RE: Flash Player Java Edition Bugs?

[Slavik Lozben]

Have you tried using the FlashApi classes. It sounds like you need to use

the api classes  instead of the Applet classes.


-- Slavik


> -----Original Message-----

>

From: ownershocker [dot] com [ownershocker [dot] com]On">mailto:ownershocker [dot] com]On Behalf Of Paul F.

> Snively

> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 1998 10:09 AM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Flash Player Java Edition Bugs?

>

>

> Hi folks!

>

> I'm a software developer attempting to integrate the Flash Player Java

> Edition into my Java code. In order to do this I needed an

> implementation of

> the AppletContext and AppletStub interfaces, which I got from Gamelan. I

> modified the code slightly to accomplish a few goals:

>

> 1) Extends Panel rather than Frame, because I want my movies to live in a

> window instead of being one.

> 2) Removed Frame-specific code.

> 3) Added property getters and setters, no-argument constructor, and

> addActionListener/removeActionListener methods, and wrote

> URLEditor.java and

> FlashPlayerBeanInfo to make my wrapper a JavaBean for the sake of

> (hopefully) easy integration into JavaBean editors such as Visual

> Cafe. Also

> attempted to add serialization/deserialization support, but Macromedia's

> applet isn't serializable.

> 4) Implemented showDocument(URL url) method, which attempts to

> take a "URL"

> of the form "ActionEvent:ID=ACTION_PERFORMED&Command=whatever"

> and construct

> the appropriate ActionEvent from it, sending it to all registered

> ActionListeners. The point here is that the Flash author should be able to

> embed these special URL's in their Flash movies and trigger arbitrary Java

> code in the embedding software this way, using the standard ActionEvent

> "command" mechanism to select which action to take.

>

> Now here's the kicker:

>

> When I create the appropriate manifest file and use jar to create my

> FlashPlayer.jar, the resulting jar loads into BeanBox fine, and

> if I select

> it from the palette and click in the designer window, up comes a Flash

> movie--but so far, the only movie that I've pointed my player to that's

> played successfully is Macromedia's own

> <http://www.macromedia.com/uber.swf>! If I edit my code so that

> the default

> movie is anything else, the player typically throws a

> NullPointerException,

> although the exact misbehavior seems to have some randomness.

>

> I'm including FlashPlayer.java, URLEditor.java, and

> FlashPlayerBeanInfo.java

> in the hopes that some other Java programmer out there--preferably whoever

> wrote Macromedia's applet!--will be able to lend a hand in tracking down

> this bug. This is having a serious impact on me, as a client has the

> expectation that their standalone Java program will play Flash movies!

>

> Many thanks,

> Paul Snively

>

<psnivelyrdoor [dot] com (mailto:psnivelyrdoor [dot] com)>

>



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