Re: Flash 3 Java Export

[John Dowdell]

At 9:12 AM 6/29/98, Matthew Phillips wrote:

>Having just purchased Flash 3 online, I was wondering

>if there is a Flash 3-to-Java exporter?


There is no Flash to Java export. Director can export its interactive work

to Java Classes, but Flash relies on a Flash Java Player to play its native

SWF files

instead.


There are currently Flash 3 players as Netscape plugins on various

platforms, and for ActiveX Controls, and for the standalone Projectors on

various platforms. The Flash Java Player does not yet support transparency

and other new features in the Flash 3 file format, however -- some of these

new abilities are more difficult to support in the various Java Virtual

Machines than they are in full native code.


In the meantime, export from Flash 3 in SWF 2.0 format if you'll be

delivering to alternate engines such as the Flash Java Player, the Flash

Asset Xtra in Director, WebTV, etc. The various alternate engines will each

go through their own development cycle, but you can always feed them

multimedia in a form they'll understand, today.


(Aftershock 2.0 is the current version. It works with Flash 3 files and

Director 6.5 files. It makes it easy to use the Flash Java Player with SWF

2.0 files.)


Summary: Flash plays back SWF 2.0 files through the Flash Java Player.

Director exports its movies as Java classes. The first wave of Flash 3

players includes Netscape plugins, Projectors, and the ActiveX Control;

save in SWF 2.0 format if you'll be playing back in other engines right

now.


jd




John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US


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