Flex to AS3 swf

I want to get swf files I have produced in Flash Builder 4.5 into Prezi.
They require what they are calling an "AS3 SWF" file for loading.
My SWF from FB is not making the trip.
Any ideas as to how I can get my FB swf to be/look like an AS3 swf?
Thanks.

Flex has several dependencies on the framework itself. If you want to bring it into Prezi, I'd create it in Flash and keep it pure actionscript.

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Problems with a AS3 SWF

Hello,
I am having issues with a SWF file posting properly in a Catalyst project. I have already put a post in the Catalyst section but I wanted to bounce the idea off this room that the issue is more SWF and less Catalyst because everything else in Catalyst is working just fine, including other AS3 SWF files that I have linked throught the site. The files are here:
www.electronic-lifestyle.com
If you enter the Home Theater section you will see a SWF load in the film frame after it downloads (maybe 3 seconds). This SWF with alter the screen on the image and give you controls on the bottom right corner to shift the aspect ratio of the content on the projection screen. This is a AS3 SWF that works just fine, but if you click on Electronics the page shifts to another film frame that is blank. It is a scroll panel in Catalyst that is refusing to load the content which is a SWF with several links set up as buttons in AS3.
I cannot figure out why one SWF will work and the others will not. Is it possible that I am publishing the files incorrectly somehow? I checked the publish settings for the files that work and the files that don't and they are exactly the same. I have tried to rebuild the pages with both the good SWFs and the bad SWFs and I get the same results.
Even more puzzling is that the entire project works when I check the Local files. The issue only rears it's ugle head when I put it on the server and try it live.
If anyone has insight into the connectiuon between Flash AS3 SWFs and the way FXP files imports them that could come close to explaining this please let me know. The only difference between the two are the buttons, I am going to try to remove the buttons and see if the SWF works.
Thanks in advance,
Brett

Hey,
Yes I have figured out the issue and I simply can't believe the solution. I have been discussing it on the Flash Catalyst Forum. Here is a recent post, please feel free to take a look at the page I have set up to demonstrate the issue in case you ever come across it. It is a real kick in the head.
Brett
Chris,
Thanks for the tip but I just figured out the problem and you are not going believe this. I removed the buttons from two of the scroll panes and replaced them with buttons made in Catalyst and the problem magically went away. Take a look at this page:
www.electronic-lifestyle.com/SpeakSEL-OLD/Main.html
The first three pages work just fine but the Third and Fourth pages (Outdoor & Subwoofer) will not load the SWF. The ONLY difference between these two pages are the buttons in Flash. It would seem that buttons will create a destructive error that prevents the SWF from loading.
If this pans out then the developers for Adobe really missed a big one with this. I have over 47 pages that now need to be rebuilt because I assumed that a button built in AS3 would not interfere with the SWF load.
Now this isn't something that happens all the time, I have several SWFs in this site that use buttons and work just fine but they are nested in Movie Clips and they all have to do with timeline controls rather than opening another URL. Maybe the "_blank" tag is the issue but I am required to get the user to a different page by the client's request. I can't very well go back to the client and tell him that Catalyst has an issue with that very normal request.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, I am spending the rest of my day republishing my SWFs without buttons just to remake them in FC. BTW, the real kick in the head is that the SWFs with the buttons work on the local files, its when you upload to a server that everyting seems to fall apart.
Brett

Imported AS3 swf animation not looping

I have tried all of the settings in Captivate 5.5 but can't keep my animation looping and not sure why.
I've imported an AS3 swf animation (just a simple movieclip animation of a blinking line) into Captivate 5.5. I placed the animation at the end of the timeline on the slide, and want the blinking line to stay there and continue to blink (i.e., animate) even after the slide has come to the end of the timeline.
I've tried everything I can think of. I assumed that checking the "Loop" setting in Captivate for the animation would do it, but it seems to have no effect.
I am pretty sure what is happening is that the click box on the Cp slide is forcing the animation to pause. In other words, the imported animation's timeline is being forced to pause too. Is there a way to stop this?
Any ideas?

