BIT-101 [2003-2017]

There seems to still be a lot of confusion on what is and isn’t supported in Flash Player 6, 6.0.65.0 and 7 with regards to AS 2.0 and v2 components. I’ve blogged about it a few times, as have others, but let’s try to get organized about it. Here, so far as I know, is what is supported and not:

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    <b>Publish settings (with AS 2.0 checked):</b>
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    <b>Flash Player &lt 6.0.65.0</b>
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    <b>Flash Player &gt= 6.0.65.0</b>
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    <b>Flash Player 7</b>
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    Yes
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    Yes
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    Yes
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    No (unless recompiled with "Optimize for Flash Player 6 r65" unchecked.)
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    Yes
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    Yes
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    No
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    No
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    Yes
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    No
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    No
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    Yes
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    No
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    Yes (require Geoffrey Williams' AS2 Classes for Central &#8211; see <a href="https://temp.gsolo.com/macromedia/central/helloWorld.zip"> Link</a>)
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    Yes (require Geoffrey Williams' AS2 Classes for Central &#8211; see <a href="https://temp.gsolo.com/macromedia/central/helloWorld.zip"> Link</a>)
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    <b>(UIObject based)</b>
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    Yes (must implement clipParameters for Inspectable getter/setters)
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    Yes (must implement clipParameters for Inspectable getter/setters)
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    Yes
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    <b>(not UIObject based)</b>
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    Yes (must implement clipParameters, initFromClipParameters() and mergeClipParameters() for Inspectable getter/setters &#8211; see UIObject.as)
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    Yes (must implement clipParameters, initFromClipParameters() and mergeClipParameters() for Inspectable getter/setters &#8211; see UIObject.as)
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    Yes
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If you see anything that isn’t quite right about this, or have anything to add, feel free to let me know.