Make a flash swf backwards compatible?

Do I have to publish it in Actionscript 2 and select Flash Player 6 under publish settings, if so would I have to rewrite any actionscript (simply a URL link). If so, how do you make a hyperlink in AS2? Can this still work with Flash Player 9 (or the most recent version). Or is none of this correct? I really don't know

Tell us more about what your objetive is - what are you tryring to do, what situation are you trying to account for?
For a Flash project online, being viewed by the public, Flash Player 9 with AS3, will stand up well for versions of the player that go back a more than a few years (I think FP9 was released in mid 2006). And unless you are specifically programming something that requires Flash Player 10.0, 10.1 or 10.2, you will be fine with FP9.
There is no "switch" to change anything done in AS3 to convert it to AS2. And I don't think you'd want to, anyways...unless you had some oddball reason to support Flash Player 8 (and now we're going back to 2005).
So (this is just my opinion, FWIW), the lowest common denominator: Unless you need "the latest" FP apabilities, I think it's really safe to go with AS3, publish ed to FP9.
Here is one (of probably many searchable) links to FP history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player#Release_history

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Flash cs5 backward compatibile with flash cs4

Hello there
Can anyone tell if cs5 flash is backward compatible?
Thanks

The correct word from Ned Murphy answer is 'in theory'. As actually there are lots of bugs when working with cs4 files in cs5:
a. compiler works incorrectly and sometimes throws compile errors where cs4 compiles the same file correctly with no errors; and these issues concern not some 'reserved words' or classes that are omited in cs4, but rather as simple and unexpected elements as movie clips names, etc.
b. when saving FLA file with embedded fonts in cs4 format fonts may include all outlines even though you may select just a few sets; so it may result in compiled SWF with quite huge size (imagine embedding all unicode Arial and Times fonts - that would take about 500 kb on fonts only).
c. one time I had a bug with one graphic asset being replaced with another after compilation; that was I spent about two crazy hours finding out what causes this strange bug and couldn't - after restarting Flash the bug was eliminated in the same strange way.
And that may be not the full list as Flash CS5 has some serious problems with Library - it causes lots of crashes.

Flash SWF (with as3 code) integrate in Flex probelm

Hello everyone,
I'm having a problem to make my Flash SWF working in Flex. I
created an animation movieclip, made a button and wrote a script to
play this movieclip in Flash. Everything works fine but when I use
SWFLoader in Flex to integrate this SWF in my application. This
"play" button is working anymore in Flex.
Should I remove the button and script in Flash and put them
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm having a problem to make my Flash SWF working in
Flex. I created an
> animation movieclip, made a button and wrote a script to
play this
> movieclip in
> Flash. Everything works fine but when I use SWFLoader in
Flex to integrate
> this
> SWF in my application. This "play" button is working
anymore in Flex.
>
> Should I remove the button and script in Flash and put
them in Flex? How
> could
> I write the script in Flex to call a function to play
this SWF?
> Is there any other way to solve this problem?
I have an example on my blog that demonstrates controlling a
Flash movie
from Flex:
http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2009/01/example-of-casting-contets-of-swfloader.html
I included links to more basic examples in the code, so you
might find one
of them helpful even if this isn't.

How can I make hyperlinks work from a Flash/SWF presentation?

How do you make hyperlinks/buttons work in Flash/SWF Captivate 5.5 presentations? This did not seem to be an issue with Version 4. I cannot publish to video (i.e. mp4) or as an executable file for posting on our internal system. If it cannot be done in Flash/SWF, how else can I get buttons/hyperlinks to work? Thank you.

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CSS Template in Dreamweaver, cannot make flash(swf) show ???

Hi all,
I'm quite new at using dreamweaver, have been using GoLive
some before and I have got a time consuming problem:
To try to get a hang of CSS page designs I've used the Page
Design (CSS) Halo Right nav that comes with DW8.
I've learnt pretty much how it works BUT, I cannot make a
flash file visible when inserted to the page design ????
It does not show if I insert it to an existing div tag or if
I insert it in a new layer. What am I doing wrong ?
(same goes for images)
Need help quickly.
Thanks!

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> OK!,
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Submeny
> dissapears?
> may be related to the javascript error ?
> //Bosse
>

Flash swf cannot be emulated

I'm creating Wallpaper content for Flash enabled devices. In
an effort to test swf files created in Flash CS3, I am opening them
in Device central. Even though I attempt open the file into an
emulated phone that supports Flash Lite 2.0 and Wallpapers, I get a
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Lite version of this file is too high for the Flash Lite player on
this device."
I thought that swf's from CS3 files were backward compatible
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Is it that the emulator is not working properly but the
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Is it that the emulator is not working properly but the
devices will read the files?
Thanks,
Bart

Do you know what version the SWF files were published as?
FL1.1, FL2.0, FL2.1, FL3.0?
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How backwards compatible are PDF Porfolios, exactly?

