You can use Hayesmaker’s method described here:
http://www.codersbible.com/snippet/show/21

1) open your flash file with the symbol you want to embed
2) right click on the symbol name in the library and open the Properties menu
3) check the ‘Export for ActionScript’ checkbox

That’s it. Best luck,
M.

if I try that it’s just because I need to play an embedded swf on the background of my flex application
I tried to use the method with a swfloader (you can see on my print screen below how I used it).
It works without embedded but without it I need to refresh my page to put the extern swf in browser’s cache and the swf in baddly played the first time (loading problem)
then websites on websites… I arrived on this blog and tried the solution.
But doesn’t work.
Can you help me peter ?
thank you. if you need sources email me I guess you have it.

thank you very much.

but, that doesn’t work and I get this message error :
definition for symbol ‘bulletCheck’ not found gk/src/script index.as line 12 1253078517437 378
and
Unable to transcode anim.swf. gk/src/script index.as line 12 1253079095265 385

here you can see the code of the index.as :
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3631/copieecran.png
the code of index.mxml is (simplified) like (without xml symbol to not be eaten :
mx:Application
backgroundImage=”{BULLET_CHECK}”

so I think I have the same problem than cassio

Do you have any suggestion ?

What does the error say? And which version/build of the Flex SDK are you using?

Peter

My intentions are to put all my images in a single swf file, however it doesn’t work, comes with a transcoding compilation error…
when i compile a single symbol I get no error but it won’t solve my issue.
thanks..

also make sure you set a correct source path. I got your error when I tried to embed a swf in mxml, which was itself in subdirectory inside my src folder.

For example when you have two files:
/src/assets/MySwf.swf
/src/views/MyView.mxml
and you want to embed MySwf in MyView, be sure your source path starts with /
source=”@Embed(‘/assets/MySwf.swf’, symbol=’s')”

I forgot to put / at the start (was: ‘assets/MySwf.swf’) and the I got this error. Without the slash Flex would look for /src/views/assets/MySwf.swf .

My example doesn’t use button.swf. But I’d start by making sure that the button.swf (or icons.swf) is in the same directory as your main .MXML file, because the error message is telling you that it cannot find the button.swf asset.

Peter