Others use a intermediary AS2 swf that talks to the AS3 via localconnection.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] talking to Flash SWF's I'm using external interface which works a little like local connection except you can have synchronus calls.. I'm using this api/examples : http://www.flashextensions.com/products/flashinterface.php I'm using the flashmaps flash 8 component with flex and although it hasn't been plain sailing it is working. Grant. ----- Original Message ----- From: Yiit_Boyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: 4/3/07 5:38 PM Subject: [flexcoders] talking to Flash SWF's > hi all; > in one of my projects; i wanted to use some of my old flash 8 projects > as external SWF's. I tried to use SWFLoader but i was not able to extract the content as a movie clip (so couldn't have control over the loaded swf) hardly after i realized that the problem is AS2. Then i downloaded Flash 9 Alpha; and tried to compile my old projects with AS3 but it was so difficult since _root , _x etc. are disabled and changed in AS3. actually i couldn't compiled my old codes error free... > > So is there a way to communicate to AS2 SWF's after loading them into flex dynamically ? what i mean by control is : > =listen swf's events > =control the movieclip (play stop etc) =call swf's functions... > > if the answer is no; so sorry for those dying projects :( . > thanks... > > yigit > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 > hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
