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  1. 10-31-2005, 09:36 AM #1
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    loading flash 8 clip into flash mx site

    Hi,

    I'm wondering if it's possible to load an flash 8 .swf into an flash mx site.
    will it still work if users have the flash 8 player? or does it become flash mx when loaded into the site?

    does anybody know this?

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  2. 10-31-2005, 10:23 AM #2
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    Sure thats possible, the users that dont have the Flash 8 player installed will just get a notification that they should update their player. And the users that have the f8 Player will see everything.
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  3. 10-31-2005, 10:24 AM #3
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    pfff, saves a lot of time.

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  4. 10-31-2005, 10:25 AM #4
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    no problem
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  5. 10-31-2005, 04:46 PM #5
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    It's good practice to keep all SWFs published to the same player version.
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  6. 10-31-2005, 05:23 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ray Beez
    It's good practice to keep all SWFs published to the same player version.
    Yes thats true, but as a quick solution its ok i think. If you dont have the time to re-code a mx site into a mx2004+ site then i can imagine doing that
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  7. 11-01-2005, 06:54 AM #7
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    it's a bit of a emergengy solution now. when i have the time i will re-code the entire side but for now i have to be quick...
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  8. 11-01-2005, 08:42 AM #8
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    The only thing that might fail is trying to read _global variables. I've found that _global variables set in player 7 or 8 is not compatible with _global variables in player 6.

    But other than that I don't know of any compatibility errors.

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  9. 11-01-2005, 11:33 AM #9
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    A couple years ago one of my projects was Flash 5. It loaded dozens of external SWF files which I routinely update. When Flash MX came out, and I started to use it, I made the mistake of publishing some of this content as Flash 6. Well, let me tell you that a Flash 5 movie loading Flash 6 swfs didn't work. I would be worried that the same is still true...
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  10. 11-05-2005, 09:50 AM #10
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    I think it's no good. i'm loading a flash 8 swf into my site to upload some files. after that i can't get the site to work like it should. loading an other swf with loadmovie seems to fail after loading the flash 8 swf....

    createEmptyMovie places a movie on _x -330 instead of 0, and so on
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  11. 11-05-2005, 11:01 AM #11
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    Then you'd better re-code the whole thing from the ground up.
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  12. 11-05-2005, 11:12 PM #12
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    I'm pritty sure that you can use fp8 and fp7 in sinc. Check out http://www.macromedia.com/software/f...info/features/ . There is an interactive demo there that shows how much fp8 is better than fp7. Both players are used at the same time, however I'm not sure how they do it. I suspect that they use actionscript to specify what player to use.
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  13. 11-06-2005, 09:37 AM #13
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    Its no mystery how they do that, they just published one swf in flash 7 and the other one in flash 8, there is nothing to it. It just becomes a hassle when you have a lot of mx style code all over the place that doesnt work in f7 and f8, then you would have to re-code the thing.
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