I have been testing Flex SWFs embedded in PDF files against Flash SWFs embedded in same using arbitrated script messaging.
When a frame seek command is sent from the PDF to the embedded Flash SWF and the Flash SWF has a web service connector present, the Flash movie correctly processes the seek message as being a direct client- client message. When the same frame seek command is sent from the PDF to the embedded Flex SWF which has a web service present it makes a response back to the PDF, generating a status message. The message can be seen in Acrobat 6 Editor. An enormous delay is essentially the result when doing even a simple arbitrated command like setting a basic TextArea component's text property as each character in the command stream gets a response from the Flex SWF. Flash SWFs don't have this problem. The delay also show up with Remote Object data services in Flex SWFs using AMF messaging. Also no problem with AMF messaging present in Flash SWFs. You can see what I mean by tring the following PDF with Adobe Reader 6.0 and the current Flash Player. (Windows Platform only) http://24.71.76.197:8080/flex/soapExample.pdf Play around with the Flash portion first. Notice everything works lickety split. Then try the Flex portion. It delays everything when messaging from the PDF buttons. The Soap services themselves are not affected. Only commands going from the PDF to the Flex SWF from the PDF command buttons. Any insight here would be helpful. Also remember that the significant delay only happens in the Flex SWFs when data services are present in the file. Although there is a modest delay even without the data services. (Flex about a second) No problem with Flash at all, only about 3-4 milliseconds lag time) Craig
