Re: FLASH 8 (SWF) in AW?

There are certain features of Flash 8 that don't work with the Flash asset
xtra so it fails silently if you use any of those features. I know some
folks that have kept the Flash file very simple and able to load within the
Authorware piece. Other files just refuse to play. You have a couple of
choices. Use Flash 8 to publish to Flash 6 format which will strip out
whatever you use that's not compatible or use the ActiveX xtra to load the
swf movie into a Flash ActiveX control. One downside to that is the ActiveX
control cannot be made transparent, it's alwasy opaque and always square.
You also have to change your Flash file to use the FSCommand method of
communicating events to Authorware.

HTH,
====================
Mike Baker
Adobe Community Expert
mike-baker@cox.net

"Jacks007" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:fqpkt3$fjn$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi All,
>  I've been creating SWF's in Flash v6 (I think it was v6) and they worked
fine
> in AW 7.  I now have Studio 8 and can't get them to open in AW7 without
saving
> as the earlier version.  Does anyone know why it does not work or if AW
needs
> an update to get the Flash 8's to work in AW as a Version 8 SWF?:confused;
>

Authorware is old. EOD'd, in fact now.
It's native support only officially handles Flash 6. Flash 7 usually 
works fine if nothing 'fancy' (i.e. new components) has been added to 
the SWF. Flash 8 and above, however, pretty much aren't going to work at 
all in Authorware *using the native sprite*.

However, if you add the Shockwave Flash ActiveX control to your 
flowline, that uses the same control as IE does. So as long as your user 
has the Flash IE player on their machine, you can load whatever SWF 
version that player supports.

Working with the ActiveX control is a bit more tricky. Check the ActiveX 
example in your Authorware 7\ShowMe directory for an example...

The biggest downside to the ActiveX approach is those SWFs are 'always 
on top'. Makes for good playback but you can't layer anything on top of 
those SWFs unfortunately (except maybe other ActiveX controls, which 
causes lots of flickering).
HTH
Erik

Jacks007 wrote:
> Hi All,
>  I've been creating SWF's in Flash v6 (I think it was v6) and they worked
fine 
> in AW 7.  I now have Studio 8 and can't get them to open in AW7 without
saving 
> as the earlier version.  Does anyone know why it does not work or if AW
needs 
> an update to get the Flash 8's to work in AW as a Version 8
SWF?:confused;

Hi All,
 I've been creating SWF's in Flash v6 (I think it was v6) and they worked fine 
in AW 7.  I now have Studio 8 and can't get them to open in AW7 without saving 
as the earlier version.  Does anyone know why it does not work or if AW needs 
an update to get the Flash 8's to work in AW as a Version 8 SWF?:confused;

Many thanks to both Eric and Mike, I will try all your suggestions to see which
suits me best.  I think I really need AW v8!