RE: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
If you are loading one movie to another use following technique: Main movie Main movie variable defined: Var testVar:String = Hello world; External movie loaded to level 1: External movie variable defined: Var testVar:String = Hello world - external; Now let's load external movie to level 1: Trace(_level0.testVar) prints Hello world; Trace(_root.testVar) prints Hello world - external; Trace(_level1.testVar) prints Hello world - external; Then same external movie we'll load to some mc called container_mc which located on the main movie timeline: Trace(_level0.testVar) prints Hello world; Trace(_root.testVar) prints Hello world; Trace(_root.container_mc.testVar) prints Hello world - external; Trace(_level0.container_mc.testVar) prints Hello world - external; Hope it will help you to undestand Flash scope Igor V. aka The Helmsman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rifled Cloaca Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 5:29 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files? Are you simply opening the SWF file directly, or loading it into a wrapper SWF? If you're loading it directly... it's just _root.var1 _root.var2 ... If you're loading it into a wrapper, like so: _root.myClip.loadMovie(path/to/my/movie.swf); once it loads, you'll be able to access the data with: _root.myClip.var1 _root.myClip.var2 ... Make sure your movie has loaded. Use the MovieClipLoader class and assign an onLoad handler to access the variables. -rc On 7/18/06, Jeff Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any problems getting variable assignments into the SWF file. I have problems accessing their values when I'm playing the movie. The SWF contains some ActionScript in frame 1 which sets variables like title=My First Movie, year=2006. But how can my Flash player access those variables when it loads and plays the movie? Are they in some oddball namespace like _root.somethingOrOther thx, jeff On Jul 18, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Rifled Cloaca wrote: Or you could create a SWF using MTASC or the Flash IDE, and replace the variables after it is published like this guy does: http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2005/01/27/swf-recombination/ On 7/16/06, Mike Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would build a wrapper MovieClip class extension for your compiled SWF, and use LocalConnection to send/receive the values. That is, use LocalConnection in both the compiled swfs and in the wrapper. The wrapper is the receiver and the compiled clips are the broadcasters. http://www.osflash.org/localconnection hth, Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
I'm pretty sure Flash 9 has built in metadata capabilities, although I've never used them and I'm not aware of any way to access them from Actionscript code. Here's some of the arguments you can use with mxmlc. -metadata.contributor name -metadata.creator name -metadata.date text -metadata.description text -metadata.language code -metadata.localized-description text lang -metadata.localized-title title lang -metadata.publisher name -metadata.title text Of course, it's probably Flash 9 only. On 7/20/06, The Helmsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are loading one movie to another use following technique: Main movie Main movie variable defined: Var testVar:String = Hello world; External movie loaded to level 1: External movie variable defined: Var testVar:String = Hello world - external; Now let's load external movie to level 1: Trace(_level0.testVar) prints Hello world; Trace(_root.testVar) prints Hello world - external; Trace(_level1.testVar) prints Hello world - external; Then same external movie we'll load to some mc called container_mc which located on the main movie timeline: Trace(_level0.testVar) prints Hello world; Trace(_root.testVar) prints Hello world; Trace(_root.container_mc.testVar) prints Hello world - external; Trace(_level0.container_mc.testVar) prints Hello world - external; Hope it will help you to undestand Flash scope Igor V. aka The Helmsman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rifled Cloaca Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 5:29 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files? Are you simply opening the SWF file directly, or loading it into a wrapper SWF? If you're loading it directly... it's just _root.var1 _root.var2 ... If you're loading it into a wrapper, like so: _root.myClip.loadMovie(path/to/my/movie.swf); once it loads, you'll be able to access the data with: _root.myClip.var1 _root.myClip.var2 ... Make sure your movie has loaded. Use the MovieClipLoader class and assign an onLoad handler to access the variables. -rc On 7/18/06, Jeff Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any problems getting variable assignments into the SWF file. I have problems accessing their values when I'm playing the movie. The SWF contains some ActionScript in frame 1 which sets variables like title=My First Movie, year=2006. But how can my Flash player access those variables when it loads and plays the movie? Are they in some oddball namespace like _root.somethingOrOther thx, jeff On Jul 18, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Rifled Cloaca wrote: Or you could create a SWF using MTASC or the Flash IDE, and replace the variables after it is published like this guy does: http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2005/01/27/swf-recombination/ On 7/16/06, Mike Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would build a wrapper MovieClip class extension for your compiled SWF, and use LocalConnection to send/receive the values. That is, use LocalConnection in both the compiled swfs and in the wrapper. The wrapper is the receiver and the compiled clips are the broadcasters. http://www.osflash.org/localconnection hth, Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http
Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
Are you simply opening the SWF file directly, or loading it into a wrapper SWF? If you're loading it directly... it's just _root.var1 _root.var2 ... If you're loading it into a wrapper, like so: _root.myClip.loadMovie(path/to/my/movie.swf); once it loads, you'll be able to access the data with: _root.myClip.var1 _root.myClip.var2 ... Make sure your movie has loaded. Use the MovieClipLoader class and assign an onLoad handler to access the variables. -rc On 7/18/06, Jeff Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any problems getting variable assignments into the SWF file. I have problems accessing their values when I'm playing the movie. The SWF contains some ActionScript in frame 1 which sets variables like title=My First Movie, year=2006. But how can my Flash player access those variables when it loads and plays the movie? Are they in some oddball namespace like _root.somethingOrOther thx, jeff On Jul 18, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Rifled Cloaca wrote: Or you could create a SWF using MTASC or the Flash IDE, and replace the variables after it is published like this guy does: http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2005/01/27/swf-recombination/ On 7/16/06, Mike Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would build a wrapper MovieClip class extension for your compiled SWF, and use LocalConnection to send/receive the values. That is, use LocalConnection in both the compiled swfs and in the wrapper. The wrapper is the receiver and the compiled clips are the broadcasters. http://www.osflash.org/localconnection hth, Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
