Control Flash8 swf movie in Flex 2

I have a swf (output from OpenOffice, created from a
PowerPoint presentation) and i want to control it from Flex 2 (i
don't have the .fla file of the swf).
Is this possible at all? I can load the swf and display it,
but no way of accessing it as a MovieClip to use gotoFrame and so
on. Anyone?

Hi - I have a swf8 file that loads external swf- files - all
in FL8 - and my main interface is in flex -
In my fl8 swf i would hav a variable: var global_mc:MovieClip
- my swf file will se them as being in the _root or level0 when the
file first loads - but then they start to get messed up with flex -
i.e. - the file loaded will show up as
fl8: 5. created _root.testMC10
on a test - but when I call the global_mc variable again
later it gives me:
_level0.Presentations0.mainPanel.contentPane.HDividedBox6.VBox41.mainTabCanvas.contentPan e.mainTab.contentPane.VBox47.swfLoaderMain.FlexLoader171.instance186.testMC10
as its name - the problem is that I can still access
properties like _x and _width, _name - but i cannot run functions
on the MovieClip from within swf - i.e. global_mc.stop() and so
on... Any solution????
thx

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Hi - I have a swf8 file that loads external swf- files - all
in FL8 - and my main interface is in flex -
In my fl8 swf i would hav a variable: var global_mc:MovieClip
- my swf file will se them as being in the _root or level0 when the
file first loads - but then they start to get messed up with flex -
i.e. - the file loaded will show up as
fl8: 5. created _root.testMC10
on a test - but when I call the global_mc variable again
later it gives me:
_level0.Presentations0.mainPanel.contentPane.HDividedBox6.VBox41.mainTabCanvas.contentPan e.mainTab.contentPane.VBox47.swfLoaderMain.FlexLoader171.instance186.testMC10
as its name - the problem is that I can still access
properties like _x and _width, _name - but i cannot run functions
on the MovieClip from within swf - i.e. global_mc.stop() and so
on... Any solution????
thx

SWFloader loads SWF movie within Flex but not when compiled

When I run my app in Flex, SWFLoader loads the SWF okay as a movie clip but as soon as I Export/Release Build, the new app SWF that is generated won't show the movie clip anymore. If I take another SWF that is an app (not a movie clip) and give it the movie swf name, my compiled app will show the sub app in a frame. Why would running something within Flex be any different than running a compiled version?
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The code below loads an AS2 swf into my Flex mobile for IOS app and it works. If that AS2 swf has like a circle in it that runs across the stage, it loads and displays properly when run in FlashBuilder.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
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                                 xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
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[SWF] SwfMobile.swf - 2,639,761 bytes after decompression
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Ah, yes. Using an AVM1 SWF could prove difficult...
I'm going on about 3 hours of sleep at the moment, but let me toss out a few thoughts I have and hopefully something will stick...
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Hi, thanks for reading!
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department that it can not be modified in any way, I also can't
have the source file yada yada. I pulled the .swfs from their
website and I decompiled them to see what I was up against.
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message news:e3l5nr$bdo$[email protected]..
> But surely if the way i'm currently playing audio is
from being attached into
> the frames in the timeline (at the moment if i press a
button to switch the
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http://members.cox.net/4my2dogs/flash/
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