Loading external SWF files as assets

[fp07]

Hello,

Will there be any support for loading external SWF files as assets in Ruffle in AS3?

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash/kb/load-external-swf-swf.html

[kmeisthax]

Eventually, yes. We implemented all methods of loading movies in AVM1; and AVM2 has fewer entrypoints to worry about compared to AVM1. All of the work necessary to have clips and symbols from multiple movies interacting in a single movie network is already done. That being said, there's still a lot of work until exposing this to AVM2 is viable:

• Extremely MVP AVM2 interpreter (implemented, mostly, needs merge, is extremely basic, doesn't even include math or coercion support)
• Native class support (in progress)
• Host objects for the display tree
• MovieClip class impl
• Global-scope isolation (each ABC runs in a separate global scope that inherits from another, but in a weird way)
• VM barriers (Movies cannot be mixed-VM, AVM2 movies can load AVM1 but the two VMs are sandboxed from each other)
• Loader Class & new load actions for AVM2-initiated movie loads

This looks like six PRs worth of work, and we're only at about one and a half done.

[fp07]

Any update on this @kmeisthax, there has been a lot done I think from the PRs you mentioned above 💯

[torokati44]

I think this is now done.

[Lord-McSweeney]

Mixed AVM isn't working yet. #11005 should close this issue.

[Lord-McSweeney]

With the merge of #11005 all external files should match FP in loading.