Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Filters - Progressive enhancement for those with the 8+ player?

2006-10-20 Thread John Dowdell
Kevin Cannon wrote: Is it possible to publish a movie as Flash 6, but use the flash filters to add things like drop shadows for those with the Flash 8 or greater plugin? Cedric had a good tip on how to do this in a single file, and Peter discussed the split-file technique as well. But a

[Flashcoders] Flash Filters - Progressive enhancement for those with the 8+ player?

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin Cannon
Hey all, Is it possible to publish a movie as Flash 6, but use the flash filters to add things like drop shadows for those with the Flash 8 or greater plugin? My basic tests haven't resulted in it working, but I suspect there may be a way. Any ideas? Thanks, - Kevin

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Filters - Progressive enhancement for those with the 8+ player?

2006-10-19 Thread cartel . com
We use a simple trick to perform this : Prepare all your assets to be compiled to Flash 6, you will apply filters only by code, then, in your code you need to create a local var called flash when flash version is not 8, like that (sorry for the ugly code, it's just for the demonstration):

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Filters - Progressive enhancement for those with the 8+ player?

2006-10-19 Thread Kevin Cannon
Wow - thanks a lot, seems perfect. Found one of those SWF changer utilities too to help with the conversion. http://www.orison.biz/blogs/chall3ng3r/?p=101 Do you know if there's any problems or caveats of using this method? - Kevin On 19/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Filters - Progressive enhancement for those with the 8+ player?

2006-10-19 Thread Cédric Néhémie
Hi Kevin, Do you know if there's any problems or caveats of using this method? We haven't see any problems at using this trick in our projects, but we use it only for small occasional swf in our site and only to have a better look, not for big game or critical point I think there's probably