Re: FLASH: Reminder: Teach your old SWF new tricks!

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Hi JD,


I was quoting from and referring to the devguide.pdf. A nice short doc

that has all anyone needs to know and that if read would avoid about 99%

of the latest posts on the SHOCKER-L list, you know the ones about the

remote popping up...

I don't think Flashers have been trying the new remote features, or else

unlike the director guys they tend to read the docs ;), because this

hasn't come up on the list yet.

Anyway a quick 1-2-3 on how to make your flash movie controllable and

saveable with the remote. This is a condensed and abridged version taken

from the devguide and refers only to Flash movies.

Step 1 - Changes in the production phase :

Add a one frame blank layer on your first scene. Give it the label

'remoteSavable' , without the quotes of course. This will tell the

remote that your movie can be saved. If you don't want it to be saveable

don't add this label.

Use this same layer/frame to set these two variables 'movieAboutInfo'

and 'movieCopyrightInfo' set these to whatever you want or need. This

information will then appear in the remote.


Step 2 - Changes in the html :

This is a two step process because you have to make changes to the

object and embed sections.

For the object tag we have a new parameter that is a bit different in

that it has more than one possible sub value. The parameter is

<PARAM NAME=swRemote VALUE="swTarget='true' swPicon='picon.bmp'

swPackage='package.txt' swTitle='Your Movies Title'">

I didn't use all possible sub values in the above example as it's just

to show how it can be used. The main sub value is swTarget, in Flash the

default is False so if you don't use the swRemote param your movie will

behave like it did before, i.e. not saveable and not controllable by the

remote.

Changes to the embed tag are very similar to the above so we would have

something like this :

swRemote="swTarget='true' swPicon='picon.bmp'...."

One thing to notice in both cases is the enclosing " and the use of '.

If you only want your movie to be controllable under the remote then

don't use the remoteSavable label and use swTarget='true'. This will

cause the remote to popup when your movie starts.

If you want your movie saveable the use the remoteSavable label and

please read the devguide to understand proper usage of the other sub

values of the swTarget key.

In fact before trying this out read this doc as it also explains in

detail other stuff like the proper width and height size for your movie

if you want it to play  in the ShockMachine.

<Tip> If you trying this and it does not work check that you used the

label 'remoteSavable' and not 'remoteSaveable' in your movie. I lost

nearly two days with this one 'error'.</Tip>


Nigel



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