SWF in Powerepoint

This is perhaps just a discussion point, but when I creat a swf from a timeline in After Effects (easy enough to do: File > Export > Adobe Flash Player) and I insert it into PowerPoint, it will not play. But when I render an avi file, it won't open in Flash until I convert it to a flv or fv4. I import the file, then publish it as a swf, if plays just fine in PowerPoint. Somehow this seems uh, pointless to have to go through all these processes. Even if I just made the AE compositon a dynamic link in Premiere Pro, I'd still have to open Premiere Pro and output the file as a flv, import it into Flash, then publish. This is a suboptimal workflow to get something to play in PowerPoint, IMHO. What is the difference between a swf created in PowerPoint and a swf created in Flash?
Thanks!

thanks octav, but since I need the answer yesterday I kept on
looking, what I need was:
loadMovieNum ("name.swf", *); // at the " * " u put the layer
number.
but thanks.

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- Why is AS3 stripped from the timeline when a Symbol is retrieved using [embed]? Maybe this is the same reason loadBytes() fails, but if I could use [embed] and get a copy of the Symbol, that is what I need. (There are issues with the mx.core.MovieClipLoaderAsset/Asset, but it is better than being blocked by loadBytes())
- What are some apps you guys have written that we can use to compare PC vs iOS? Again, a "tech demo" or sample code of what you as experts in Packager for iOS have done which runs at decent framerate (30+fps) would be of tremendous help. If the Adobe/Flash group hasn't gotten the current Packager for iOS to handle more than 50+ 2D Bitmaps on screen running at 30+fps, that would be good to know. Please let us know what the experts and owners of your software are capable of getting the most throughput using the Packager. I'd hate to sound a bit fed up/angry, but I think you are wasting a lot of people's time and energy with a piece of software that, to me, seems like it was a bit early to release. Flash can do some great things. If it can do it on iOS, even better. But PROVE it to us that it's possible, before having your customers run into barriers imposed on us by trial and error.
Thanks.

I have hardly ever seen a post here from someone at Adobe, so you may need to be patient.
Read this article, and get its associated demo files, to see some good performing tech demos:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/optimize_content_ios.html
Back to your main point, loaders are working, what isn't working for you is accessing of things in the library of a successfully loaded swf, that have been set to Export for ActionScript. That means that the swf you have loaded has an ActionScript Class, to represent the library symbol. iOS Flash apps are native ARM code, and don't include the virtual machines that a browser plugin has, and so it's not able to interpret ActionScript. That may be why it would fail.
Now, I can think of at least a couple of reasons why you might want to have external swfs with elements that you want to reuse in the main swf. One would be if you're intending to make a lot of them, like say if you wanted to have an Asteroids game and the ability to use artwork from a set of different swfs. Another reason might be if you want to skin your interface, by taking specific elements from the loaded swf and using them in the main swf. That way you could have artists preparing those swfs for you, and you just include them in your package, and load the one you want.
There is a way to do either of those things. The second one can be done by having the item as a named symbol on the stage of the loaded swf. With a to-be-loaded swf named "inner.swf", that has a movieclip on its stage named "mc1", this script in the main swf would load that external swf and use its symbol on the main swf's stage, without having to make the inner swf's symbol use ActionScript:
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("inner.swf");
var ldr:Loader = new Loader();
ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,loaded);
ldr.load(req);
function loaded(e:Event) {
var mc:MovieClip = e.target.content as MovieClip;
var innermc:* = mc.mc1;
innermc.x = 50;
innermc.y = 50;
addChild(innermc);
For the other case, you can take the item off the stage of the loaded swf and draw it into a bitmapdata, and then make as many bitmaps from that as you like. Here's the above example, only it adds the original movieclip to the main swf stage, and also creates a bitmap that looks the same:
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("inner.swf");
var ldr:Loader = new Loader();
ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,loaded);
ldr.load(req);
function loaded(e:Event) {
var mc:MovieClip = e.target.content as MovieClip;
var innermc:* = mc.mc1;
innermc.x = 50;
innermc.y = 50;
addChild(innermc);
var bmd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(innermc.width,innermc.height);
bmd.draw(innermc);
var bm:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd);
bm.x = 150;
bm.y = 150;
addChild(bm);
So, the thing to learn is that a native ARM code application does not have an ActionScript interpreter in it, and if you need to do something that normally requires interpreting ActionScript, find another way to do it.

Publishing .index Vs .swf How to make my file look like the .swf Question

Hi, I currenly have a site published where the domain is reading
www.mysite.com/index.html (example)
When I view this site the image is not centered and when I expand it in different browers it does not look good.
When I view the site by looking at it through the exact location of where I have the flash, for example www.mysite.com/index.swf It's exactly how I want it to look.
Is there a code I can put into the html where I can have the same look as the .swf but view it with the .index.html
For example when I am testing the .swf extension and change the size of the browers or expand it, the flash movie is always centered and looks great in every brower.
I was thinking of changing the domains link to the .swf file to solve the issue, but is by having the .html extension provide greater serach information. What is it nessary?

You seem to be confusing the .swf file with the Web page that the .swf file goes on. For Internet delivery you want the index.html web page.
You can "Publish" the page directly from Flash. Under the "File" menu, look for Publish Settings and review ALL the options before "Publishing" the swf.
If you don't understand them, Google for that specific option.
Also review "Flash scaling"
Here are examples of different scaling parameters available in the Publish settings. You can also add these parameters directly in the html (<param name="scale" value="noscale"). All the examples replace the actual Flash dimensions with 100% for both width and height (width="100%" height="100%"). These examples use the old <object> and <embed> to illustrate the different ways to scale Flash. Once you understand how it works I’d recommend that you use swfobject to place the Flash in your final project.
View the source code for each page to see the full code.
http://www.cidigitalmedia.com/tutorials/scale/exact_fit.html
"exactFit" scales the file to fit exactly within the confines of the screen, irregardless if the movie becomes consequently distorted. The original aspect ratio is not maintained. So round things are not round and squares are not square.
http://www.cidigitalmedia.com/tutorials/scale/noScale.html
"noScale" is the default setting, and causes the movie to be displayed at the originally designed dimensions.
http://www.cidigitalmedia.com/tutorials/scale/no_border.html
"noBorder" causes the movie to be scaled to what ever dimensions are needed to have no border surrounding the movie within the player, which consequently could result in some of the movie being cut off from view. In other words, the movie will maintain the original aspect ratio and will fill the screen completely. But if the movie has to be streched wider to fill both sides of the screen, it will also stretch taller, but then some of the top and the bottom of the movie may be cut off from view.
http://www.cidigitalmedia.com/tutorials/scale/show_all.html
"showAll" scales the movie to the size of the screen (which could cause pixelation if the file contains raster information), the difference between showAll and exactFit is that showAll mantains initial movie size proportions. Because it maintains the original aspect ratio, there can be space to the sides or the top and bottom. But everything always shows and they are not distorted. But notice the photo in the center, it becomes pixilated at larger screen resolutions.
The trickiest part of trying to go full screen is that it’s difficult to make the Flash wider without making it taller also, that is, to maintain the correct proportions or aspect ratio of everything on the stage. These methods are just simple scaling accomplished with html. There are also methods to dynamically scale the stage and it’s elements using Actionscript… but that’s a much more complex undertaking.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com
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Playing swf file by onclick in html web page

First time poster so please forgive any protocol lapses. I'm trying to play an AS3 swf embedded in my web page by an onclick javascript function in my page. Have tried many different ways, including the ExternalInterface class but no luck. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I have a feeling that I'm overlooking something very basic.
javascript :
function playCorrectMovie() {
          var getSwfObj = swfobject.getObjectById("FlashID2");
          if(getSwfObj)
                    getSwfObj.play();
<script type="text/javascript">
swfobject.registerObject("FlashID");
swfobject.registerObject("FlashID2");
</script>
html:
<div id="answer1" class="answer_box">
<ul>
    <li><a href="#" id="gifted" onclick="MM_effectShake('answer1'); return false;">gifted musicians who trace their genealogy back to Monteverdi.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" id="wealthy" onclick="MM_effectShake('answer1'); return false;">successful entrepreneurs (the folks who brought us the original Bazooka bubble Gum.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" id="slackers" onclick="playCorrectMovie();" >slackers, swindlers and ne'er do wells.</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
flash:
<div id="popupswf">
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="300" height="200" id="FlashID2" title="Your answer was correct!">
    <param name="movie" value="correct.swf" />
    <param name="quality" value="high" />
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
    <param name="play" value="false" />
    <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
    
    <param name="expressinstall" value="scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
    
    
    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="correct.swf" width="300" height="200">
      
      <param name="quality" value="high" />
      <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
      <param name="play" value="false" />
      <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
      <param name="expressinstall" value="scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
      
      <div>
        <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
        <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
      </div>
      
    </object>
    
</object>
</div>

No need to be sorry... one other thing... the url to the swf uses the "public_html" directory as a lead-in.
<param name="movie" value="public_html/our nations.swf" />
The public_html directory of a web site is typically where a web site's content is placed as the base for a web site on a host server. Unless you have a directory named public_html within what is probably already the public_html folder, then you do not want to specify that. It is more probably supposed to be...
<param name="movie" value="our nations.swf" />
If you look at the various images that are specified in the html code, they do not specify that directory. So if the swf is in the same folder as them, you do not want to be specifying the public_html part of that address.

