Director MX 2004 and Flash CS3

Hi there:
New to Director, so I apologize if this question's a wierd
one, but I'm wondering -- is it possible to host a Flash 9 SWF
(authored, say, in Flex and written in AS3) in a Director MX 2004
project? I'd like to add some of the features of Director to my
SWF, and am hoping I can drop in my SWF and write some code that'll
bridge the two environments.
Thanks,
Chris

> is it possible to host a Flash 9 SWF (authored, say, in
Flex and
> written in AS3) in a Director MX 2004 project?
No, the last publically released version of the Flash Asset
xtra will
play version 8/AS2 files only. The next version of Director
(due before
the end of the year) is expected to include an updated asset
xtra

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Can anyone show me how to program director MX 2004 to run a
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Thanks for your replay. Here is what I want to do:
I have a Flash animation all done in Actionscript to playback
a few slides with title and description. The pictures are loaded in
the .swf runtime and the location of the pictures, duration,
transition, and text attributes are controlled by external XML.
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really an indication of real time (like in frame-by-frame
animation). How can I program Director to play the whole Flash
animation and stop when done?
How can I upload a test file to you to illustrate what I'm
talking about?

Director 11 and flash cs3 editing

Hi,
Since the last version of director, i worked fine with it and
the feature of flash editing from director (you know, double click
in flash member and the flash movie opens from director. Then you
can update from flash in one only click).
Well, now i've installed dir11 and flash cs3 (without
uninstall dir10 and flash8, because i know that flash 8 doesn't
work with dir11, so I'm looked for profiting this feature with the
old dir10 and flash8 and dir11 and flashCS3). Ok, this feature
doesn't work anymore. When i try to edit from dir11, flash CS3
opens the SWF file!!!!. The same occurs with dir10 and flash8!!
After this, i've tried all possibles combinations,
uninstalling flash8 and reinstalling flashCS3, and the same with
directors. Finally, i found that the versions of macromedia
products doesn't uninstall completely, (even after removing
manually all the registry references of both products). When i
uninstall dir10 and then i install dir11, the .dir files is not
associated with director anymore(even with the rebootings), the
system ask to me the proper application. The .dir icons are white.
To solve this, i need reinstall dir10 and the icons back. Then, i
reinstall dir11 and the icons change properly.
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with Flash 8 and CS3, with one big difference. Now i'm unable to
install CS3 properly to edit from dir11. All that i get is the SWF
editing but not the fla, and the .fla icons disappears. Not
associated anymore.
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I little help is needed, please...
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quote:
Originally posted by:
wherold
Flash is NOT automatically added in the Editor list
two things.
1. you must setup external editor for flash in D11
Edit -> Preferences -> Editors..
2. you'll have to add the source fla for every swf in the
proprty inspector by hand.
you can find this handling also in the D11 live docs at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Director/11.0/help.html?content=10_Using_Flash_Interactive_005 .html#70861
Wolfgang
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Captivate 2 and Flash CS3

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I'm still using Captivate 2, but I have Flash CS3 installed.
Can I export my .cp files to .fla? On the captivate export menu,
there are options for Flash 8 and MX 2004 that are greyed out, and
I don't get a CS3 option at all. I've already uninstalled Flash 8,
and I had some quirky problems with Dreamweaver and file
association for Fireworks during the upgrade. Could this be
related, or is it just not possible?
Thanks!

Hi loudena and welcome to our community
Flash CS3 arrived after Captivate 2 did, so it comes as no
surprise that Captivate 2 is oblivious to Flash CS3.
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the Captivate 2 .CP file. Not sure if that will work, but just
thinking out loud.
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Beware of Zoomify and Flash CS3!

Does anyone else have problems getting
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Everytime I launch the Component Inspector in the Zoomify Viewer
Component I get an alert saying: "Reference Error ZoomifyFileAPI is
not defined". This is one of several JavaScript errors and alerts
that frequently launch. I emailed [email protected] but so far no
reply.
Am really annoyed for three reasons:
1. Paid 129 USD for it
2. It is for client work!
3. Zoomify have as yet to respond

I have the same problem. (on Flash CS3 OS X) Bought it
yesterday for a project. Expected to get documentation with the
download. No response from support. I installed the component in
Flash MX2004 and get this error : ZoomifyFileAPI.fileExists is not
a function when opening the component inspector... At least I was
able to enter paths and get a first etst going.
Overall it looks buggy... and abandoned. Too bad. I like the
samples I've seen and I think there is a lot of potential for
development.

Windows 7 and Flash CS3 / CS4

I run Windows 7, clean install with Flash Professional CS4 (also CS3). But both are working so extremely slow it's just not usable. So I tried both running from within the Virtual PC XP Mode and both are as fast as they were in XP.
I tried to run both in compatibility mode but it doesn't help. Only way seems to run it in a Virtual PC/XP Mode. If I do run it in Windows 7 it's simply so unresponsive.. if you click it takes 20 seconds to wake up the program and react to what you clicked at. I know many more have the same problems but I didn't see any solution. Can't imagine Adobe ain't aware of this huge problem.
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Is Vista and Flash CS3 performance issue solved?

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scroll up-down/left-right I got slideshow. When move the
framecursor to view the frames I also get slideshow. Searched
google, do the compatibility settings and the only batter thing I
get is smoother scrolling of the code. Nothing more. Is this
solved?
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Should I go back to Flash 8?

