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Kendall Whitehouse

Kendall Whitehouse

www.wharton.upenn.edu

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. A Quick Glance at the FlashPaper API
  3. A Basic FlashPaper Loader Function
  4. Adding Your Own User Interface
Created:
16 August 2004
User Level:
Intermediate
Products:
Flashpaper

Importing FlashPaper 2 Documents into Macromedia Flash and Using the FlashPaper API

Macromedia FlashPaper first appeared in Macromedia Contribute as a tool to easily publish office documents to the web by converting them to the Macromedia Flash SWF file format. In most cases, you embed FlashPaper-generated SWF files into web pages to provide a quick online preview of a document.

FlashPaper embedded in a SWF using the FlashPaper API

Figure 1. FlashPaper embedded in a SWF using the FlashPaper API

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But since FlashPaper SWF files are true SWF files, you can use them as you would any other SWF file. For example, you can import a FlashPaper-generated SWF file into your Macromedia Flash project and manipulate it just as you would any other SWF file.

In addition, FlashPaper-generated SWF files have an application programming interface (API) that you can use to control many of the unique features of a FlashPaper SWF file.

With FlashPaper 2, Macromedia introduced a new version of FlashPaper, available as a standalone product or bundled with Macromedia Contribute 3. FlashPaper 2 introduces a new API to control the behavior of a FlashPaper document when embedded in another file. This article provides an overview of the FlashPaper 2 API along with a few examples of how to use it.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

FlashPaper2

Macromedia Flash MX 2004

Macromedia Flash 7.2 Update

Download the Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 7.2 updater for English:

Important: Do not uninstall Flash to add this updater. The updater installs over your current version.


Tutorials and sample files:

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About the author

As Director of Advanced Technology Development for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Kendall Whitehouse works to maintain the School's position as the global leader in the business application of information technology.

In recent years Kendall has been responsible for the development of many of the School's intranet, extranet, and worldwide web applications, including several generations of Wharton's award-winning "SPIKE" student intranet (http://spike.wharton.upenn.edu/) and a number of the experiential learning simulations developed for the Wharton School's Learning Lab (http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/learning/).