Erik, Thanks for the great link and I'm finding this extremely useful. I was a bit scared at the thought of being closed in, but it appears that we have everything we need to begin this gradual transition.
Best Regards, Dennis -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of eerkmans Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Transitioning Flash RIA to Flex Hi, Yes you can communicate with a loaded SWF from flex, see this page for extensive examples: http://www.markme.com/pent/archives/006600.cfm You can also export a movieclip in your flash library as an SWC component, and then paste the component in your flex code like this: <myFlashSWC /> erik. --- In [email protected], "Dennis Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if any of you have tackled a problem that I'm currently faced > with. We have a very extensive RIA built with Flash MX Pro and V2 > components. I'm pushing for our company to start leveraging Flex and we'd > like to implement a gradual transition if at all possible. We have several > swfs that contain a good bit of logic that I'd like to load into Flex. In > our current application these swf files listen for different events from our > main tree control and act accordingly. I'd like to avoid rewriting these > swfs initially and load them into Flex in the meantime. So my main question > is if these are swfs are loaded into the Flex framework, how can we interact > with them from Flex? Let's say that I want my swf authored in the Flash IDE > to be able to listen to change events broadcasted from a Flex tree control, > is this at all possible? Also, if I want to communicate in the other > direction, ie > > <mx:Loader id="swfAuthoredInFlash" contentPath="canvas.swf" /> > > Can I do something like swfAuthoredInFlash.method() from Flex? I hope this > make sense and I'm ultimately looking for a way where these two can play > nicely until we roll our entire application in Flex. If what I mentioned > above does not seem feasible are there any other approaches I can take other > than "all or nothing"? Thanks in advance for your help. > > Best Regards, > Dennis Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
