Thanks to both you and Ken for responding. I figured I was going to have to end up buying CS3. It's hard to justify the cost when all I want is a single frame swf image, they should consider a scaled down version of flash for people like me. As for other products like SwishMax, going through all the red tape for approval is not worth it.
I'm using swf images for their vector properties. I put in a zoom in/out feature on my flex app and the swf image objects are the only ones that keep a clean line. As for the SWFLoader, I never considered using it. I built a class that inherited from the Image class and point it's source to the swf image file location. I assume the SWFLoader is more for swf files that have an actual timeline? All my images are single frame although we might consider an image with action later on. Tommy Geist United Parcel Service Program Management Group (PMG) Atlas : 5 - 490 - 6418 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leif Wells Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] Flash 4 .swf vs. Flash 9 .swf Mystery Tommy, Loading non-Flash Player 9 SWF files into a Flex 2/3 application is often very wonky because the Flash 8 or lower file gets loaded into a different virtual machine (AVM1) than the VM that Flash 9 content is loading (AVM2). Generally speaking, those two VMs do not speak to one another. If all you are doing is converting the images to Flash 9 SWFs then you could follow Ken's advice. My question to you: Why SWF? Why not keep the files as JPEG files? Also, how are you loading these files? Are you using Loader? SWFLoader? Leif On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Ken T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Well I would think that some functionality would more than likely be missing within the swf provided by Corel not only because it was created by Corel (non-adobe) , but because Flash added much more functionality then what is stored in flash 4 with its most recent version of flash player (flash 9). You may want to consider buying Flash CS3 or downloading SwishMax2 it also offers a trial download and I believe it uses the most recent version of flash player. -Ken ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:35:01 -0400 Subject: RE: [AFFUG Discuss] Flash 4 .swf vs. Flash 9 .swf Mystery I'm sorry, I wasn't clear enough. My flex app compiles into a swf app that uses flex 9. In the app I have a stick figure person image that is also a swf. There are two different stick figure swf's, an original version that according to the properties requires flash 9, and a Corel Draw stick figure swf person whose properties says that it requires flash 4. Both stick figure swf images display correctly when I run my flex app and the context menu I built for those images displays fine as well. The problem is that the original stick figure (flash 9) fires the context menu events correctly but the Corel stick figure person (flash 4) does not and I can't figure out why. I'm attaching the two swf images. The Person.swf is the Corel Draw (Flash 4) swf and the PersonBlue.swf is the original (Flash 9) swf. Is there prehaps some kind of setting that we need to adjust for the Corel Draw image? Tommy Geist United Parcel Service Program Management Group (PMG) Atlas : 5 - 490 - 6418 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] On Behalf Of Ken T Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:16 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [AFFUG Discuss] Flash 4 .swf vs. Flash 9 .swf Mystery If I'm not mistaken flex will only work with flash player 9 and that could be part of your problem. -Ken ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:36:48 -0400 Subject: [AFFUG Discuss] Flash 4 .swf vs. Flash 9 .swf Mystery Here's one for you Flash guru's out there. I'm building an interactive map in flex and I'm using .swf images. I built a few .swf images by downloading a flash trial, importing the image into CS3 Flash Professional and then exporting the image as a .swf object. I don't have any timelines, it's only a simple 1 frame image. Now my trial version has expired and we are using Corel to export a .swf image. The absolute only difference between the original swf and the corel swf is that the original swf requires flash player 9, the corel swf requires flash player 4. The problem is that when I change the context menu items for the image in flex, the context menu comes up correctly for the corel image but the context menu event doesn't fire. It never gets to my handle event function. The original swf worked fine. Is there a problem with my code in that I'm not handling a Flash 4 .swf correctly or is this an issue with flash 4 swf vs. flash 9 swf themselves? 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