Digital Workshop

Flex has its limitations, but they are mostly well-documented. If you read the documentation and decide to continue and to ignore the limitations, well...

Several years back I tried to use Flex, and found that the SWF/HTML combination did not suite my needs. However, I liked the ability of Flex to produce output that was pretty much platform independent, that is, the SWF files.

To overcome these problems, I acquired a wonderful little program called SWF2AVI. I create an Opus Flex pub and then convert it. Over the years this has successfully converted even very large SWF files to usable AVI files which work quite happily inside a standard Opus video object.

Most of my pubs are non-interactive, and I honestly cannot recall whether I have encountered problems with interactivity within the converted AVI files.

You might find it worth getting a copy of SWF2AVI and seeing what it does (doesn't ) do for you.

If my understanding of Flash is correct:

1. No one (including MM) makes a Flash file that can call full HTML pages from within the file.

2. Opus correctly makes Flash files, with the limitation that embedded Flash files will not have full interactivity if they are embedded as video files.

The question would then apear to be:
If an external Flash file is included via DocView, will this file retain its full interactivity? And if it does, how do you set it up on the server?