swf won't load into movie

RichardHC · Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:49 am

I was using Pano2QT and loading the movies into a Main Movie. All worked perfectly. I am using CS3 version 9 for the main movie.
I downloaded the Pano2VR Beta 5a, re-did the old movies into new movies. They work fine by themselves, but when I substituted the revised movies for the old ones in my project they would not load!!!!

After doing a bit of research on the forum and the wiki I realized I had to output the new files as Flash 8 to be able to get them to load. So I tried that and they do load but don't seem to be as smooth as Flash9. Flash 9 can also use AS2 and I am wondering if you could set up a communication bridge in the swf file so the movie could load using AS2 but still have the benefits of AS3 rendering in the new pano. Perhaps something like
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2 ... easie.html?

Richard

Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:27 pm

Earlier someone mentioned that in movies created with Flash CS3, that Panoramas created with flash 9 viewer needed to have AS 3 only. Action Script 2 has issues with the Flash 9 viewer ?

Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:32 am

The container needs to be of the same or higher version so this would not work. You have to switch to CS3 if you want to load Flash 8 movies.

RichardHC · Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:41 am

The container needs to be of the same or higher version so this would not work. You have to switch to CS3 if you want to load Flash 8 movies.

The problem is with Actionscript - I AM using CS3 but CS3 can program in either Actionscript2 or Actionscript3.

The main movie that I want to load into is a CS3 movie but uses Actionscript2. My main movie uses some 2000 buttons with AS2 code. AS2 and AS3 use entirely different codes for even the simplest things - (very inconsiderate on the part of Adobe).

So the question is, can a CS3 movie that has Actionscript 2 code and using the Flash9 standalone player load one of the Pano2VR 2 movies if you use the export Flash 9 settings?

The answer is NO - because the Pano2VR 2 movies use Actionscript 3 and Actionscript 2 does not communicate directly with Actionscript 3.

There may be an answer to this - a "bridge" code - as mentioned in my previous posting. But I am not at all capable in Actionscript 3 and don't know how to set up and use such a bridge.

Another alternative I am going to try is to open the Pano2VR 2 movie in it's own standalone player exe file as a separate window. But this adds a lot to the file size.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this working?