Hi there
Try inserting a Click Box that pauses the slide about half a second before the end of the animation on the Timeline.
Cheers... Rick
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Communication between AS2 Template and AS3 Swf

I created a template in AS2 which loads as2 swf's. i want to load as3 swf. then how can load as3 swf.within as2 template.
please help me to find out this...

hI,
Look at package SDYNAMICDOCUMENTS, or look for DD_* ( This is Dynamic Documents Tamplates ) in SE38.
Regards,
Marcelo Ramos.

Load AS2 swf into AS3 swf problem

I have a flash with AS3 and inside this swf i load in a AS2 swf.
to load swf works just fine, but the problem is when i load this i want to go to
a specific part of it, for example i want to go to frame 3 in the loaded swf.
i must control this from the AS3 swf, does someone know if this is possible?
thanks in advance

so can i do like this then to go to frame 3 in my loaded swf?
MovieClip(ldr.content).gotoAndStop(3); ?
sorry for being such an airhead
thanks for helping me out =)
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:25:09 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: load AS2 swf into AS3 swf problem
no.
if, in your loaded swf, you have a function f1() on the loaded swf's main timeline and you load that swf using a loader (say ldr), use:
MovieClip(ldr.content).f1(); // to call f1() in the loaded swf
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Convert AS2 swf to AS3 swf

I have a swf (written in AS3) that loads other swfs into it.
There are no issues when loading other AS3 swfs but there is a
problem loading AS2 swfs. I get the following error:
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert
flash.display::AVM1Movie@35d3a51 to flash.display.MovieClip.
Is there any way to convert the AS2 swf into a AS3 swf so it
will be compatible with my loader? I cannot go back and change the
AS2 swfs because I do not have the fla files. Or is there any way
to incorporate AS3 code that will load AS2 swfs properly? It seems
hard to believe that Adobe would neglect this backwards
compatibility issue. Thanks

Hello Andrei1,
Thanks for looking at my simple AS3 code. The AS2 swfs that
I've been working (and having difficulties) with are components
that I've purchased from places like www.flashden.com. Some are
image transitions (such as "Dynamic Image Draw found at
http://www.flashden.net/item/dynamic-image-draw/7532)
while another is used to create a looped banner rotator animation
(IMG_loop, a free d/l from www.afcomponents.net). I have another
that uses an .xml file to configure a slideshow animation.
You mention "needing to do more" if AS2 scripts inside its
swf are to be run by the parent AS3 fla; what would these lines of
code be?
In researching my problem further I've since realized that
most of these issues deal both with the version of AS used, as well
as the version of the Flash player the fla is set up to animate
for. In particular, the "Dynamic Image Draw" component requires
that Flash Player 8 or 9 be used with AS2.
Given that many of my purchased components are like this,
I've since changed my main fla movie from AS3 back to AS2 and have
learned that the scripting needed to call individual multiple swfs
into it at various points in the timeline is MUCH simpler!!!!! One
single, easily interpreted, line of code vs. 5 lines using
variables and much more arcane (to me) function calls.
I started my file with AS3 figuring that I'd be better off
learning the new version of the language; much stress and
forehead-rubbing later, I've seen just how much easier and
understandable AS2 is to learn.
I recognize that there are likely very strong arguments for
the more structured coding approach used by AS3, but for someone
like me who wants to generate customized Flash presentations with
little fuss, I'm not qualified to make them.
Perhaps this is a no brainer for those many flash gurus out
there, but for me this tiny bit of wisdom has been hard fought for!
That being said, is there an easy way to convert a swf file
created using AS2 to something that AS3 can work/interact with?
I've come across a free d/l product called actionscript bridge, but
haven't been able to understand how to get it to work.

