Comments on: AVM1 Content in AS3? http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/ A nerd blog about nerdy things by ... nerdy guys? Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:39:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Soo http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/comment-page-1/#comment-4464 Soo Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:49:59 +0000 http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/#comment-4464 This may not be related but you might want to look at AVM2Loader class in libSpark. This may not be related but you might want to look at AVM2Loader class in libSpark.

]]> By: Mike http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/comment-page-1/#comment-3182 Mike Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:55:09 +0000 http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/#comment-3182 The simple answer is it's not really just an oversight on Adobe's part. I once read a techincal <a href="http://www.onflex.org/ACDS/AS3TuningInsideAVM2JIT.pdf" rel="nofollow">white paper</a> on the JVM (this was when AS3 was still a fluffy magic pill) and what they were doing to completely re-write it. And they did just that at the assembly level. So the long answer is AS3 runs in a completely separate context. Asking adobe to just "allow" us to run AVM1 / AVM2 code natively in the same process is akin to asking to run both 32bitWin / 64bitWin / Dos all natively. It just doesn't work, the only thing they could do to appease the masses is to write an emulator, but we all know how fast emulators are. The simple answer is it’s not really just an oversight on Adobe’s part. I once read a techincal white paper on the JVM (this was when AS3 was still a fluffy magic pill) and what they were doing to completely re-write it. And they did just that at the assembly level.

So the long answer is AS3 runs in a completely separate context. Asking adobe to just “allow” us to run AVM1 / AVM2 code natively in the same process is akin to asking to run both 32bitWin / 64bitWin / Dos all natively. It just doesn’t work, the only thing they could do to appease the masses is to write an emulator, but we all know how fast emulators are.

]]> By: bunnyhero http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/comment-page-1/#comment-3040 bunnyhero Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:44:58 +0000 http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/#comment-3040 i haven't tried this technique, but Jesse Warden wrote a couple of blog posts about using a proxy AVM1 SWF to communicate between AVM2 and the legacy AVM1 content using LocalConnection. instead of recoding the AVM1 content, you create a new AVM1 SWF that does the localconnection communication with the flash 9 parent, and LoadMovie()s the legacy SWF. for some reason, those blog posts have been removed from his blog, but google cache still has them: http://tinyurl.com/24rz2c http://tinyurl.com/yozssu i haven’t tried this technique, but Jesse Warden wrote a couple of blog posts about using a proxy AVM1 SWF to communicate between AVM2 and the legacy AVM1 content using LocalConnection. instead of recoding the AVM1 content, you create a new AVM1 SWF that does the localconnection communication with the flash 9 parent, and LoadMovie()s the legacy SWF.

for some reason, those blog posts have been removed from his blog, but google cache still has them:

http://tinyurl.com/24rz2c
http://tinyurl.com/yozssu

]]> By: Marc http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/comment-page-1/#comment-3008 Marc Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:23:50 +0000 http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/#comment-3008 Very cool. There is definitely some awesome feed back on the issue. Paulo, your recommendation is awesome. I never considered that. However, to add insult to injury (on my part), the experiment is in AIR and (as far as I know) you can't pass arguments to a file reference (ie: File.url or File.nativePath). Ah well .. I'm not going to give up on your recommendation though. I'll keep 'screwing' with it. Anywho .. Ian .. you're right. I'm pretty good at being a loud-mouth idiot, I should totally start directing this energy at Adobe. What were they thinking .. not support AVM1 content to its fullest... Very cool. There is definitely some awesome feed back on the issue. Paulo, your recommendation is awesome. I never considered that. However, to add insult to injury (on my part), the experiment is in AIR and (as far as I know) you can’t pass arguments to a file reference (ie: File.url or File.nativePath). Ah well .. I’m not going to give up on your recommendation though. I’ll keep ‘screwing’ with it.

Anywho .. Ian .. you’re right. I’m pretty good at being a loud-mouth idiot, I should totally start directing this energy at Adobe. What were they thinking .. not support AVM1 content to its fullest…

]]> By: ian http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/comment-page-1/#comment-3004 ian Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:58:51 +0000 http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/#comment-3004 I recommend making a stink about this, be loud. I talked to a flash player architect about some issue's I was having with captivate in flex. avm1 - avm2 communication is poor. He indicated that there was some noise on the channel, but theres not really a big push to get this figured out in the player. Speak up, join in, send in bug requests. I recommend making a stink about this, be loud. I talked to a flash player architect about some issue’s I was having with captivate in flex. avm1 – avm2 communication is poor. He indicated that there was some noise on the channel, but theres not really a big push to get this figured out in the player. Speak up, join in, send in bug requests.

]]> By: Dave_Matthews http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/comment-page-1/#comment-2996 Dave_Matthews Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:52:54 +0000 http://blog.nobien.net/2007/10/04/avm1-content-in-as3/#comment-2996 You're correct, for all the noise about backward compatability - Adobe has broken the paltform be destroying all previous content made with Flash... You’re correct, for all the noise about backward compatability – Adobe has broken the paltform be destroying all previous content made with Flash…

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