Or you could create a SWF using MTASC or the Flash IDE, and replace the variables after it is published like this guy does: http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2005/01/27/swf-recombination/ On 7/16/06, Mike Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would build a wrapper MovieClip class extension for your compiled SWF, and use LocalConnection to send/receive the values. That is, use LocalConnection in both the compiled swfs and in the wrapper. The wrapper is the receiver and the compiled clips are the broadcasters. http://www.osflash.org/localconnection hth, Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
I don't have any problems getting variable assignments into the SWF file. I have problems accessing their values when I'm playing the movie. The SWF contains some ActionScript in frame 1 which sets variables like title=My First Movie, year=2006. But how can my Flash player access those variables when it loads and plays the movie? Are they in some oddball namespace like _root.somethingOrOther thx, jeff On Jul 18, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Rifled Cloaca wrote: Or you could create a SWF using MTASC or the Flash IDE, and replace the variables after it is published like this guy does: http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2005/01/27/swf-recombination/ On 7/16/06, Mike Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would build a wrapper MovieClip class extension for your compiled SWF, and use LocalConnection to send/receive the values. That is, use LocalConnection in both the compiled swfs and in the wrapper. The wrapper is the receiver and the compiled clips are the broadcasters. http://www.osflash.org/localconnection hth, Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
Mike et al - I'm targeting the current Flash player releases on Linux, Windows, and Mac, so that would be Flash 7 through 9. I'm generating the SWF's using a SWF compiler that I wrote, so I have total control over the SWF file that I generate. Hopes this helps, -jeff On Jul 15, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Mike Britton wrote: A couple questions for you Jeff: 1. What version of Flash player are you targeting? 2. How are you generating the swfs? Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com On Jul 15, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Jeff Stearns wrote: I hope that you'll take pity on a Flash novice. I'm an experienced programmer, but Flash is very new to me. I need to generate SWF movie files containing embedded data such as title, production year, etc. The Flash player needs to be able to read these values when it starts playing the movie. I'd really appreciate advice on how best to do this. I wrote the program which generates the SWF files, so I have complete control over their content. I tried embedding variable assignments in the first frame of my SWF files by generating the bytecodes to perform variable assignments (ActionPush year, ActionPush 2006, ActionSetVariable). But I can't figure out how to access these variables from the Flash player. Hints? Or is there a better way to approach this? All I want is for the player to be able to extract a few values from each movie file. Thanks for your help! -jeff ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
I would sudgest the following. 1. you can simply define variables by creating an AS file the complier parses. you can declare the vars in there 2. There is an existing open source complier called MTASC (osflash.org has lots of info on this) hope that helps On 7/16/06, Jeff Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike et al - I'm targeting the current Flash player releases on Linux, Windows, and Mac, so that would be Flash 7 through 9. I'm generating the SWF's using a SWF compiler that I wrote, so I have total control over the SWF file that I generate. Hopes this helps, -jeff On Jul 15, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Mike Britton wrote: A couple questions for you Jeff: 1. What version of Flash player are you targeting? 2. How are you generating the swfs? Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com On Jul 15, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Jeff Stearns wrote: I hope that you'll take pity on a Flash novice. I'm an experienced programmer, but Flash is very new to me. I need to generate SWF movie files containing embedded data such as title, production year, etc. The Flash player needs to be able to read these values when it starts playing the movie. I'd really appreciate advice on how best to do this. I wrote the program which generates the SWF files, so I have complete control over their content. I tried embedding variable assignments in the first frame of my SWF files by generating the bytecodes to perform variable assignments (ActionPush year, ActionPush 2006, ActionSetVariable). But I can't figure out how to access these variables from the Flash player. Hints? Or is there a better way to approach this? All I want is for the player to be able to extract a few values from each movie file. Thanks for your help! -jeff ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
That's basically what I'm doing now. (I used a different compiler instead of MTASC, but the difference seems irrelevant here.) But how do I read those variables from my UI running in the Flash player? I want to load my movie and then read the variables. How do you folks do that? thanks! -jeff On Jul 16, 2006, at 9:53 AM, James Deakin wrote: I would sudgest the following. 1. you can simply define variables by creating an AS file the complier parses. you can declare the vars in there 2. There is an existing open source complier called MTASC (osflash.org has lots of info on this) hope that helps On Jul 15, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Jeff Stearns wrote: I hope that you'll take pity on a Flash novice. I'm an experienced programmer, but Flash is very new to me. I need to generate SWF movie files containing embedded data such as title, production year, etc. The Flash player needs to be able to read these values when it starts playing the movie. I'd really appreciate advice on how best to do this. I wrote the program which generates the SWF files, so I have complete control over their content. I tried embedding variable assignments in the first frame of my SWF files by generating the bytecodes to perform variable assignments (ActionPush year, ActionPush 2006, ActionSetVariable). But I can't figure out how to access these variables from the Flash player. Hints? Or is there a better way to approach this? All I want is for the player to be able to extract a few values from each movie file. Thanks for your help! -jeff ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
I would build a wrapper MovieClip class extension for your compiled SWF, and use LocalConnection to send/receive the values. That is, use LocalConnection in both the compiled swfs and in the wrapper. The wrapper is the receiver and the compiled clips are the broadcasters. http://www.osflash.org/localconnection hth, Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to embed metadata in SWF files?
A couple questions for you Jeff: 1. What version of Flash player are you targeting? 2. How are you generating the swfs? Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
