromedia.dreamweaver:

Oh My Gosh!!! It worked!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Steady...

I was REALLY getting frustrated... thank you so much, really!!!
I know I need to update everything, but I can't seem to find a way to
upgrade from Dreamweaver 3.0 to 4.0 or whatever, because I'm still
using OS 9.2- haven't made the leap to OSX yet. Anyway, thank you
again. I really appreciate it!!

OK - here's what you're going to do to avoid this again:

In whatever directory/folder you have DreamWeaver installed, there are a
series of subfolders containing configuration files. In one of them
(%programpath%\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Configuration\Behaviors\Actions
for DWMX; earlier versions are, as I recall, similar) is a file called
MM_findObj.js Edit that file with your favorite text editor, and
replace the text with:

..:Start below this line:.
// Copyright 2000,2001 Macromedia, Inc. All rights reserved.
//Given a unique object name, finds the object in the DOM. dom is used for recursion
//and is not normally passed in. For example:
// obj = MM_findObj("image1");
//obj will point to the image object. It can be in layers, frames etc.
//To look in other frames, use objName?frameName. For example:
// obj = MM_findObj("image1?topFrame");
//will only search frame "topFrame".
//Now works for Netscape 6 as well!

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

MM.VERSION_MM_findObj = 4.01; //define latest version number for behavior inspector
..:End above this line:.

This will update the function so that when you use it again, you'll have
the latest version. It should also update the function in existing
pages, although it pays to check them.