Opening SWF to its exact size in HTML (ASP page)

Hi,
I have one popup window to open any SWF. User clicks a button
from some other page and the file name is passed to this popup
window through parameter. The popup window itself is sized at 100%
to accomodate with any SWF file.
For the SWF object, if width and height parameters are
missing, the animation has a default size, if width and height are
specified at 100%, the animation is resized much bigger...
Is it possible to find the exact size of the SWF (either by
VBScript or Javascript) and to resize the control to its original
size, either using VB variables when the page is built or with
Javascript once the page is loaded ?
Many thanks for your help
Jean-Pierre

I found the solution.
Many thanks for your help
Jean-Pierre

What is the difference between SWF and F4V in the context of Streaming or progressive Download?

Hello everybody,
I am absolutely a beginner in working with Captivate and furthermore my technological know how is not that good.
So, I have problems to understand if the export formats SWF and F4V are both capable to be published in the Internet as streaming video and as progressive Download? Well so, I do not really understand the difference between streaming and progessive download either?
Furthermore I was asking myself if this issue depends on how I imported flash videos (there are these two options) in my Captivate project during the production phase?
I would be very thankful for some helping information!
Greetings,
Mareike the beginner

Welcome to our community
I'm not certain I fully understand the differences myself, but will toss out what I believe to be true about the formats. Hopefully, if I'm incorrect in my bellief, someone with more definitive knowledge will chime in.
It was explained to me a couple of years back and is my understanding that "streaming" only applies to a video based format such as F4V, FLV and it doesn't apply to SWF. With SWF, you may specify a preload value. So when the SWF transmits from the web server to the PC, a certain percentage has to be received before play begins. But that's not streaming. It's preloading.
For streaming to occur, the web server establishes a communication channel between the server and the destination PC. This channel is monitored to see what speed is in use. Only enough information is then transmitted to be comfortable at that speed. If the speed improves during the connection, the server serves data at a faster rate. If the connection degrades, the information transmitted is also scaled back so as to accommodate the lower speed.
With SWF, after it has all been downloaded, a savvy user is able to poke around in their temporary internet files and save the SWF for play later. With streaming, this isn't possible because as the stream is viewed, it evaporates from memory.
Seriously hoping others will chime in here to confirm or deny this.
Cheers... Rick
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Relative Path for swf skin, is it set by DW or Flash

Hello,
I have a simple video swf file with skin (swf) in my site inside a folder (video folder).
In the video folder there is video.swf, flv file, and skin.swf.
When I test the html file it looks for
siteroot/videofolder/video.swf
siteroot/videofolder/video.flv
But when it looks for skin.swf it looks in the siteroot directory
Does anyone know who sets where the skin.swf path get set?
I publish the files (flash) to right directory.
Thank you in advance
Carlos

Basically not many files, just a temp.html file that calls the
subfolder where the video at.
Here is an example of the temp.html file nothing complicated
inside the videofolder is the swfobject.js & untitled.swf & sking.swf & etc.
var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF("videofolder/untitled.swf", "myAlternativeContent", "800", "600", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
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          </div>
     </body>
</html

IE running under XP can't handle multiple SWF files, Why?

I noticed that IE 8 running under Windows XP cannot handle multiple swf files in one page.
Up to about 10 files is no problem they are loaded and we can play them ( buttons that start a small audio file).
But more of these files in one page will stop IE.
Firefox ( 3.6.28) runs them fine.
And also IE 8 and/or Firefox under Windows 7 handles them perfectly.
Has anyone any idea what can cause this and how to resolve this?
Thanks,
Onno Tomson
The Netherlands

Sorry...I still don't get it. What is it about Windows FUS that keeps iTunes from running running the process twice? It can run many other non-Apple windows apps in multiple user sessions (commercial apps, open source apps, audio/video apps, networked apps). I can even run two different virtual machines at the same time under two different user sessions.
Why can iTunesHelper.exe run twice but iTunes.exe cannot? Why can I run Safari at the same time? Quicktime Player runs fine under multiple user sessions.
Blaming it on Windows and/or FUS sounds like FUD. Can anyone give a valid technical reason? Semaphores? Mutexes? An admission (and explanation) that the Windows version is purposely crippled?

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