--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- 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.
There's a public Beta of Captivate 4 going on now. I would suspect that this version uses AS3. HTH; Amy