I have an old AlBook G4 1.67 2GB and I actually think CS3
works great. There is a huge thread about this very issue going on
at the moment so you might want to take a look there. I never had
Flash 8, but MX04 also ran just fine on my laptop.
As far as player performance, it has sped up a lot with AS3
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know if there is true parity between the systems, but it is
certainly faster.
I've always thought it a good idea to develop on a Mac. If
you can make your animations look smooth and good playing back in
the Mac version of the player then you know they will look good
across the board. I can't tell you how many sites (thankfully fewer
these days) where I go and everything just crawls and chugs along.
It is usually due to over high frame rates and excess transparency
or animated raster images. (And I'm talking about the kind that
even if it did move smoothly it wouldn't be worth it!)

Captivate 3 and Flash CS3 under Vista 64

Hello,
I'm having a problem with using Adobe Captivate 3 and Adobe Flash CS3 in tandem to get my Captivate project in a file format accepted by online video sharing sites such as YouTube. Since Captivate 3 does not have an option to export to .avi or any other accepted movie file format, I thought that I would export the Captivate project to Flash, and then export it to the avi file format through Flash. However, whenever I select "File>Export>Project To>Flash CS3," I get the following error in Flash:
quote:
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You said...
quote:
The much bigger obstacle is that when I export a Captivate
project that incorporates full-motion recordings with static slides
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audio is gone too. I don't know what is causing this, but I would
really appreciate any help you could lend me concerning this.
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maybe someone else here does - but would offer an
observation ...
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projects in Flash because of the various inconsistencie, some of
which you have seen ... I am hopeful that the Captivate team does
something to address the handling of full-motion slides. We all
know that they are created as AVI clips which are then converted to
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be a way to offer the source, that is, the AVI or a FLA either of
which would then be handled separately inside Flash (for those who
like to do their tinkering in that environment).
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the import doesn't end up as a blank. Just thinking out loud in
trouble-shooting mode... come to think of it, when the project is
published to SWF/HTM, each full-motion slide is published as a
separate SWF file. Would it be possible to publish the project,
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It's late here and I'm getting into fuzzy-thinking time, so if that
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Keynote and Flash CS3

I have read the threads on lack of support for transparency in animated GIFs and QT Flash tracks. I just installed Adobe CS3 and iWork '08, and Keynote '08 seems willing to import Flash 9 files (although I have yet to try features not in Flash 5). There seems no way to specify transparency for the background in SWF, it is an option on export. Assuming the lack of support for transparency is fixed, is there hope for being able to import SWF 9 files to Keynote '08 and have them be transparent?

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I don't think so. Since the Flash would be playing within QuickTime, and the problem is somewhere between Keynote's and QuickTime's interactions, that core problem would have to be resolved before transparencies would work in Keynote.
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Director MX 2004 and MacOS X 10.5

Hi
I'm new to macOS but have to port in nearest future some
projects ,
developed for Windows on Mac
And therefore the question from newbie.
Is there any possibility to develope in Director under Mac OS
X 10.5?
Can Director 11 be started under Rosetta or does Version 10.5
have no
Rosetta in it?
Can older versions of Director (for example MX 2004) be
started under
Rosetta on Mac OS X 10.5?
Any help will be appreciated
Orest

Dear Dean,
First of all, thanks for your answer. Here some screenshot to explain the issue :
I launch the program on clicking the Play button. Then here is the first screen.
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I continu to navigate to further sequences.
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Clicking on next arrow change the number, and the page.
There is a link to a menu. When you click on it, it display list of thematic and you can see that a field appears with mouse over the icone (red circled one).
Everything works fine with the program using Director Windows Version.
But When i use the same program with Director MacOs Version, these issues occured :
First, when mouse over the next arrow, no text is displayed (cf. first picture)
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To finnish, nothing appears in the last screen :
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the 'C' field (wich appears on mouse over) is empty too, but when clicking it, this page is loaded.
To Resum the situation : i took the program made on MX2004 Macintosh. I put it on a PC system.
I use th extra/update animation option to convert the program into director 11.
I open the converted files with director 11 on Windows and it works fine.
I open the converted files with director 11 on MacOS X and i expect these issues.
I hope these explanation should help you to understand my problems, and i hope you should help me to find what's going on.
Thanks.
Eric

Lcds and flash cs3

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Director mx 2004 won't display Flash 8 swf files & other Flash media

I have created a Flash 8 Project which has audio, video (which are converted to swf files fom flvs), flashpaper. This application is driven by XML.
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Flash CS3 Pro and Windows 7

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Flash CS3 ActionScript and "Test Movie" on Mac

I recently switched over to a PowerMac and Flash CS3 from
Flash 8 on a PC.
I've been on a PC forever but wanted to migrate over to the
Mac as XP and Vista and the headaches we all know about.
So, within Flash you can "Test Movie" and a little test
window pops up displaying your swf.
It has always been the case on the PC, and my friends with
Flash 8 on the Mac tell me it's the same for them, that you can be
writing in the Actions panel and then hit "Control/Apple - Enter"
and the ActionScript actions you just typed will be reflected in
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acts as a constantly updated reflection of the latest edit to your
Flash piece, regardless of whether you've "Saved" the .fla document
itself.
This is part of the normal work flow to me. Write some
actions, edit them, when they are right, I save. But in the
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never updates to the latest edit. Whether with hot-keys or with the
cursor/menu selection, the window will not reflect the latest edit,
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the pop up "Test Movie" window prior to is the only way to ensure
getting the current edit/actions to preview.
If you write a lot of actions script, then I'm sure you can
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is really really a headache. And, if I can't find a way around
that, sadly, I'll have to migrate back to the PC, ugh, and Flash
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test) and CS3, they made it so that just clicking in the AS editor
window doesn't return the focus to the application. In that case
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actionscript window, it will recompile the swf. However I
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Problem openning + setting up Flash cs3 trial

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this is the picture:
My
Error i get when i open the Flash cs3 setup, please click image to
get a better view.
And please zoom in to the picture to see the error ( just
click the image)
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