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Re: FLASH 8 (SWF) in AW?

Subject: Re: FLASH 8 (SWF) in AW?
From: "Erik L."
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:29:15 -0500
Newsgroups: macromedia.authorware


Authorware is old. EOD'd, in fact now.
It's native support only officially handles Flash 6. Flash 7 usually works fine if nothing 'fancy' (i.e. new components) has been added to the SWF. Flash 8 and above, however, pretty much aren't going to work at all in Authorware *using the native sprite*.

However, if you add the Shockwave Flash ActiveX control to your flowline, that uses the same control as IE does. So as long as your user has the Flash IE player on their machine, you can load whatever SWF version that player supports.

Working with the ActiveX control is a bit more tricky. Check the ActiveX example in your Authorware 7\ShowMe directory for an example...

The biggest downside to the ActiveX approach is those SWFs are 'always on top'. Makes for good playback but you can't layer anything on top of those SWFs unfortunately (except maybe other ActiveX controls, which causes lots of flickering).
HTH
Erik

Jacks007 wrote:
Hi All,
I've been creating SWF's in Flash v6 (I think it was v6) and they worked fine in AW 7. I now have Studio 8 and can't get them to open in AW7 without saving as the earlier version. Does anyone know why it does not work or if AW needs an update to get the Flash 8's to work in AW as a Version 8 SWF?:confused;


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