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Flash lite 2.1 W/O Annoying Registration
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Posted by: know1

Flash lite is now available for Smartphones and PPCs running WM5, without the annoying and impossible registration process of the initial developer download. Just download the .cab, install, and it runs right away.

I have it running on my Dash, installed on the memory card with Flash 6 on the system memory.

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Posted by: jarod_lavay

thanks for the info, much appreciated

I noticed the "Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0 Documentation" download is not pointing to the right file, looks like the clowns at Macromedia who always posted the wrong download links on their site remained with the company during the Adobe buy out.

Posted by: know1

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Originally Posted by jarod_lavay

thanks for the info, much appreciated

I noticed the "Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0 Documentation" download is not pointing to the right file, looks like the clowns at Macromedia who always posted the wrong download links on their site remained with the company during the Adobe buy out.

Oops! I was logged in at the Adobe site already when I got the link......so yeah, you have to enlist and sell your soul at Adobe first, but its free and moderately painless.

The terrible registration that I was refering to before was the product registration. I had a previous release of Flash LIte on my Dash, but it required a ridiculous registration process that never seemed to do the one thing it was meant for--registration. So it never worked. This version just installs and plays.

Posted by: jarod_lavay

How did you get the Flash 6 player on your Dash, I thought that the flash 6 and 7 player were PocketPC only and not Smartphone

Posted by: know1

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Originally Posted by jarod_lavay

How did you get the Flash 6 player on your Dash, I thought that the flash 6 and 7 player were PocketPC only and not Smartphone

Read this thread: Link

Apparently, this is old news too. I wonder why people didn't share this more? I couldn't believe it when I found it--it was not easy to find, and I consider myself an expert googler. The only problem is it was a work in progress that probably got squashed after Flash Lite 1.0 began development. As you will see if you bother to install, it will not integrate with PIE. The upshot is, with the right combination of MIME types and coding, you could get the player to pop up from a browser link--similar to a streaming WMV example I have somewhere on this forum.

It does work pretty well with simple files, but I tried to run a random particle generator SWF file, and the Dash progressively slowed down to molassas. Nevertheless, I was impressed it was running in the first place--proof that it is indeed a Flash Player 6, and not a pre-release of Flash Lite 1.0

Posted by: jarod_lavay

too bad it's a stand alone exe

I was hoping for a DLL I could interop with and embed into C# apps

Posted by: know1

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Originally Posted by jarod_lavay

too bad it's a stand alone exe

I was hoping for a DLL I could interop with and embed into C# apps

Just out of curiosity, what are you planning there? Do you mean embed into an app that you are making, or one that you have on your phone that you know is programmed in C#. I guess that's why no one has been able to get this to play nice with PIE.

Anyway, the exe projector is unlike any other projectors in that it has a usable player open to play any other .Swf file. You just need an advanced file exporer to make an association, and then you can use it to open any other swfs. But you are right in that it is just an exe.

Posted by: jarod_lavay

Active X controls can be hosted on .NET Compact Framework 2 applications. What I do is wrap the active x dll of the Flash 7 for PDA files with some C# code and then I can embed the flash player into my own custom C# apps on my PDA. This way I can work with the flash player control in Visual Studio 2005 just like any other toolbox control.

There is no Active X control to extract from the flash 6 smartphone exe you pointed me to.

I've also tried the FlashLite 2.1 files and even though Bill Perry of Adobe said there's active x in there somewhere I couldn't find it to extract it.