[swfmill] Problems importing SWF's

[Walton, Lynn]

Rodolfo, 

Please let us know if Alex suggestion about turning off all
movie-clip-defined effects solved your problem.   We also found turning
off movie-clip defined effects necessary. 

One other idea that might help if that didn't do it is to give your clip
an id (FOO in example below) and then add a <place> tag referring to
that id:

<movie width="1024" height="768" framerate="12" version="8">
  <frame>
    <clip id="FOO" import="classes.swf"/>
    <library>
      <clip id="menu" import="lib/menu_item.swf"/>
      <clip id="feed" import="lib/feed_body.swf"/>
    </library>
    <place id="FOO" depth="0" />
  </frame>
</movie>

We sometimes do it like that.  Hope this helps,

Lynn



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> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:34:07 -0500
> From: Alex H <swfmill at avbrand.com>
> Subject: Re: [swfmill] Problems importing SWF's
> To: swfmill at osflash.org
> Message-ID: <496F495F.3060106 at avbrand.com>
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> 
> Hi Rodolfo,
> 
> I've seen exactly the problem you are describing for some time.
> 
> All I can tell you right now is that to fix it, you must shut off all 
> movieclip-defined effects (blur, drop shadow, etc) and then it will
work 
> better with SWFMILL.
> 
> Cheers,
> -alex




>> Rodolfo Lopez @ nebular streams wrote:
>> Hi! First of all, congratulations to the SWFMILL team for such a 
>> promising tool. You guys really rock!
>>
>> I'm having problems when trying to create an assets library using 
>> SWFMILL. Version: subversion trunk, 0.2.12.6, freshly compiled. Also 
>> same problem with 0.2.12.0.
>>
>> The problem is, the imported SWF's get broken. I've done a very
simple 
>> test, just importing a couple clips:
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>> <movie width="1024" height="768" framerate="12" version="8">
>>         <frame>
>>                 <clip import="classes.swf"/>
>>                 <library>
>> <clip id="menu" import="lib/menu_item.swf"/>
>> <clip id="feed" import="lib/feed_body.swf"/>
>> </library>
>> <call object="stub" method="main"/>
>> </frame>
>> </movie>
>> ---------------------------------------
>>
>> The symbols are imported into the library, but some symbols inside 
>> them are placed onto the stage. Let me explain: The clip 
>> "menu_item.swf" is a very simple clip, with a (child) movieclip as 
>> background, and the option text. What happens is, its child clip (the

>> item background) is placed onto the stage, even though it shouldn't. 
>> When I do an AttachMovie, the menuitem is attached, but WITHOUT the 
>> background. Looking at the flash console output, I see these warnings

>> (maytbe not related to the problem) just before the method "main" is 
>> executed:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Warning: Failed to place object at depth 1.
>> Warning: Failed to place object at depth 1.
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Same problem with the other clip.
>>
>> I've decompiled the generated SWF with a SWF extraction tool, and I 
>> see that the child clip is NOT present in the parent item, but it IS 
>> in the library. In the parent, in the place where the clip should be,

>> I see a "yellow anchor", and Flash complains about the child clip 
>> belonging to a shared library, when I try to open it.
>>
>> So... can anybody please give me general guidelines on how to import 
>> SWF's and its limitations? Should it work flawlessly? maybe version 
>> problems? I'm working with everything set to Flash 8. I have been 
>> reading this maillist and nobody complains about a similar problem,
so 
>> maybe it's just my fault. 
>>
>> Also, the "call object" thing seem not to be working. Is it 
>> neccessary? or I can safely use the MTASC -main thing? that one
works!
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Please dont hesitate in asking for more information. I'd be more than

>> grateful with anybody helping me out to solve this problem
>>
>>
>> rodolfo lopez pintor
>> nebular streams
>> _nebular at nebular.tv_ <mailto:nebular at nebular.tv>


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