Load AS2 SWF in AS3 SWF with FlashVars

I am able to load SWF which is created using AS2 in to AS3
SWF but I am not able to pass Flashvars to it..
Does any one has any idea, how can I do that??
Thanks

You can talk to loaded AVM1 (AS1/2) SWF using LocalConnection. I used Grant Skinner's SWFBridge class in the past and worked very well:
http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2007/07/swfbridge_easie.html
Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

AS2 SWF loaded inside a AS3 SWF

Hi,
In a recent project I had to load a FlashPaper2 document
inside a SWF implemented in AS3. I read a couple of articles about
Darron
Shcall's article and
FlashInterface
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I needed to load a FlashPaper SWF inside a AS3 and couldn't
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To be more clear, I was using the Loader class via a Sprite to load
the FlashPaper SWF.
Anyways, I created FlashPaperLoader.SWF implemented in AS2
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What I don't understand is how come the FlashPaperLoader the
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function calls when they are loaded inside a AS3 SWF, I thought
that due to VM differences, no communication is possible!
I hope I was clear, if I was, any guru insight is really
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Cheers.

Thanks kglad,
But you still haven't answered my question. I am not looking
for solutions, my own solution works. I wanted to understand more
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AS3
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URLRequest("./FlashPaperLoader.swf");
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loader.load(request);
AS2
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the FlashPaper SWF.
Now, the first part (AS3), all that code is interpreted by
VM2. Once an AS2 SWF is loaded a
AVM1Movie
is created and no direct communication between AS3 and AS2 is
possible. I am curious to know how come the two AS2 SWFs can
communicate with each other while inside the VM2 space.

AS3 SWF inside Director 11.5.9 quirk

I've previously used AS2 SWFs inside Director 11.5.9, and the SWFs work fine, actionscript works as it should.
I'm working on a project where I need to use some AS3 SWFs inside Director, and I've come across a limit on the pixel width and height of the SWF. It seems that if either the pixel width or height of the published SWF are greater than 1638, then any actionscript inside the SWF is ignored when the SWF is loaded into director. The SWF still works ok outside of Director.
For example, any actionscript stop(); commands are ignored and the playback continuously loops through the swf timeline.
Has anyone come across this before?
I am almost 100% certain this issue is related to the pixel width / height, as I've made a simple button navigation swf, and published it with different stage sizes. 1638 or less work inside Director, 1639 or more don't work inside Director!

Made me laugh until I cried...
Or did I just cry? :(
Cruel but funny!
Richard

AS3 swf tiny question

I have a feeling that I know the answer to this. I am not
terribly savvy on Actionscript (basic sklls, not expert)..and not
in 3.0 at all!!!!!!!! I have a website that is done nearly all in
Flash with AS2.0. I recently added a video player from a video
aggregator, but their player is AS3.0.
All I could do was to build an html page and embed the AS 3
player into that. I prefer the seamlessness that Flash provides. Is
there ANY possible way to embed an AS3 swf file into an AS2
website.
I just cannot completely rebuild the entire website right now
in 3.0!!!!
Is there ANY simple solution? I cannot believe that I am the
only person who is having issues like this...Ugh!!!!
thanks for any help you can offer.

you can't use an as2 file to load an as3 file and have the
as3 file work.
you can use getURL() to load your as3's embedding html file.
if you want it to look seemless, you can load into the same window
so the user will see your as2 content replaced by the as3 swf.
in the as3 swf you can put code to load your as2's embedding
html file (using navigateToURL()). so, you can go back and forth
between your as2 and as3 swfs.

AS2 .swf to AS3.swf

This may have been posted somewhere else however I have created a series of AS2 .swfs and now that I am using captivate 5 i need to convert them to as3.swf
Can anyone help

That's going to depend on whether or not there's any AS2 code in your SWFs and how complex that code is.
Did you create these SWFs in Flash? If so, what version? If it's Flash CS3 or above you should be able to open the original FLA files and change your publish settings to output as AS3.
If you've programmed a lot of interactivity into these SWFs as AS2 and you don't know AS3, you'll need to either learn it yourself or pay someone that does.

