• Registered: 2008-03-22
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Topic: Embedded shockwave to SWF?

Admittedly, I have zero experience coding with flash and have never created a SWF. Chumby has motivated me to want to learn though, as there are a few embedded shockwave objects that I'd like to see turned into widgets. I have some searching, though probably not enough, but I am looking for a simple way (if it exists) to turn an embedded shockwave object into a SWF. If anyone could even so much as point me in the right direction, taking my level of flash knowledge into account, I'd greatly appreciate it!

  • jvc
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Re: Embedded shockwave to SWF?

different plugin so its just not doable

  • Duane
  • Duane
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Re: Embedded shockwave to SWF?

"Shockwave" is a totally different technology, which requires a different player and a different set of development tools.

As far as I know, Adobe does not license a Shockwave player for embedded use - indeed, they have yet to create a native player for Intel-based Macs, which would seem to imply that this technology isn't getting much attention even within Adobe.

Macromedia confused the issue a long time ago when they originally referred to Flash as "Shockwave Flash", and the mimetype for Flash files still contains the word "shockwave", but they're not really all that related.

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  • Registered: 2008-03-22
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Re: Embedded shockwave to SWF?

Thanks for the replies and explanation of the differences between flash and shockwave too. I'll just hope that someone else with a lot more flash knowledge might want to create a widget with the same content I am interested in (Ustream.tv) at some point.