I need to play flash movies within another morph rather than in a 
Flash window. However, Flash players seem only to want to be opened 
in windows; #openInWorld forces itself to open in a flash window, 
adds a model, etc.

I discovered that I could drag the flash player out of the window and 
it still seemed to work. This suggested that I merely stick the flash 
player morph in some other morph and open the other morph to get the 
player to open. I set background colors to transparent so that other 
things showed through, and ended up with this code:

fn := 'PPC9500:Lang:Squeak:Squeak2.7 Folder:flash swf 
folder:home.mpinet.net/dgarystudios:dgs_FT_enter.swf'.
	f _ ((FileDirectory forFileName: fn) readOnlyFileNamed: fn) binary.
	player _ (FlashMorphReader on: f) processFile.
	m := RectangleMorph new.
	m	addMorph: player;
		bounds: player bounds;
		color: Color transparent;
		borderWidth: 0.
	player
		color: Color transparent;
		startPlaying.
	m openInWorld

The sample has a number of disjoint visual pieces and the effect is 
just what I was looking for: a flash movie plays with no visible 
background itself so that other stuff shows through.

One problem is that the sample file was stolen from a commercial site 
so I can't send it; it's also big enough to matter.

My question is whether this just seems to work for this one case 
(actually I've tried three), or will work in general for all flash 
files that work anyway?

If it works in general, why doesn't a flash player allow itself to 
#openInWorld? I would really expect the current #openInWorld to be 
named #openInWindow considering what it does.

Help!

Dave
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IBM T J Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY
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