Revolution and .swf

Judy Perry jperryl at ecs.fullerton.edu
Mon Apr 18 14:17:22 EDT 2005


Brian,

Well, (a) that sucks, and (b) it really sucks.  But at least it's a more
understandable problem ;-)  One which points all the more directly at the
need for a new, improved animation builder.

(Pretty please?)

Judy

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Brian Yennie wrote:

> Judy,
>
> I believe one problem is that there is no public API for embedded Flash
> support. Last I checked, it requires paying a hefty license to
> Macromedia for a development kit. Implementing from scratch is a huge
> task also- notice that they aren't really any 3rd party Flash Players
> (even Quicktime's support is always a little behind the curve).
>
> FWIW. I haven't looked into this in a while.
>
> The only reasonable way I know of to support Flash would be to offer up
> support for browser plug-ins.
>
> Does anyone know of a dev environment that _does_ include embedded
> Flash playback in a desktop app?
>



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