Using sounds in flash catalyst?

Is it possible to use sound files?
Example:
When you click on a button, is it possible to play a sound?
Thanks!
OnlyNK

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/445228 :
Importing sound files and importing them isn't supported in the current build, but it is on our list features for future releases.
- Ty
I've asked it to soon!
The same question has already been answered.
But I couldn't find it first...
Long live Google!
Cheers!
OnlyNk

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Using Lightroom Flash Galleries in Flash Catalyst

Hi there. I love the ability of Lightroom to create brilliant Flash Galleries especially since there are so many plug-ins out there for the Lightroom Web Module.
My questions is, Is there a way to take the exported Flash Gallery from Lightroom, and use it in Flash Catalyst? In Flash Catalyst I have tried to import the .swf file created by Lightroom but when I try to view the Catalyst project, the gallery doesn't work. I have also tried after the fact to move the remaining files exported by Lightroom into the same folder Catalyst places the .swf file, but still to no avail.
Am I doing something wrong here? I'm not a programmer and have limited knowledge of code, but I'm also a quick learner and would very much like some help finding a solution to this.
If you have any advice, it would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Stef

I'm not familiar with Lightroom in particular, but there is a tutorial on using a similar swf gallery here.
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The lightroom files are all in the same location relative to the swf when you move them to your project
If your html page and your Catalyst swf are in different directories, make sure you set the base url
If you're still having trouble, you may want to install the debug player from here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
It can generally show you any problems that pop up. They may not be very human-readable, but if you post them here I bet someone can help you decrypt them.

Flash Catalyst swf won't load as external swf

I'm loving Flash Catalyst since the beta app came out. I've transformed several design's into flash components with great ease. But when I try to use the swf Flash Catalyst spits out as an external movieclip, it wont load. It loads just fine in the html doc but not when I try to load it with a flash CS4 swf.
I don't have the slightest idea what to look for in the actionscript FC wrights, so is there a way to make it work or can I consider this a real bug?

The swfs that Flash Catalyst generates use the Flex framework and can't be used as standalone movie clips. If you'd like to use a componet that you've made in FC along with something you've created in Flash Authoring, I would recommend importing your FC project into Flash Builder and then loading your swf from Flash Authoring into the Flex project. When you do this, the Flex runtime will be available to the components you've made in FC and everything ought to work properly.

FAQ: How can I make my Flash Catalyst application scale/use a liquid layout?

Flash Catalyst CS5 currently only supports applications with fixed dimensions. Custom components you create in Catalyst have absolute sizing.
If you want to experiment with creating resizable applications (liquid layouts) and components in a preview of the next version of Flash Catalyst, codenamed "Panini", you can find more information here:
Introducing Adobe Flash Catalyst "Panini"
Download Adobe Flash Catalyst "Panini"
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Keep in mind that Flash Catalyst "Panini" preview is meant for exploration and testing, not real production. If you are doing real production work, here are some options that work with Flash Catalyst CS5 and Flash Builder:
Liquid Layouts
If you are building an application that requires relative constraints, you can take the FXP file from Flash Catalyst into Flash Builder, and apply constraints there so that your components resize according to your application dimensions.
For more info, see this Help topic:
Using constraint-based layouts in Flash Builder
SWF Scaling
If you want your swf to scale, without relative constraints, there's a simple way to make that work in Builder as well. Simply save out your FXP file from Flash Catalyst and import it into Flash Builder. Open up the "Main.mxml" file. Remove the width and height attributes on the Application tag, and add the attribute:
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<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
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                  xmlns:ATE="http://ns.adobe.com/ate/2009"
                  xmlns:ai="http://ns.adobe.com/ai/2009"
                  xmlns:flm="http://ns.adobe.com/flame/2008"
                  xmlns:lib="assets.graphics.*"
                  xmlns:components="components.*"
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                  preloaderChromeColor="#FFFFFF"
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Message was edited by: Chip Davis

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

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Any more ideas. You've been really, really helpful so far!

Can I use Flash with Flash catalyst?

