[casual_games] Re: PopCap developer needed urgently

[Hal Barwood]

If you include a non-bundled file, that means you'll be asking your 
customers to download a bunch of files, potentially confusing him/her 
and creating a barrier, however small, to wide acceptance.  And, isn't 
MIDI kind of old-fashioned, even among casual gamers?  Why not opt for 
really low-bit-rate MP3 files instead?


Matthew Ford wrote:
> This may be the most unhelpful contribution in the history of this 
> list... but I could swear that somewhere I saw a tip about how to play a 
> MIDI file in Flash. Something about creating an empty sound clip that 
> then somehow points to the MIDI; the MIDI is not imported into the swf 
> but is accessed by it.
>  
> It's on the Internet somewhere so that should help narrow your search. 
> :) Something tells me I saw it in the ActionScript 2.0 forum on 
> Macromedia's site. In any case a quick ask there or on FlashGeek or the 
> like may dig it up or prove that I dreamed it. Apologies in advance if 
> it's a goose chase.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> - Flash 8 (the most recent version) does not support MIDI playback of 
> any kind.  You can convert your MIDI files to MP3, at the expense of 
> your file size.  You might also be able to build a custom C++ wrapper 
> that encloses your Flash movie, and perhaps get MIDI playback working 
> via the C++ libraries, but it's probably not worth the effort.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Casual_Games mailing list
> Casual_Games at igda.org
> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/casual_games