RE: FLASH: Using D7 with Flash Methods Revisited

[Harrison, Len]

Having just got our multi-swf Flash piece into Director, I guess I have some

experience here, so I'll take a shot...


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> 	--Are there any performance issues with using a multi-level

> Flash movie within Director?


Director runs Flash at about browser speed as far as I can tell. Best Flash

performance I've found is within VB or as a standalone .exe. Embedded .swf's

won't work at all. You'll need to flatten your Flash to individual sprites

on individual channels and then replace *all* telltarget commands that

target _levelN with FSCommands across *all* keyframes they appear in. I

opted to forego this joy and use the Flash .ocx inside Director. This will

crash Director if you go to a frame that doesn't contain the .ocx after it

has been initialized, so you set the size of the .ocx to 0,0 and park it in

a corner.



> 	--Does Director recognize Flash symbols across cast members?


No.


> 	--If you were to recreate parts of a Flash piece in Director,

> can Flash movie sprites Tell Target other Flash movie sprites?


No. Use Lingo


> 	--How could you best park an entire Flash movie within a

> Director shell? Move it offstage?


I send it to a blank frame just as I would in Flash proper. This can be done

within Flash or by Director.


> 	--What might break when trying to use an existing Flash movie

> within Director?


Any attempt to use layers. Everything else seems to work ok.




> 

> Curtis


len


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