Flash Player anyone?

[Vishalca]

Hello everyone,

I am using a TJ25, which sadly does not come with the flash player all the TH/UX/NX/NZ Series models have. Does anyone know of a flash player that will work with Palm OS 5, so I can see the .SWF files on my Clie? That would be great, considering that I need the software urgently for my company. Any help would be appreciated heavily! Thanks.

[Vishalca]

Anybody?

[amoon]

i tried to pull the files out of my UX but it wouldn't let me copy out of ROM sorry.

[Vishalca]

Is there any other software you can get that will allow you to view Flash files? Anything you can buy? Please!!!!! :(

[SacKingsFan]

Probably not

[amoon]

Have you tried this site? Not sure what files you need to play.
http://www.kinoma.com/products.html

[amoon]

Sorry i dont think the palm player plays Flash stuff.

[austinp]

what about this :

http://www.eti.hku.hk/eti/web/p_s_flash_on_plam.html

?

never tried....any1?

[amoon]

Vishalca,

Did u manage to find a flash player? I might be able to help now?

[Vishalca]

No Amoon, I wasn't able to find a flash player. I tried everywhere, and sent a couple of emails to developers, but got no reply. Your help is, as always, greatly appreciated. All I need right now is a flash player!:(

[amoon]

well i have managed to copy the files from my UX so your welcome to give them a go but i can't promise they'll work or that they won't crash your handheld.

[amoon]

Grab them from here
http://members.iinet.net.au/~apmoon/uxapps/uxflash/mmflash.zip

[Vishalca]

Thanks Amoon for all your help. I downloaded the files, and installed them fine, but when I went to launch the program, it said something about a system error. Are there any other files, or is my Clie just incompatible with MMFlash? Maybe I will have to get a higher model!

[amoon]

did u put them into RAM? There was a third file but i thought it was just a file that was generated when u launch the flash player. I'll put that file up as well and let you know.

[amoon]

OK there all there not sure if u have to many files but give them a go, no guaranties. Same link

[pusfarm]

It's near-worthless anyway, at least in my experience.  Almost every file I try to play brings up a "not enough memory" error.  I'm hoping for JackSprat for the TH someday so I can rid myself of this useless bloat.

[Vishalca]

I downloaded all the files you provided, Amoon, but it still says the same thing. I guess I am stuck then! Is there any hack I can download that would possibly make it work? Otherwise, I will keep looking around!

[amoon]

Sorry that it :(

[MarkF]

Hello Vishalca,

A *.SWF Player was something that I recently investigated for my NR70V, but deleted the one from HK Uni's E-Business Technology Institute (mentioned by austinp earlier) within the day.

The Program Download links for their Flash 4 Player, which is dated April 2002 [edit] and has a lot of limitations (160x160, no bitmaps, fonts nor shape morphing, 64KB Palm resource limit):

www.eti.hku.hk/cgi-bin/eti/showlist.pl?type=pd
www.eti.hku.hk/eti/web/p_s_flash_on_plam.html
(fp-palm.zip is 24.4MB and fp-palm-spec.pdf is 0.9MB)

Sony's Update for Flash 5 Player on Palm OS 5 Sony CLIÉs:

www.ita.sel.sony.com/bin/support/support.cgi?whichone=1&installfile=inst_flashplayer5089us.txt&downloadfile=INST_FLASHPLAYER50890US.PRC&loc=2

Macromedia's Content Development Kit for the above:

www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/sony_clie.html

Organise your own OS 4 port:

www.macromedia.com/software/devices/licensing/sourcecode/

Or post on Macromedia's Handheld Forum:

www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?catid=195

This Palm developer may be worth a look, these are Central & Flash Editors without the Player:

www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.developer&userID=1000581226

Hope these links help. Easter Greetings.

[Vishalca]

Thanks MarkF. All those links helped, and I tried out the Hong Kong Technology Institute flash player. The limitations do pose a problem, but I am trying to move around them. Just curious, which flash player are you currently using for your NR70V?

[MarkF]

You're welcome. However, having not found a viable Flash Player for my NR70V, I am not using one. I discounted Kinoma as only its Player component is free. [edit]

Macromedia demonstrated a Flash Player for the Palm OS at one or two conferences/seminars in 2002. It was apparently too slow to be usable on the then crop of 33MHz processors. The next Flash Player on the Palm scene targeted the ARM-based Sony CLIÉs, bypassing the 66MHz DragonBall Super VZ (MC68SZ328) in my NR70V and targeting the 200MHz NX70V.

[MarkF]

As an after-thought, given that Sony has targeted the TG50, which appears based on the same hardware as your TJ25 excluding the onboard MP3-playback DSP. You may want to explain to Sony your business need for a Flash Player.

https://e-support.vaio-link.com/eSupport/indexCLIELINK.html