Comments on: MAX 2005 Breezo and source files ‘Integrating Rich Flash Content into Flex Applications’

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:18:38 +0000

For those encountering securityError #2047 so far as I can telll, this is the new flashPlayer 8 sandbox. However, whereas fp8 allows you to configure access to the local file system, fp8.5 currently just blocks it. If you run the html file on localhost this is not a problem. To automate this in flexbuilder, select Run from the Run menu, uncheck Use Defaults, and set Run to a URL beginning http://localhost. Obviously, you have to develop in a folder your local web server has access to.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:20:32 +0000

Waldo,
I’ve tried to run the sample code and, being unfamiliar with how Flex uses SWF files, I’m not sure why I am getting the following error:

SecurityError: Error #2047: Security sandbox violation: ‘content’: ‘file:///C:/Flex/WaldoSWF/bin/swf_animation.swf’ may not access ‘file:///C:/Flex/WaldoSWF/bin/drop_shadow_monkey.swf’.

I presume this is an obvious configuration issue – I am just not sure what it is. Any suggestions?

By: thomasglyn

thomasglyn — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:25:03 +0000

Hi Waldo,
Thanks for your presentation. It’s helped a lot!
My intrests are focused on coding AS3 with Flexbuilder to make Flash games. And I would like to be able to control the animations of Movieclips that I embed via AS3, perhaps similar to what you did using MXML.
Its great that we can embed assets during compile time via code and associate them with a class.
However, when i embed an SWF it automatically becomes assiociated with the Sprite Class that doesnt have a timeline and cant have any properites assigned to any movieclips inside it(ie. instance names on the movieclips) . And also, I’ve unsuccessifully tried to find a way to embed an SWF animation(that has a timeline more than 1 frame) using AS3 and not using MXML. I noticed that you did that with MXML in your source files (1_swf_animation).
Could you give me any hints on how to embed a SWF Animation(with a timeline) with AS3 and also how to use AS3 to control an embedded SWF? Is there anyway we can convert the embedded SWF to a MovieClip instead of just a Sprite?

Here’s a section from Mike Chambers devnet article that mentions what i’m trying to do:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/flex2_flash.html

For example, let’s say you are working on a game that would benefit from the performance increases and productivity improvements of ActionScript 3.0 and Flash Player 8.5.

You could create all of the assets for the game in Flash 8 Professional. This would include graphics, videos, animations, etc. You could then do all of your programming in ActionScript and Flex Builder 2, and include the Flash assets in the SWF at compile time (ActionScript 3.0 has support for embedding assets and associating them with an ActionScript class).

The end result is a SWF file that contains all of the code and assets for your game, but which takes advantage of ActionScript 3.0 as well as the new Player APIs and virtual machine.

By: JabbyPanda

JabbyPanda — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:12:55 +0000

The Flex app from your presentation Pharos Reizen… Did the Flex app go online?

I entered http://www.pharosreizen.nl/ web-site, but it seems to be all ASP + HTML based….

By: Muzak

Muzak — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:39:33 +0000

In Zorn you can actually do the following:

.windows {
upSkin: Embed(source=”skins.swf#UpSkin”);
overSkin: Embed(source=”skins.swf#OverSkin”);
downSkin: Embed(source=”skins.swf#DownSkin”);
}

where UpSkin, OverSkin, DownSkin are movieclips in the library (linkage ID’s).
Doesn’t get any easier than that

By: JabbyPanda

JabbyPanda — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:11:35 +0000

By the way,

If speaking in a language of Macromedia codenames:

Zorn = Flex builder 2
Mistral = Flex enterprice services 2
Zaphod = ???

By: JabbyPanda

JabbyPanda — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:11:35 +0000

By the way,

If speaking in a language of Macromedia codenames:

Zorn = Flex builder 2
Mistral = Flex enterprice services 2
Zaphod = ???

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:10:18 +0000

Good point about visual SWFs, Zorn probably won’t be very practical for that.

Mike did post an example on Flashcoders a while back that shows not only changing colors but actual skins through the CSS (though that’s Flex 2.0 specific, so not applicable to your session ).

.windows
{
upSkin: Embed(source=”button_up.png”);
overSkin: Embed(source=”button_over.png”);
downSkin: Embed(source=”button_down.png”);
}

Really exciting feature for quick and easy skinning.

By: Waldo Smeets

Waldo Smeets — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:51:30 +0000

Hi Peter. Indeed I covered 1.5, for two reasons:

- What I discussed is a real problem with customers NOW, so I need to provide them with a solution that works now.
- The preso containeds two parts; overview of possibilities and technical implementation. In general this concept is expected to stay the same.

One last reason not to go too deep into Flash IDE + Zorn integration is the fact that the Flash IDE can not compile for AS3 yet, which makes the process more complicated untill that’s fixed.

Correct that Zorn supports AS only compilation, but that’s not going to help out with creating visual SWFs.

SWC vs CSS: if you don’t want to change shapes, only colors, CSS might be the easiest solution. However, with SWC/programmatic skinning you can go beyond that.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:56:36 +0000

wow looks like you covered a LOT of information!

Looks like you talked about Flex as its available right now, not the Zorn alpha — was just about to post to ask if you prefer SWC skinning over CSS. What I particularly like is that you can now apparently use Flex Builder 2 for compiling AS only projects so you don’t have the overhead of the Flex framework if you don’t need it and can still stay in the Eclipse framework without relying on open source alternatives.