ActionScript 3.0 MVP - Minimum support - Tracking Issue

[Herschel]

This is a general tracking issue for AVM2/ActionScript 3.0 content. AS3 content will not currently display properly in Ruffle, and will generally cycle through all the frames on the main timeline. Any issues about AS3 SWFs not running will be forwarded to this issue until content starts to function.

A non-exhuastive, basic checklist of where we are aiming for minimal AS3 support:

• ABC bytecode
  • Parsing
  • Basic opcodes
  • applytype (Vector)
  • Domain memory opcodes (Crossbridge/Alchemy)
• AS3 APIs
  • Simple animations w/ preloaders (minimum viable product)
    • DisplayObject (transform, root, parent, loaderInfo)
    • DisplayObjectContainer (addChild, removeChild, etc.)
    • Event (mouse clicks, preloader, enter frame)
    • EventDispatcher (mouse clicks, preloader)
    • IEventDispatcher (mouse clicks, preloader)
    • LoaderInfo (bytesLoaded, bytesTotal)
    • MouseEvent (mouse clicks, preloader)
    • MovieClip (play, stop, goto)
  • Basic games
    • Bitmap
    • InteractiveObject (mouse events and properties)
    • Keyboard
    • KeyboardEvent
    • Mouse
    • Sound
    • SoundChannel
    • Stage (keyboard events and stage properties)
  • Complex preloaders
    • DefineBinaryData tag + SymbolClass interaction
    • SymbolClass interaction for all display objects
    • getDefinitionByName, getQualifiedClassName
    • ProgressEvent
    • JSON
    • Other load events (Event.INIT, Event.COMPLETE)
    • Loader
    • Loading embedded SWFs
  • Other APIs (TODO)
    • Dictionary
  • Known issues blocking simple content and preloaders
    • Movie clips not advancing frames correctly (mentioned by Mike on Discord), possibly SymbolClass related
      • status: unknown
    • SimpleButtons not instantiated correctly (breaks calling addEventListener)
      • status: unknown
    • protected overriding isn't working at all
    • Coercion to Class not working (fixed in Avm2: Various Object / ClassObject cleanups #5325)
    • AVM2 regression: missing clips/parts/images/animations #3828 (DO instantiation regression)
    • avm2: All elements in an Array should be enumerable #5162 (array enumeration)
    • avm2: Update scope design #5249 (scopes and slot accesses being completely broken)
    • Error on chrome-extension://gfhjhnbngajgoncgcpooiehcgahagklk/player.html #5330 (bad root movie initialization?)

[ximena72]

Thanks for replying regarding ActionScript 3. Any ideas of alternatives, or expectations with Ruffle to make my project work? #1368 (comment) Best, Ximena Dr. Ximena Alarcón Sonic Migrations Artist INTIMAL, Deep Listening®, Telematic Sonic Performance Alumni Marie Skłodowska Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellow 2017-2019 Alumni RITMO Research Centre, University of Oslo http://ximenaalarcon.net (Personal website) http://intimal.net (Interfaces for Relational Listening) Tutor at the Center for Deep Listening: https://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu @ximesonic @soundingunder Resident of The Studio, Bath Spa University's Enterprise and Innovation Hub https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/the-studio/ News: Archive from telematic sonic performances 31.10.20 and 04.11.20 Vértices (Telematic Performance) at MIDBO - Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá <https://verticesperformancetelematica.wordpress.com/about/> 07.05.19 INTIMAL: A Long Distant Improvisation <https://intimal.net/stream/> Latest Publications Alarcon Diaz, Ximena. “Embodied Sonic Memories of Commuting Underground,” IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 43, nos. 1 and 2 (2017): 81–92. Published in 2020. Alarcon Diaz, Ximena and Alexander Refsum Jensenius (2019). “Ellos no están entendiendo nada” [“They are not understanding anything”]: embodied remembering as complex narrative in a Telematic Sonic Improvisation <https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=562880ea-1ba4-4110-b85a-1bdd05097a4a>. BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of RE:SOUND 2019 Alarcon Diaz, Ximena, Paul Boddie, Cagri Erdem, Eigil Aandahl, Elias Sukken Andersen, Eirik Dahl, Mari Lesteberg, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius. “Sensing Place and Presence in an INTIMAL Long-Distance Improvisation.” <https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/jonma/vol1/iss1/3/> Journal of Network Music and Arts 1, 1 (2019). https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/jonma/

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On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 7:37 PM dogtopus ***@***.***> wrote: Any Idea to overcome/replace Action Script 3 in the SWF? Maybe give Lightspark a try since it got better AVM2 support. Ruffle currently got practically 0 AVM2 support from what I can tell so definitely stay away if you are looking for using it for something serious. Also for workarounds for some serious use cases (like you mentioned) it's always possible to downgrade Adobe Flash Player to some earlier version and run it in a virtual machine with a network traffic whitelist for example. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1368 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AH4OXLGZKQVGTTLZIOCGWPDS2CKRPANCNFSM4S37VHUQ> .

