Is it safe to embed a Flash animation in a C# form?

[Mark B]

Has anyone had any experience with the reliability of embedding a flash
animation in a C# form?

 

[Peter Morris]

Reliability in what way? You add it to the form, load the animation, and it
works. You just need to ensure the target machine has the correct activex
control installed.

 

[Mark B]

Unexpected hangs, unexpected error messages etc.

If it's for a C# app that will be downloaded from the Internet by anyone,
can we ensure that the target machines have the correct Active-X control
installed?

 

[Mark B]

Actually while I'm on the subject, I wonder what alternative I could use
instead of Flash for an animation?

We currently use Flash on our asp.net website. The particular Flash swf
reads a dynamically-generated XML file to insert the current language text
into the animation so we don't have to create a whole lot of swf files --
i.e. one for each language.

I was hoping to do the same thing on the C# windows application. Ideally we
wouldn't have flash as we'd prefer to stick with something native .net and
that doesn't rely on third party software.

The animation itself is relatively simple -- it's a tutorial showing the
mouse clicking on a menu drop-down, scrolling down and selecting a
menu-item. We want to dynamically write the text labels for each menu-item
though in the correct language.