Re: FLASH: Saving FLASH 4 files as FLASH 3

[John Dowdell]

At 12:11 PM 8/13/99, Tom Hedstrom wrote:

> but the flash 3 player wont be able to play back these files

> if you use MP3 compression, right?


That's right. Older players will ignore things in the file they don't

understand. It's like HTML and the browsers that way.


If one of your customers says "Hey, I can't hear sound in your Flash 4

file!" then the usual cause is that they have a Flash 3 Player.



Recap:


If you're in Flash 4, then consider whether a particular site would benefit

from larger installed base, or larger feature set. This could help

determine whether you save out in SWF3 or SWF4 format. You can always test

a SWF3 file in a Flash 4 Player, because modern features will already have

been stripped out.


Most of us will likely go right to the Flash 4 feature set, because the

Flash 4 Player is so fast to download and install. If you have a

particularly conservative audience then you might wish to defer on adding

new features for a bit. Depends on who you're talking to out there.


There's a JavaScript routine available for determining player version...

search Flash technotes with keyword "Flash 4". (You can also attempt to set

variables in the first frame and attempt to branch if you can retrieve

their value... a Flash 3 Player will ignore variables and so will continue

playing the original movie.)



For other new stuff, please consider:


--  Want to add pause/rewind/play? Take advantage of the Shockwave 7.02

Remote Control... just change your HTML so that the swTarget attribute has

a value of TRUE.


--  Want people to see your work offline? Again, the Shockwave 7.02 Remote

Control can help... set the saveable attribute to TRUE.


--  Please make sure your Flash work is listed in the Shockwave Search

Engine... even in this first week there have been over a hundred thousand

hits generated by this new referral service.


--  If you'll be using these new features, then consider asking your

visitors to tell their friends about your site... they can do so by

clicking the "Send" button in the Shockwave Remote Control.


More info on all these new abilities:

http://www.shockwave.com/         (for consumers)

http://www.shockwave.com/devroom  (for developers)



jd







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