Re: FLASH: Flash 5 actions not backward compatible???

[John Dowdell]

I'm not sure of the question... there's a statement that some complex

scripting is acting differently when exported to SWF4.


Yes, there's much less scripting available in SWF4. And yes, the F5

authoring environment converts to that material. But no, sorry, I can't

tell what's different there.


The one-or-all tests can help though... you can test that your program is

functioning normally by taking some new very simple test files of

individual commands, and confirm that these work for you as expected on

that end. The next step would be to combine these commands into specific

functions, and test that each does as you expect. Then you can assembled

groups of your complex functions together until you find where the

difference occurs.


Of course it's faster to test in your target environment as you go along,

rather than when you're "finished". In this case it might even be simpler

to just specify the F5 Player, because we should be close to three million

fresh installs each and every day now.


jd





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