Embed AS3 swf into a AS2 FLA?

HI, I have a flash site designed in AS2 and want to embed a
AS3 video player in it. If I republish the AS2 site to AS3 the
website doesnt function, and if I load the AS3 swf into the
website, the Player doesnt function.
I need the AS2 functionality on the website and I need the
advanced AS3 functionality on the video Player.
Is there any way to get these two guys to talk to each
other?

Creating a 3rd fla, to load the AS2 Fla and the AS3 FLA just
aint gonna fly. This website is updated daily and its just too much
of a maintenance nightmare.
However, I do want to use Wabbits suggestion but I dont know
how to create a web object.
The GetURL function opens the swf on its own, which I dont
want to do. I want it to open the AS3 SWF in a small window within
the page.
Can someone help please? Thanks in advance,

When can support the AS3 swf files in the Director?

AS3 has existed for a very long time, but Director 11 con't
support it.
So, I want know that when can support the AS3 swf files in
the Director?
Thanks.

Director 11 supports AS3, but to my knowledge you cannot use
components in your flash file.
Z.

Embedded AS3 SWF access in Flex 2

I have an SWF (Action Script 3) created in Flash 9 Alpha
Public.
I can access all its methods and variables when using
SWFloader, but fail to do so when embedding it by using [Embed]
tag.
I need to do it to use it as a custom cursor (CursorManager
accepts objects of Class type as cursors). Before I was using SWF 8
(AS2) with LocalConnection, but since the new SWF 9 is in Action
Script 3, I want to use it directly.
The code looks like this:
[Embed(source = "cursor_9.swf")]
private var newCursorSymbol:Class;
private function changeCursor(event:MouseEvent):void
CursorManager.setCursor(newCursorSymbol);
The question is. Can I, and if I can, then, how, access this
swf methods from within a Flex 2 application?
or else, can the CursorManager somehow accept the content of
SWFloader, which is a MovieClip object?
Thank you

This is tough. The DisplayObject that represents the customer
cursor is instantiated internally by the CursorManager and is
stored in a private variable, so there's no way to get at it. I
believe there is a hack you can do if you ever only have one
instance of that cursor. The Class you pass to the CursorManager
can be any DisplayObject, so you can cook one up to wrap your SWF.
For example, call it MyCursor.mxml:
<mx:Canvas xmlns:mx="...">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
public static var sCursorLoader: SWFLoader;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:SWFLoader id="loader" source="cursor_9.swf"
creationComplete="sCursorLoader = loader"/>
</mx:Canvas>
And then use the CursorManager:
CursorManager.setCursor(MyCursor);
The idea is that once the CursorManager instantiates the
MyCursor class, the static variable will point to the SWFLoader, so
you can access it in a global way:
MyCursor.sCursorLoader
Of course, you'll have to put in some kind of delay to make
sure the SWF is completely loaded, etc. This is just something I
thought of off the top of my head, so take it with a grain of salt.
:-)

Nest AS3 swf into AS2 swf

I purchased a flash template written in AS2, i have all files needed to customize this site, .fla, psd's you name it. I also purchased a photo gallery that is written in AS3 (did not know it was AS3 when purchased) . My question: is there any way to embed/nest the AS3 photo gallery, which i the swf file for, into my AS2 website?

Per AS3 documentation:
A single SWF file cannot combine ActionScript 1.0 or 2.0 code with ActionScript 3.0 code.
SWF files written in ActionScript 1.0 or 2.0 cannot load SWF files written in ActionScript 3.0. This means that SWF files authored in Flash 8 or Flex Builder 1.5 or earlier versions cannot load ActionScript 3.0 SWF files.
The only exception to this rule is that an ActionScript 2.0 SWF file can replace itself with an ActionScript 3.0 SWF file, as long as the ActionScript 2.0 SWF file hasn't previously loaded anything into any of its levels.

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