FLASH 2004 & FLASH PLAYER 8

Question

Hi,
I am still using Flash 2004, and I just wondered what effect
it would have if I upgraded to the new Flash Player 8? Would it
cause any problems in running my .swf movies, or would it improve
the playback quality?
Thx.

Answer 1

SLMHILL,
> I am still using Flash 2004, and I just wondered what
effect
> it would have if I upgraded to the new Flash Player 8?
Shouldn't be a problem. I always have the latest Flash
Player
installed. I had 9 installed while using Flash 8.
> Would it cause any problems in running my .swf movies,
or
> would it improve the playback quality?
It depends on how those SWFs were made. Flash Player 8
dropped support
for the "add" string concatenator, so if you have SWFs that
make use of that
very, very old ActionScript feature, those won't work. I
believe everything
else is supported (the "add" operator was deprecated as of
Flash 5 in favor
of the "+" operator). Flash Player 7 brought case sensitivity
to the
table -- i.e., the variable myVar is different from myvar --
so if your SWFs
were already written with that in mind, you should be fine.
SWFs made
without ActionScript shouldn't have any problems at all, and
may in fact run
more smoothly.
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design."