I have started another project in Flex, which will be mostly built with Actionscript 3. One of the requirements is to have an imported SWF containing a movieClip with images on each frame, frame names, and the ability to use gotoAndPlay/gotoAndStop.

According to the docs, you can’t use a previous Flash version SWF to do this. Only AS3 movieclips can be manipulated in this way. The problem is, you can’t programmatically create a movieclip in AS3; we have to wait for the new Flash IDE (Blaze) to do that.

Ali Mills has come up with a way of using Flash 8 SWF’s to do this using localConnection. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks like a great workaround.

I’ll let you know how I get on…

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