Comments on: Controlling Flash Player 8 SWFs in Flash Player 9 SWFs

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:03:30 +0000

A quick question for you. I was trying to do exactly this, load a Flash 8 swf into a Flex app and control its playback. Looks complicated and I’m more inclined to just say, for legacy content use the “old player”. My question is, how would I control the playback of a Flash 9 swf? My main goal is to playback Camtasia swfs (presumably they will update their app to product Flash 9 swfs). If I have no edit control over the swf can I still control it in Flex if the SWF is a Flash 9 swf?

Thanks!

By: diamondtearz

diamondtearz — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:14:47 +0000

How about FlashInterface as a solution and a container in Flash 8 that would load the precreated content and communicate with it?

By: Tim G

Tim G — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:06:16 +0000

Yes do you have an example of your proxy.swf, I have over 300 swf movies I need to load in a media center build with flex, but I have not control over the movies as they are in the SWFLoader I have them in now. I think I understand what you are trying to do and sound like a possible solution for me. just looking for a little extra help :-)

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:17:22 +0000

I have the same problem importing a mediaplayer built with flash8 playing flv and mp3. I was looking for one similar in Flex to begin with but the VideoDisplay and Audio support doesn’t support all I want to do.

You have no code examples for proxy.swf and LocalConnection?

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:22:56 +0000

You cannot call functions on an AVM1Movie, including simple gotoAndPlay / stop commands. You will need to:

Update the SWF's to support a LocalConnection so Flex can tell it to stop
Have Flex send those SWF's messages to stop when it navigates to a new page