Flash Resource for Flex Code

[Tintin <19...@googlemail.com>]

Hello

I'll start at the end and work back. Bare with me! I want to create a .swf
file, to place in a web page, which will comprise an HSlider and above it an
area to display a short image sequence. As the user drags the HSlider from
left to right the image sequence will display the appropriate frame allowing
the user to effectively scrub the movie.

I have tried many, many times to do this using an FLV file and the Flash
Player web plug-in just doesn't interpret the 'seek()' method properly.

This time I thought I would try a different approach. I want my Flex
developed swf to be generic so that I can pass it a parameter defining the
movie which I want it to play and have it load this movie and allow the user
to interact with it. For the movie I want to somehow import an image
sequence into Flash Professional and save this as a resource which my
generic Slider can load and display.

Would anyone be able to suggest if this is possible and how I might go about
it. Alternatively you may have an alternative suggestion. The main thing is
to have a single UI able to load and display any prepared movie resource.

Thank you.

Chris



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Re: Flash Resource for Flex Code

[Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>]

I think I understand.  The only reason I'm suggesting viewstack or
horizontal list is because then you could create your movie.swf/swcs with
Flex instead of Flash Pro which might make it easier to automatically
generate.

-Alex

On 1/16/14 1:13 AM, "Tintin" <19...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>Morning Alex
>
>An interesting suggestion you propose. I will look into the use of
>viewstacks.
>
>My movie.swf/.swc will simply contain the 25 sequential images within a
>movieClip in the library. No code, nothing else. It is only to act as a
>container for the images so that I can have many different movie.swf files
>within a folder on my website which my single Flex written .swf can load
>and
>play. This way I can use my Flex written .swf many times within my
>website,
>each time loading in a different movie.swf depending on parameters passed
>from the HTML to the flex.swf file.
>
>I hope you see my thought here.
>
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Re: Flash Resource for Flex Code

[Tintin <19...@googlemail.com>]

Morning Alex

An interesting suggestion you propose. I will look into the use of
viewstacks.

My movie.swf/.swc will simply contain the 25 sequential images within a
movieClip in the library. No code, nothing else. It is only to act as a
container for the images so that I can have many different movie.swf files
within a folder on my website which my single Flex written .swf can load and
play. This way I can use my Flex written .swf many times within my website,
each time loading in a different movie.swf depending on parameters passed
from the HTML to the flex.swf file.

I hope you see my thought here.



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Re: Flash Resource for Flex Code

[Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>]

Not sure what is in your movie.swc.  But in Flex, you could simply embed
25 frames and stick them into a viewstack and switch the current index
based on the slider.

On 1/15/14 12:46 AM, "Tintin" <19...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>I have imported 25 sequenced frames into a movieClip and published that
>swf,
>let's call it movie.swf. In flex I have added a SWFLoader and intend to
>try
>and load movie.swf and then, using the position of a HSlider go to the
>appropriate frame either of the movieClip in the movie.swf Library or of
>the
>main timeline. I have also published movie.swc to understand the
>differences.
>
>Any advice welcome.
>
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Re: Flash Resource for Flex Code

[Tintin <19...@googlemail.com>]

I have imported 25 sequenced frames into a movieClip and published that swf,
let's call it movie.swf. In flex I have added a SWFLoader and intend to try
and load movie.swf and then, using the position of a HSlider go to the
appropriate frame either of the movieClip in the movie.swf Library or of the
main timeline. I have also published movie.swc to understand the
differences.

Any advice welcome.



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Re: Flash Resource for Flex Code

[Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>]

IMO, there is a tradeoff.  A multi-frame SWF is a bit tricky to generate
automatically/programatically.  But if you really don't need the frame
sequencing aspects of Flash (where you can keep some assets on screen for
many frames while others come and go), then you could choose to
programatically change the screen instead and just package up 25 embedded
images in a SWF and have code that switches between them.

-Alex

On 1/14/14 12:59 AM, "Tintin" <19...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>Hello Alex
>
>I do intend to use a sequence of still images but they are frames from an
>animated sequence. We create 3D animated sequences of mechanisms operating
>and we want users to be able to interact with the mechanism to understand
>how it works. Imagine a series of 3 gears of different sizes meshing
>together. We animated them turning, produce say a 25 frame image sequence
>which we eventually want the user to be able to drag the HSlider and
>effectively operate the gears.
>
>I want to create individual files which bundle up all of their frames, so
>the website doesn't have many folders containing many images, into a neat
>package which my swf can reference in to display. I thought that I could
>somehow create a movieClip containing the image sequence, save the .fla or
>.swf file and reference this into my Slider swf.
>
>Thanks for your suggestion.
>
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Re: Flash Resource for Flex Code

[Tintin <19...@googlemail.com>]

Hello Alex

I do intend to use a sequence of still images but they are frames from an
animated sequence. We create 3D animated sequences of mechanisms operating
and we want users to be able to interact with the mechanism to understand
how it works. Imagine a series of 3 gears of different sizes meshing
together. We animated them turning, produce say a 25 frame image sequence
which we eventually want the user to be able to drag the HSlider and
effectively operate the gears.

I want to create individual files which bundle up all of their frames, so
the website doesn't have many folders containing many images, into a neat
package which my swf can reference in to display. I thought that I could
somehow create a movieClip containing the image sequence, save the .fla or
.swf file and reference this into my Slider swf.

Thanks for your suggestion.



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Re: Flash Resource for Flex Code

[Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>]

If these are "still" images (no animation, no video), why not just make a
HorizontalList full of images?  Then you wouldn't need Flash Pro.

-Alex

On 1/13/14 12:38 PM, "Tintin" <19...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>Hello
>
>I'll start at the end and work back. Bare with me! I want to create a .swf
>file, to place in a web page, which will comprise an HSlider and above it
>an
>area to display a short image sequence. As the user drags the HSlider from
>left to right the image sequence will display the appropriate frame
>allowing
>the user to effectively scrub the movie.
>
>I have tried many, many times to do this using an FLV file and the Flash
>Player web plug-in just doesn't interpret the 'seek()' method properly.
>
>This time I thought I would try a different approach. I want my Flex
>developed swf to be generic so that I can pass it a parameter defining the
>movie which I want it to play and have it load this movie and allow the
>user
>to interact with it. For the movie I want to somehow import an image
>sequence into Flash Professional and save this as a resource which my
>generic Slider can load and display.
>
>Would anyone be able to suggest if this is possible and how I might go
>about
>it. Alternatively you may have an alternative suggestion. The main thing
>is
>to have a single UI able to load and display any prepared movie resource.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Chris
>
>
>
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