Staging Swf for AS2 and AS3, Answer and I'll send you cookies :)

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So I’ve been searching every resource I could find for the past week trying to figure out how to create a staging environment for a flash embed I push out.

Here’s the situation:

I have a flash embed that gets hotlinked on many of the social networks (MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, etc…). I want to port my flash application to AS 3 to benefit from the new features it entails. However, my analytics report that only 86% of my users are using Flash Player 9.

I want to keep my current Flash 8 version of my player as a Legacy version.

What I would like to create is a swf that can load EITHER of the two versions based on the version of Flash Player. The two apps would be an AS2 version (with a note telling the user they should upgrade FP), and an AS3 version.

Here’s the problems that I’m running into:

  1. I can’t seem to get an AS3 swf to run underneath a Flash 8 published app. Using attachMovie or a loader.
  2. I cannot use any javascript as my flash piece is being embedded on servers that I don’t have access to.
  3. I can’t use getURL on myspace due to the new FP9 security features.

I could have sworn I’ve seen this done before.

Thanks,
Jnbeck