Runtime Sharing & Component Inspector Bug

I'm not sure if this is a bug with Flash or me doing something wrong. Here are the steps to reproduce:
1) Create "Source.fla"
draw a box on the stage and convert it to a movie clip. Call it "Component"
export Component for actionscript. Give make the class name "Component"
also, check "Export for runtime sharing" and put "Source.swf" in the URL. Click OK.
Next, right click the Component in the library and select "Component Definition..."
click the "+" button to add a parameter, give it the name "label" with type "String". Click OK
Save and test the movie so "Source.swf" is compiled out.
2) Create "Destination.fla" in the same directory
close Source.fla
go to File > Import > Open External Library...
select Source.fla. Click OK
you should see another Library panel show up with the Component symbol in it.
drag the Component symbol from that library onto the stage
save and run it. Everything should be fine: you should see your Component symbol from Source.fla should up on Destination.fla's stage.
3) The Bug!
now, click the imported Component symbol on Destination.fla's stage. And go to the component inspector.
you should see the "label" property we created earlier in step 1
change the value to something other than the default
save and run it.
you should see this compile time error: "Scene 1 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Component."
What's up with that eh? Seems like a Flash bug to me. Unless I'm missing something.
FYI: I'm using Adobe Flash Professional CS5 (11.0.2.489)
Message was edited by: RovertNnud

Yep, the problem definitely still exists in CS6 12.0.2.529. I have hundreds of source files for lessons being used by students from PA to TX, and this BUG is making it impossible to work with the files.
First of all, if a library object is imported for runtime sharing, then it shoudl be loaded from that external source when the file is opened, and flash should keep a file system watcher on the source RSL file so that when it changes, it automatically updates the library definition.
Furthermore, the "Authortime Sharing" seems to handle these updates automatically, but it requires a source FLA file, and once you set one, there's no way to unlink from it. If you decide you don't want to use Authortime Sharing, and just use the "import for runtime sharing" option instead, you're screwed. There is no way to unassociate a file from a source FLA once you choose one. This needs to be fixed immediatly, or RSL and Authortime sharing are useless in Flash CS6.
Did you guys somehow patch CS5.5, without carrying the fixes forward to CS6? lol. This is confusing.

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Details
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[SWF] D:\runtime issue\importer.swf - 1920 bytes after decompression
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[SWF] D:\runtime issue\ example.swf - 441708 bytes after decompression
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want to make sure I supply enough information for this complex
scenario.
Basically, I'm trying to make a simple 2D fighting game like
Street Fighter, so I'll use a character... Let's say... Ryu(cause
he's the coolest!)
I'm using external linking to try and reduce the sizes of the
swfs from the FX in the game w/o having to create a complex dummy
system. I've got most of the research completed, the final hitch
that I've encountered is how Flash CS3 handles the linkage setup.
Here's the setup I have with Ryu:
/game/rsrc/characters/ryu/flash/Impact.fla
/game/rsrc/characters/ryu/flash/
Impact.swf
/game/rsrc/fx/
ImpactFX.fla
/game/rsrc/fx/
ImpactFX.swf
/game/bin-debug/Game.swf
So ImpactFX is the VFX that will be used in all character's
animations. It's a dust cloud that appears when ryu hits the
ground.
Ryu's Impact file references ImpactFX's library. There will
probably be others like WallImpact, etc.
Game is the main game.
So if I have 200 Impact animations with Ryu, w/o using
runtime sharing, I have to take the size hit, roughly 200 * sizeof(
ImpactFX.swf), since the assets are burnt into each
individual Impact animation's swf. With runtime sharing, I only
have to download
ImpactFX.swf, so I get major savings over that VFX. Right?
I've been able to get runtime sharing to work in specific
instances, but not in a general system.
So the first thing I did:
I setup the shared symbols in
ImpactFX.fla to 'Export for runtime sharing'. I used the
default symbol names, and used the URL '
ImpactFX.swf.'
Dragged the folder that contained the shared symbols from
ImpactFX.fla to
Impact.fla. This setup all the symbol's correctly.
Added them to my scene and ran(
Impact.swf). No dice! I got this error:
Error opening URL
'file:///H|/flash/game/rsrc/characters/ryu/flash/ImpactFX.swf'
From this, I ascertained that
Impact.swf was looking for
ImpactFX.swf in the same directory as it.
As a quick test I copied the
ImpactFX.swf to the same directory as
Impact.swf. Re-ran, and success! The swf savings are there,
but it's not ideal at all, I have to copy the swfs to the same
directory???
From there I changed the linkage up a bit. From the library
in
Impact.fla, I changed the Import URL to
../../../fx/ImpactFX.swf. Still success! But... Some more
weirdness here, I only changed it on one symbol, and during runtime
it worked for all symbols... Even though the other symbols still
point to just
ImpactFX.swf...
So this works fine when I run and test the animation from the
fla. However, when I try to run it from the
Game.swf, DISASTER! This one was even more frustrating; the
flash player doesn't seem to give the previous error message(even
though it's the same issue.) I traced this problem down before and
found that the
Impact.swf would never return a 'loaded' event. Not cool. Of
course, copying the
ImpactFX.swf to the appropriate path fixes this and it runs
beautifully.
So where does that leave me? There's a way to get this to
work, but it's not pretty at all, especially for artists. The ideal
setup I would like to have the artist working is:
1. Open the FX library fla, pin the library, and drag drop
the appropriate symbols for the animation.
2. Save and export.
3. Run and confirm in the fla's test frame work.
4. Run and confirm in the game.
Unfortunately, with all the swf location copying and pathing
this adds too much complexity for an art pipeline.
So that's my dilemma. The main question I am trying to figure
out now is, what's the best pipeline solution for this scenario? I
want to be able to runtime share these files with multiple shell
programs. A solution is forming, but I don't think it's the best.
It seems like when you setup a symbol to 'export for run-time
sharing', the URL defines the path the parent importing swf uses to
find the runtime resources, which seems a little backwards...
I tried loading
ImpactFX.swf before
Impact.swf. That didn't work, even though they are in the
same security sandbox.
Other questions:
1. Is there a way to make loading swfs throw that 'Error
opening URL' error?
2. Is there a way to say 'hey flash player, the file you are
looking to link is over here!'
3. Or even better, 'hey load these runtime assets before you
load the assets that reference them!'
4. Is this necessary? I'm assuming this is a required
savings, because if we have a lot of animations with FX, we're
going to want to cut down on our download size. Figuring out this
pipeline may also allow us to load one large library file for the
game animations, and just load that.
5. Does the security sandbox system have anything to do with
this.
Any thoughts or ideas? Feel free to point me towards
documentation, I haven't had much luck finding any detailed
documentation for this topic.

Hi Legos,
Did you ever solve this problem? I'd like to organize my flash files similarly, but I too have had weird issues with runtime sharing.
Also, how do you debug into the imported symbol?
Aaron

Runtime Sharing & Component Inspector Bug

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