I was wondering, since Flash Catalyst apparently only uses
"rudimentary animation", can I use Flash Professional with Flash
catalyst? I would like to do more complex animations, and I was
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Catalyst,

Flash Professional will definitely be the tool for creating
complex animation. The tweaks they have done to the animation
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for creating animation. Designers will absolutely love how easy it
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the trial software I received at Adobe MAX... it appears you can
import SWFs. In fact, as soon as you import them, they start
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After Flash Catalyst discontinued - What Workflow Designer / Developper to use? and how skin compone

Hi,
Now that Flash Catalyst is discontinued before being totally usable,
I used Flash Catalyst for skinning components and prototyping design of App.
So i wonder how experienced people do that without Flash Catalyst?
And more im asking to Adobe the same questions. What do you propose to do now what Flash catalyst helped to do until now?
how do you skin components?
how do you work with designers to get their App Pages designs?
in a word, what is the WorkFlow?
Thanks

I couldn't agree more with you that developers need a solid WYSIWYG tool, and Catalyst was Adobe's closest rival to Blend. It had much more potential than the amount of attention it received. Adobe was very foolish pulling the plug on it, not to mention all their other recent decisions related to the Flash Platform.
My point was that with all of the importing and exporting capabilities of Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash Professional, and especially Fireworks, you already have all of the capabilities of Flash Catalyst, at least in regards to making creative assets available to the Flex framework. That was the sole purpose of Catalyst- to bridge the gap between Adobe's design applications and Flex. If you weren't concerned with Flex, Flash Catalyst would be of no use, even if it were still in development. Exporting a Catalyst project to Flash Professional or HTML was never on it's roadmap, although I'm sure I'm not the first person who thought of those possibilities.
Catalyst, simply put, was the FXG editor which Flash Builder's design mode was not. For example, you could not draw a rectangle using Builder's design mode. With Catalyst CS5.5, it allowed you to directly assign FXG assets to MXML skins for ten of the nineteen Spark components which use the MXML skin architecture. This was a huge limitition, and espeically obvious with the new roundtripping feature, because using any of the non-supported components could easily break the connection between Builder & Catalyst. Honestly, myself and many of the Adobe engineers I talked to on the Flash Builder team, still do not understand why Catalyst wasn't merged into Flash Builder in the first place.
Perhaps it's not as useful out of context, but I compiled a presentation a few months ago for my Adobe user group, titled "Creative & Production Harmony": https://acrobat.com/#d=jNyu*qRjpF68tbl*8lCiTw&x=s
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Good information for anyone using Flash Catalyst CS5 !!!

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The way around this is simply to design your project within AI CS5, Fireworks CS5, Photoshop CS5. I started my project out in Illustrator CS5 simply because Flash catalyst will recognize your layers and your individual artboards and will lay them out for you in your Catalyst project. This is the great part!!!
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My project has about 45 different artboards. I created a few extra artboards incase the client wanted to add some stuff later on. I create a catalyst project from my AI project and now I have 45 different states.
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The help files really need to be developed in this area, I guess..
two versions, testing server correct: www.cachetrade.com
Not running swf (with rollover of the yogi on the left): www.desertypalmyoga.com
Is this a hijack or a top-post?
I really just want to understand the issues so I can plan workflow: really quite powerful, that's why this first design in most b+w (though curious how the color overlays and modes will work... )
THANKS!

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Please see this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2120587#2120587
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Hello Everyone !
I'm struggling with Flash Catalyst / Flex, as long as repeating google request in the objective to find an answer, but nothing so far...
Here is the deal : i want to have a clear Workflow between Catalyst and Builder. Therefore, i have two separates projects : one is modified by catalyst only and contains all my application's skins and design. The other one is edited by Flex Builder and contains all the logic. But i run into a very annoying problem, when it comes to Datalist !
I have an itemrenderer in a datalist that displays 3 information in 3 differents fields. Catalyst handles this good with it's conception time data panel. But, when you look at the source code, text properties of the created itemrenderer are binded to some stupide data object : {data.text1}, {data.text2}. That's great, but... In my Flex application, the real data object is more like data.name, data.firstname, data.score...
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