[stux2000]

Thanks for replying regarding ActionScript 3. Any ideas of alternatives, or expectations with Ruffle to make my project work? #1368 (comment) Best, Ximena Dr. Ximena Alarcón

Personally, I would recommend filing a new ticket as I did with issue #2226 with your information. I think that would be a more appropriate place. Also, it sounds like full Action Script 3 support is still a ways away. Have you tried lightspark as mentioned above? If your project doesn't require to run on the browser you could download the adobe standalone player to run your application as well.

-stux

[ximena72]

Thank you! At some point I tried Lightspark and remember it as complicated, and also only for Windows, so I have to borrow a computer. I might try again. My work is a public installation, and run successfully for 11 years. I have now video documentation. I will try Lightspark again. Many thanks, Ximena Dr. Ximena Alarcón Sonic Migrations Artist INTIMAL, Deep Listening®, Telematic Sonic Performance Alumni Marie Skłodowska Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellow 2017-2019 Alumni RITMO Research Centre, University of Oslo http://ximenaalarcon.net (Personal website) http://intimal.net (Interfaces for Relational Listening) Tutor at the Center for Deep Listening: https://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu @ximesonic @soundingunder Resident of The Studio, Bath Spa University's Enterprise and Innovation Hub https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/the-studio/ News: Archive from telematic sonic performances 31.10.20 and 04.11.20 Vértices (Telematic Performance) at MIDBO - Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá <https://verticesperformancetelematica.wordpress.com/about/> 07.05.19 INTIMAL: A Long Distant Improvisation <https://intimal.net/stream/> Latest Publications Alarcon Diaz, Ximena. “Embodied Sonic Memories of Commuting Underground,” IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 43, nos. 1 and 2 (2017): 81–92. Published in 2020. Alarcon Diaz, Ximena and Alexander Refsum Jensenius (2019). “Ellos no están entendiendo nada” [“They are not understanding anything”]: embodied remembering as complex narrative in a Telematic Sonic Improvisation <https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=562880ea-1ba4-4110-b85a-1bdd05097a4a>. BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of RE:SOUND 2019 Alarcon Diaz, Ximena, Paul Boddie, Cagri Erdem, Eigil Aandahl, Elias Sukken Andersen, Eirik Dahl, Mari Lesteberg, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius. “Sensing Place and Presence in an INTIMAL Long-Distance Improvisation.” <https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/jonma/vol1/iss1/3/> Journal of Network Music and Arts 1, 1 (2019). https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/jonma/

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On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 1:47 PM stux2000 ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks for replying regarding ActionScript 3. Any ideas of alternatives, or expectations with Ruffle to make my project work? #1368 (comment) <#1368 (comment)> Best, Ximena Dr. Ximena Alarcón Personally, I would recommend filing a new ticket as I did with issue #2226 <#2226> with your information. I think that would be a more appropriate place. Also, it sounds like full Action Script 3 support is still a ways away. Have you tried lightspark as mentioned above? If your project doesn't require to run on the browser you could download the adobe standalone player to run your application as well. -stux — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1368 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AH4OXLED2OA2I6QPKXFDIALS2WEO7ANCNFSM4S37VHUQ> .

[marcovcy67]

Does anyone know when Ruffle is going to work properly with ActionScript 3.0
Thanks!
Ruffle-Bug.docx

Error Info

Error name: CompileError
Error message: WebAssembly.instantiate(): expected magic word 00 61 73 6d, found 3c 21 44 4f @+0
Error stack:

CompileError: WebAssembly.instantiate(): expected magic word 00 61 73 6d, found 3c 21 44 4f @+0

Player Info

Allows script access: true

Page Info

Page URL: http://www.easyworldofenglish.com/picdic/lpicdic.aspx?c=8589b881363b670c&l=0a489bff58f80c70&ls=1d41c4a503f989ca

Browser Info

Useragent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.141 Safari/537.36
OS: Win32

Ruffle Info

Version: 0.1.0
Name: nightly 2021-01-17
Channel: nightly
Built: 2021-01-17T01:05:59.152Z
Commit: c2b768c

[Boomkat91]

Existen algunos problemas con los juegos de Arcane, instalé la extensión Ruffle en Google Chrome

Link de los juegos
http://arcaneonlinegame.epizy.com/Arcane/Start.htm?i=1

En la sesión 1, en la sección episodes, se pixelean las imágenes de cualquier juego (problema mayor episodio 4), los objetos estas no se pueden colocar donde deben ir.

