Hey I've been trying out the new flash beta (hoping that since it supposedly reduces CPU load I could run the new practice page better), but I have a new problem. The page loads fine and looks right, but if I move the cursor over the canvas area, it disappears and the ink blot/pen doesn't follow. Numbers still work, space bar, etc from what I can tell, but obviously it isn't too useful without the writing part :)

Not that I am expecting immediate support of a just-released beta flash version, just thought you guys might want to know.

Peace.

What os are you using?

linux... i think this was with epiphany, i bounce around between that and firefox and I tried chromium but it was doing that "inkblot lags behind cursor" bug that other people mentioned even before I updated flash.

Anybody else tried out 10.1 beta yet?

I have actually! Nick had me download it last week to test it to see if it was any faster, and it is a bit. But I had no trouble using it...

I just reinstalled it and tested it both on Firefox and on Epiphany and it works fine on those. I haven't tried Chromium, but I have seen the cursor be very laggy on Opera, although I just checked that too and it does respond to mouse movement. All in all, flash isn't nearly as optimized for linux as it is on windows unfortunately :/

I'm using Fedora 10, by the way. Which distro are you using?

One thing, though, is that the flash actually gets the mouse location from Javascript. It's possible that it's getting messed up on the Javascript. That would explain why it's not moving; the Flash just isn't getting any information to move the cursor. I'd say make sure Javascript isn't throwing any errors (and that it's enabled though that would have a lot more repercussions than just mouse movement). Also, try refreshing all the resources for the page, Ctrl-F5.

Tested it a bit more this morning:

All new practice on Ubuntu 9.10 (upgraded from 9.04...)

Epiphany - Flash 10.1 - above problem (everything else loads, just the cursor in canvas has issues - how do you check for Javascript errors?)

Chromium 4 - Flash 10.1 - loads correctly but horrible lag between cursor and ink-pen thing makes it unusable

Firefox - stuck on 10.0.32 - works fine, if just a tiny bit too slow for me to use it all the time... maybe i'll try another way to upgrade the flash player later

Unfortunately I don't have any time to dive into this until I get back, first week of December. But I will unleash a plague of debugging assistance requests when I can, fear ye not!

I hate Adobe for their apparent lack of interest in Linux support. That is all.

I don't know how to check for JS errors in Epiphany, and Scott couldn't find it, either. There should be a way, though, and it would probably hold the key!

I've been trying to solve the issue where the default cursor persists in Chrome on top of the inkblot, but I've come up with nothing; just a few people complaining that it doesn't work, and other people saying, "Huh, works for me." I hope they can come through with a fix eventually. The lag between the two cursors is just indicative of generally slowness, but when the default cursor is still showing, it makes the experience much worse.

Hello,

In case you try to use skritter on google chrome with linux os you will get prompted to install Adobe Flasplayer (You'll need Adobe Flash Player to use Skritter) even if you have it installed on your system. This is the work around for this problem:

As root:

1) cd /opt/google/chrome
2) md plugins
3) look for the file 'libflashplayer.so' You will probably find it in /usr/lib/browser-plugins. Copy this file into the directory plugins that you created.

Restart Chrome and ...voilà...it works

Regards

Marc