External SWF controll?

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patrickjansen
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External SWF controll?

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Hi, I got a customer inquiry asking if specific commercial flash animations I created ( see here ) can be loaded and set from within the Resolume software.

So my question: is it possible to push 'data' to externally loades SWF file (specifically, an array continaing multiple "string" values which is then used by a text animation)? I'd like to know what options Resolume offers to implement and access external SWF files.

Anybody any documentation about that?
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Joris
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Re: External SWF controll?

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Yes, this is possible. You can find documentation on it in the Flash chapter of the manual. http://resolume.com/avenue/manual/

Let us know if you have further questions!

Joris

patrickjansen
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Re: External SWF controll?

Post by patrickjansen »

Thank you for your feedback.
I noticed a few things, first the

import resolumeCom.*;
import resolumeCom.parameters.*;
import resolumeCom.events.*;

Basically I'd need these classes to successfully export/publish a .swf file. I'm currently only inquiring because of a customer inquiry so don't have these classes available right now. Minor detail but still.

Besides that, it's really unclear about how to implement Resolute interface to visual .swf result. Basically I develop "Components" which are "MovieClips with parameters". The documentation example

var showBG:BooleanParameter = resolume.addBooleanParameter("Background", true);

doesn't really explain how the back & forth workings between the Resolute authoring environment and the displayed .swf animation works. To elaborate, the documentation for example for instance doesn't say anything about Array() or Color() parameters/variables which also would need to be customizable in my animations.

Do you happen to know if Resolute has a tech/dev staff we can contact to get details sorted out?
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Joris
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Re: External SWF controll?

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Hey Patrick

Sure, you can contact me directly at supprt[at]resolume[dot]com.

Joris

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