Revolution and .swf

Brian Yennie briany at qldlearning.com
Mon Apr 18 05:24:17 EDT 2005


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?

- Brian

> I gotta admit, I still don't get this.
>
> Flash is perhaps the preeminent 2D animation file format; probably
> overtaking Director?
>
> Not "getting" Flash or providing some native support for it positively
> cripples Rev as a multimedia scripting environment.
>
> And I don't even USE Flash (beyond trying to get together a little 
> handout
> on doing simple animation in it for my class).
>
> I recently revisited the Animation Builder.  Didn't really suck all 
> that
> much, did it? No Flash, certainly, but without native support for 
> Flash,
> what is the simple DreamCard developer wishing to include animation to 
> do?
>
> And now they don't even have that (the Animation Builder, that is)...
>
> Judy
>
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Yonnys Pablo Martin Olivera wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>       I am beginning to program in revolution, but previously I had 
>> had
>> experience in Flash of Macromedia and I would like to know if somebody
>> could help on that relationship is between Revolution and the files 
>> .swf
>> and if some form exists of linking them.
>
>
>
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