Loaded external SWF gets blurry fonts/bitmaps

Hi all
When i load an external swf file it looses quality and
renders blurry. But the swf itself (the external one) looks
perfectly fine standalone. Now i ask myself, is this really a
flashbug or what the heck is it?
Because i wrote an elearning player wich references hundreds
of this files, its not very funny to see the quality dropping. To
get some meat for you, i created a small site, wich should make the
problem much clearer:
Click here and
explore the strange bug
If anybody has some useful information about it, i am more
than glad to hear it!
tks for all the fish and goodbye
roger

How was the swf generated? If you were using Camtasia Studio,
there are
issues with using Flash 8 player.
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
Flash, Actionscript and Flash Media Server examples:
http://flashexamples.hosfordusa.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
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Hi all
When i load an external swf file it looses quality and
renders blurry. But
the
swf itself (the external one) looks perfectly fine
standalone. Now i ask
myself, is this really a flashbug or what the heck is it?
Because i wrote an elearning player wich refences hundert of
this files,
its
not very funny to see the quality dropping. To get some meat
for you, i
created a small site, wich should make the problem much
clearer:
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="
http://lux.to/tests/ppt2swf/index.html">Click
here and explore the
strange bug</a>
If anybody has some useful information about it, i am more
than glad to
hear
it!
tks for all the fish and goodbye
roger

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The main file Training01.fla has been set up with links to download several swf's. The links that do not work properly are those labelled : Module6 and Module 8. The first Module 6 connects to a function that is a variation of how I was trying to load external swfs using Application Domain, while Module 8 is a link to a swf that uses and external class. Module 8 is supposed to load with rotating stars, while Module 6 loads the same file as the link called Module 1. As soon as I use the two links Module 6 or Module 8 the whole lot ceases to work properly. I did also follow through the examples on the Adobe site. The examples for Module 6 and Module 8 are tutorials I have used from the Internet as part of my training from the site FlashMyMind.com but they replicate the type of work we have been doing with respect to using ActionScript3.
Re my background, at this stage I am self-taught using tutorials on the web and whatever books I can lay my hands on here. There is no structured training available where I live as there is insufficient demand and no books available on Flash or ActionScript at the local book stores or libraries so the books are ones I have ordered via the Internet. The one I am currently using apart from Adobe Classroom in a Book Flash CS4 is O'Reilly's Learning ActionScript 3.0 a Beginners Guide.
The other problem I have been trying to solve and still researching is why one loses sound in the flash player when playing flv files, if the user has selected or restarted a video (or videos) many times eg 25 to 30 times as we create video training files and serve them to the user within the flash environment using Flash Player 9 and IE6.
Regards
Norman

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Hi, I'm trying to load external swf (with more than one frame and actionscript 3 on every frame - I used there "timeline" coding) from my main swf.
code for loading external swf into main swf:
var loader01:Loader;
function openGame1(evt:Event):void
loader01 = new Loader();
var requestSWF01:URLRequest = new URLRequest("game01.swf");
loader01.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, processHandler);
loader01.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, initHandler);
loader01.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errorHandler);
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function processHandler(evt:ProgressEvent):void
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function initHandler(evt:Event):void{
loaded_txt.text="";
function errorHandler(evt:IOErrorEvent):void
trace ("Error: " + evt.text);
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You can see this here http://bvyborcik.xf.cz/ If you click on the blue building on the left with blinking text "Start hry" you will see what happens - preloading is not completed and after clicking on first floor btn, the swf crashes...
Please is there a solution for this kind of problem? Any help or pointing is welcome.
regards Boris

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Here's basically what my code looks like (note: I cut some stuff out that wasn't relevant for the sake of clarity).
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