Re: FLASH: Mixing Flash 3 with Flash 4

[John Dowdell]

At 10:56 AM 7/12/99, Sienna wrote:

> I'm not taking an F3 swf file and trying to finish it in 4; rather,

> i'm going to stop making the rest of the movies in 3 and use 4.

>  Will the plug-ins for each type in the same website work?


You can successfully deliver to the exact same Flash 3 Players by saving

out as SWF3 files from the Flash 4 authoring tool.


This will remove any Flash4-specific features used in the file... you won't

be able to use MP3-style compression on long sounds, for instance... so

you're guaranteed that someone with an older player will see the same as

someone in a newer player.


(Even if you have a current Flash 4 Player in your own browser, if you save

out from F4 as a SWF3 file you'll see the same thing as someone with a

Flash 3 Player would. It's only when you save out as a SWF4 file that

you'll get the newer features.)


jd






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