Hijack a SWF File

Using MovieClipLoader I am loading a powerpoint presentation
that was turned into a swf via OpenOffice into my flash file. The
generated swf file goes to the next frame when the user clicks and
I want to disable that and control it with actionscript.
Any help is appreciated.

A Flex app is a SWF and is not translated to Javascript. Many Flex apps do
use Javascript to handle history management and startup focus.

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HI
You can use FlashJester Jugglor to create one EXE file by
adding the FLV in
the Additional Files section.
Try it
http://www.jugglor.com
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You wrote -
I made the swf file from an mp4 in flash so ive never had the original
.fla file. I have tried using a swf decompiler to get the fla file but
it doesnt seem to have worked but this is a side issue...
First welcome to the forum.
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http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=140886

Mark,
> I have set my publish settings to Flash Player 9.0 and
Actionscript
> 3.0, but keep getting an error as follows:
>
> "WARNING: The component 'FLVPlayback' requires
ActionScript 2.0."
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