Re: FLASH: Director with Flash 4 Question

[John Dowdell]

Version stuff here: Flash 4 work will play in the Director 7.02 authoring

application and its Projectors. It will also play in the Shockwave 7.02

Player, which is now in beta.


Rephrased: If authoring in D702, and delivering to browsers, then please be

sure to consider whether you'll be using SW700 or SW702 features. Different

sites will migrate to different versions at different times.


Context: Director 7 came out when Flash 3 was available, but before Flash 4

did. That's why Director 7.00 and Shockwave 7.00 support SWF3 files.

Support for SWF4 was added in the D702 updater. SW702 is now in developer

beta, and will be released simultaneously with the upcoming ShockMachine

and the new shockwave.com site.

   (For more info on all of this, please see

http://www.shockwave.com/devroom/ .)



Taking a jump out from the specific to the general, if you'll be putting a

Flash file inside Shockwave and want to use streaming MP3-style audio, then

use SWA... it's been around for 'way longer than anyone has heard of

".MP3", and it supports cuepoints, progress testing, audio-blending, and

more.


Rephrased, if you'll be creating Flash files for use in Shockwave, then

they're not subject to the same constraints as browser-based delivery. You

can pass messages between the two easily. It's easy to integrate various

media sources. You have the full scripting language to back it up. Creating

SWFs for browsers can be slightly more constraining than creating SWFs for

Shockwave.



Summary: Shockwave 7.02 will be the first version arriving after Flash 4 is

finalized. If you're creating Flash-for-Shockwave, then please consider the

balance between the larger installed base, and the larger feature set,

thanks.


jd






John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US

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