I'm creating an app to dynamically load slideshows exported from openoffice (as
swf's). But when I try tracing the _currentframe of a slideshow, it returns
undefined. Also... I created a forward button but it only works when I forward
the frame of the movieclip I loaded the swf into...

Luckily my question is only this... What's with the openoffice swf exporter
that gives me these problems and doesn't permit the swf to be imported onto the
stage at authortime?

Flash is a very poor imported of SWF files. If you import you loose clip
contents, button states, shape tweens, script and sounds. Other
applications are much better able to import SWF files .. it just doesn't
seem to be a priority for MM developers. Maybe the logic behind that is
that they thing you should use Flash for making all your SWF file, so you
don't need to import a SWF that you don't have FLA source for.

Use loadMovie to load in a SWF at playing-time .. don't import SWF into
Flash at authoring-time.

Flash imports swf files fine EXCEPT for those exported from OpenOffice... so I
don't know what you're talking about when you say it's a very poor importer of
swf files...

And as I said at the start, I AM dynamically loading the slideshows at
"run-time" as we call it.

Is there anyone here with experience with OpenOffice?

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That's actaully not true. There's a plugin for 3dsMax called Illustrate (i
haven't used it for a while tho, so don't jump down my throat for this)
which renders 3d animations out as .swf files. When you play back the file
(in flash player or a browser) it all looked great, but if you actually
imported the swf (rather than loading at runtime) lots of fills and lines
used to disappear.

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