----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Couple questions
> Bruce, there are a mass of powerpoint to flash converters out there - > google > is your friend. > > The one I've worked with produced fairly large files and the output is an > AS1/AS2 swf. > > If I were writing a slide player, I'd probably use Flex, though for a > slide > player it could probably just as well be all in actionscript so Flash or > Flex is neither here nor there. One thing I should add - when I was researching powerpoint to flash converters a few months back - none of them produced AS3 swfs, so controlling the playback from Flex (or Flash AS3) is a little problematic - you'd need an intemediary AS2 swf to talk between the runtime systems. Some of the converters include players for playing back the converted files. Eventually I wrote a player using AS2. Good luck. Paul > Paul > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "brucewhealton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 6:01 AM > Subject: [flexcoders] Couple questions > > >> Hello all, >> I had a few questions, where I could use some suggestions or >> opinions and ideas. One is regarding Powerpoint-like presentations >> online. If you were going to do something like this, would you use >> Flash or Flex - maybe these are not even the best choices? Are there >> extensions for Flash or Flex to convert a powerpoint file to something >> that would play in the Flash Player? Actually, I'm not sure if there >> even are any extensions for Flex like there are for other Adobe >> products, but I bet there are. >> Next, I noticed that there is a nice AIR application for reading >> Flexcoder messages. I'm only aware of one, the only additional thing >> I'd want is the ability to post to the group from the AIR application. >> Can anyone suggest some good sources for a variety of AIR applications? >> Lastly, are there any script collections of free or commercial >> Flex MXML/Actionscript applications that one could check out, such as >> what there are at http://hotscripts.com and other similar places. >> thanks, >> Bruce >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> -- >> Flexcoders Mailing List >> FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt >> Alternative FAQ location: >> https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 >> Search Archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups >> Links >> >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > >
