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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Can DBP load a Flash file?

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Solidz Snake
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Posted: 9th May 2003 23:58
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Yup, the title said it all.

Can DBP load a .swf format file? I wanna make it for my mini game's intro.

No no, i dun wanna use 3Ds Max or Maya, because its a 2D game.
No no, i dun wanna code the intro, because i'm a lazy bum rite now, and i just wanna have fun with my Flash s/w.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 10th May 2003 00:01
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You could load it.

But unless you want to write a Flash player in DB, you won't be able to do much with it.

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Posted: 10th May 2003 00:10 Edited at: 10th May 2003 00:13
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Isn't there a way to convert flash files to .AVI movies? If you could do that, then you wouldn't need to load flash, just load the AVI as you would any other animation.

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Hmm...from http://www.download.com, it looks like there are 11 different utilities pulled up for a search of "flash avi convert". Here's one: http://download.com.com/3000-2194-10124229.html?tag=lst-0-1. I don't know anything about it, but I hope something works for you.
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Solidz Snake
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Posted: 10th May 2003 00:13
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err, i dun understand that bit. U mean i have to write a Flash player to play the .swf file? (damn ... )

so if it can just load it, wats the code?

(i'm doing my Flash animation now, just wanna get a quick code to remember for later)

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Solidz Snake
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Posted: 10th May 2003 00:16
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Thankz Roswell, I'm downloading it now.

Just wondering about the code to directly load the Flash file itself in DBP.

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What rich said was some kinda joke... you CAN load it with "open to read" (DoH), but if you don't know how to process the information inside the swf file manually, you cant use this to any good...

The command for loading animation (avi) is load animation... (DoH)


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DBP is can make anykind of game of app, just like the box says. Granted you may need to learn c++ and program a dll for DBP to use, because the native command set doesn't have everything you need. But, hey your young and you have the rest of your life to work it out right? anything is possible with DBP (and a little help from a dll.)

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Posted: 10th May 2003 03:33
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One advantage of flash files is the ability to interact with them so converting it to an AVI might not be the best idea if you have a "Skip Intro" button like most Flash animations do.

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Posted: 10th May 2003 03:44
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Cyborg: wat do u mean 'open to read'? yes, i dun know much about it, just know on making animations in it. Care just to write up on how do i process it?

CTP: LOL! That aint really my real age! and yeah, i got the rest of me life to work it out, but once in a while, asking for help is one way to reach for it.

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Posted: 10th May 2003 04:01 Edited at: 10th May 2003 04:04
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i think there may be a way to get a JAVA Applet work in DBpro it will be very tricky.

[edit:if you want it to play in a new windows it very do a bull]

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Posted: 10th May 2003 05:01
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Quote: "DBP is can make anykind of game of app, just like the box says. Granted you may need to learn c++ and program a dll for DBP to use, because the native command set doesn't have everything you need. But, hey your young and you have the rest of your life to work it out right? anything is possible with DBP (and a little help from a dll.)
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But we're not bitter eh CTP?

I can't really imagine any BASIC language directly supporting an interactive picture format, you may aswell write your game in flash if your going to do that, and I know which system yields better results.

For the specific problem to hand here, i'd personally convert the animation to an .avi at 100% quality un-compressed, and then convert it to .mpg.

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Posted: 10th May 2003 05:07
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natively ... no it doesn't utilise .swf flash movies.
however as DarkBasic Pro can adapt to whatever you put in it, you'd have to get ahold of a current version of the swf format - use that to load and translate basically what you see, however as it is all just simply vectored graphics, javascript functions ... as long as what you were using was just native Flash and not images and such as well - then it'd be a case of making a vector movie loader and a javascript function parser

be hard as hell, and not entirely sure it'd be 100% worth it, but would certainly be something interesting to say that you've done and no one else has

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Posted: 10th May 2003 10:38
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www.openswf.org


maybe one day a bright spark will do a conversion, Id kick major ass in flash if that was the case

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Posted: 10th May 2003 17:07
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Quote: "so if it can just load it, wats the code?"


Open to read 1,"flash.swf"

Is all you have to work with!

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Posted: 10th May 2003 17:08
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Oh, already said.

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