En cuanto a la sesión 2, en el link click to play, no termina de cargar el reloj de arena para que aparezca el botón de play.

[Haravikk]

Is it possible to lock comments on this issue? I started watching it to track progress, but it's been non-stop comments asking when it'll be finished, even though it should be obvious it's only at the early stages and it'll be done when it's done.

If this isn't the right place to track it, is there a mailing list or something I can subscribe to instead? I'd like to hear about the progress being made, when it's being made, rather than endless stream of people asking for updates.

[dogtopus]

Is it possible to lock comments on this issue? I started watching it to track progress, but it's been non-stop comments asking when it'll be finished, even though it should be obvious it's only at the early stages and it'll be done when it's done.

If this isn't the right place to track it, is there a mailing list or something I can subscribe to instead? I'd like to hear about the progress being made, when it's being made, rather than endless stream of people asking for updates.

Already unsubbed this thread because of this. I think the devs should at least put in bold text "ACTIONSCRIPT3/AMV2 SUPPORT IS VERY INCOMPLETE AT THIS MOMENT AND WILL LIKELY STAY LIKE THIS FOR THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE. PLEASE DO NOT SPAM THE THREAD WITH INQUIRIES. IT'S DONE WHEN IT'S DONE" or something like that and point the users to Lightspark or Adobe Flash Player in VM, etc. that actually works better than Ruffle.

[BlackMerkel]

I've found an issue on the spicework onpremise solution.

When u try to open up the network map it says that this SWF contains ActionScript3. When i press continue it will load nothing to the frame. Is there any solution to this Problem or is there a solution in work?

[gmariani]

Hello,
I'm the developer of .minerva, a Shared Object editor ( https://mariani.life/projects/minerva/ ). I made a 90% compatible parser/writer for AS3 and AS2 shared objects (never took the time to polish it as SWF was a dying technology). If it's any benefit to the project feel free to use it as a guide or reference for writing the equivalent in Rust. Or if you have any questions on it I can answer those too. Cheers!

https://github.com/gmariani/minerva

[stux2000]

Hello,
I'm the developer of .minerva, a Shared Object editor ( https://mariani.life/projects/minerva/ ). I made a 90% compatible parser/writer for AS3 and AS2 shared objects (never took the time to polish it as SWF was a dying technology). If it's any benefit to the project feel free to use it as a guide or reference for writing the equivalent in Rust. Or if you have any questions on it I can answer those too. Cheers!

https://github.com/gmariani/minerva

Although I'm not affiliated with the project, I've learned that Ruffle is licensed under the Apache license. In order to contribute your code to this project you may have to license or re-license your code into Apache or a "compatible" permissive license (not sure which ones would be compatible, maybe PD, MIT or BSD, but not GPL). After that, well, you'll have to talk to those in charge :).

[stux2000]

Is it possible to lock comments on this issue? I started watching it to track progress, but it's been non-stop comments asking when it'll be finished, even though it should be obvious it's only at the early stages and it'll be done when it's done.

If this isn't the right place to track it, is there a mailing list or something I can subscribe to instead? I'd like to hear about the progress being made, when it's being made, rather than endless stream of people asking for updates.

As the first commenter who broke the damn and started the ball going, I am a little surprised at the direction that the issue thread took. Might I suggest splitting this off into two issues: one for general comments and bug issues (maybe this can be re-purposed for that) and another for the actual tracking thread w/ comments disabled (and migrate open and closed issues to it?).

[Herschel]

I agree that this thread has been mostly off-topic; so I'm going to lock this to collaborators to keep it focused on updates.

For bug reports, please don't hesitate to file a new issue.
For discussion or questions, you can visit our discussison page or Discord.

Thank you!

[Dinnerbone]

All the requirements for MVP have now been hit, and from here it's a matter of overall API implementation (currently notable is more XML progress for some games).

I'm going to close and unpin this issue now, and full API progress can be tracked over at https://ruffle.rs/avm2.html