I can't find any definitive info in online help, Padova's Bible, or elsewhere on how backwards-compatible PDF portfolios are. Hoping to get some help here.
I know that they can be opened in Reader 8 (as a package), can they be opened in Reader 4, 5, 6, or 7? (none of which I still have installed here). In other words, if I send out a PDF Portfolio "blind" ... have no idea what version of Reader the recipient might have ... what's the worst scenario? I could give the recipient a heads-up in the email carrying the attachment, if I knew.
What does a Reader 4, 5, 6, or 7 user see when they (try to) open the portfolio? Does anyone know?
I sent a portfolio containing a dozen PDFs and a ZIP to a new vendor of mine a couple days ago. No flash files or anything. I emailed her last night to make sure she got the files, she just sent me this:
>I got a file. I've been unable to open it yet. I had to download some software, and then I had to see clients, so I don't know what's in the file yet.
>I'll let you know at end today if I have problems. Unfortunately, I'm i the field most of the day today, and was all day yesterday as well.
And this is a savvy Mac user. (Not a designer though.) Other people I may send this to may not be so motivated, or even have the right user privileges, to download and install software ... I'm guessing she's trying to download Reader 9.
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AM

Hi Richard, Anne-Marie,
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I'm using Acro 9 (trial version currently) and I think most of my users have Reader 7 but, as with Anne-Marie, I certainly would not want to make them feel they have to upgrade just to access my docs.
For anyone interested, this is how I've worked it out so far:
1. Create an alternative cover page and PDF it.
- Note where you've put it.
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3. On the View menu, select Portfolio and then choose Cover Page.
4. On the vertical Icon bar (left column, 3 buttons on my set up), click Pages icon(topmost).
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Matt

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I tried opening a project that was done with ver 4.5 but it just said that "Crystal Xcelsius is unable to load this file. This file may be corrupt or may have features that cannot be supported by this version of Crystal Xcelsius." So i guess I probably have to recreate the project in the 2008 version to take advantage of the new features available. So I imported the excel datasheet used in the old project to a new project in Xcelsius 2008 and tried recreating the objects from scratch. I had started with an accordion menu and two list boxes and then I decided to export to swf to test. However, the result was disappointing. I could only see the two list boxes but not the accordion menu. There was a message saying "Initializing..." that stayed. Does this mean I have to recreate the excel data from scratch as well?

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Wedding songs are a very important factor to consider when making your wedding flash photo gallery. They set the general mood and tone for your gallery, while also allowing you to express your feelings through music. You may find the perfect wedding songs out of hundreds of popular wedding songs and music through Amazon.com or iTunes.
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It is advisable that you preview the wedding flash gallery at least once, before you publish it. Click and drag mouse for scrolling and tilting the 3D flash gallery. Click on the thumbnail to zoom in and out the photos. You have several options to share and publish your 3D wedding photo gallery, such as SWF, EXE and HTML. It depends on your needs.
OK, now your wedding flash gallery is done. What do you think of the wedding flash gallery that I made for my sister? End with my sister's sentences "Fun is not ending, romantic is not ending, and love is just beginning!" Wish your wedding pictures can also be splendid as my sister's, and your love is just beginning, enjoy!
know more:
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http://www.aneesoft.com/tutorials/3d-flash-gallery/make-wedding-flash-gallery-with-songs.h tml

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New to flash, swf loaded while changing size

i'm trying to create a button that will replace the current
swf with another and i want the size to change between the various
sizes of each page. i'm currently using the following code in the
action inspector:
on(release){loadMovieNum("myfilename.swf",0);
i know there has to be a simple way to do this! a very
grateful thanks to anyone who tries to help!

A: new to flash, swf loaded while changing size

b3autiful_dizaster wrote:
> i'm trying to create a button that will replace the
current swf with another
> and i want the size to change between the various sizes
of each page. i'm
> currently using the following code in the action
inspector:
>
> on(release){loadMovieNum("myfilename.swf",0);
> }
>
> i know there has to be a simple way to do this! a very
grateful thanks to
> anyone who tries to help!
You can't change size dynamically as it is defined by the
object embed tags.
You could use WMODE transparency which could help you fake it
tho not always best
solution to go with WMODE. It's a very buggy parameter.
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appear over the html and you
can see the HTML content trough the movie.
You could define some solid shape for the background on
bottom layer to make it look
like SWF background, than change it with the other loaded
movie making it appear as it
changed size while the over all flash size stats the same. As
said above - faking it.
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Is it possible to center a flash .swf file on a website, and then disable horizontal scrolling?
I made my website in Flash Catalyst, and I made the width 1700px and the height 1200px. I made the width large because I wanted it to look good in the largest screen resolutions, but my biggest problem now that I've finished making the website is putting it up. Simply embedding it makes it scroll horizontally all the way to 1700px, which isn't good for those with small browsers.
Originally, I was planning on making the flash file the background in CSS (using body {background: url(FILE.swf) no-repeat #000 top center}) but then I found out you can't put .swf's as backgrounds.
Basically, I want to know if it's possible to center the .swf horizontally, and then disallow horizontal scrolling. I want to keep vertical scrolling,
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Is it possible to center a flash .swf file on a website, and then disable horizontal scrolling?
Yes, but it introduces other problems. With scrolling disabled, you might not be able to see all the page. I DO NOT recommend what you are trying to do. Flash scaling would most likely give you better results.
Background images if intended to cover a large area are typically very small images which are repeated to create a pattern. Using one large image will still never cover all the possible screen resolutions or page sizes... for example larger than 1700 or taller than 1200 pixels.
Centering requires a set dimension, like 1700 so auto set margins would center it, but it still may not cover 100% as using a width of 100% would.
That being said, turn off horizontal scroll and leave vert on with:
overflow-y: auto !important;
overflow-x: hidden !important
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Here a sample page that should get you going... dimensions are smaller so you can see how it works... the principle is the same.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>No Scroll</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main_container">
<div id="flash">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="800" height="600" id="overflow" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="overflow.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffff00" /><embed src="overflow.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffff00" width="800" height="600" name="overflow" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>
<div id="content">
<p align="center">This is the center</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Best of luck!
Adninjastrator

Why would certain users not be able to open a mail to url from a Flash swf on my website?

1. Because they're using Android or iOS and can't see the Flash container.
2. Because they have Flash Player, but NOT Shockwave, which works for Interactive content like games and links in Flash containers.
3. ActiveX controls are blocking Flash content in IE.
4. Any of about a dozen other things.
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