Re: FLASH: GoTo Action failure (VERY creepy)

[brzys]

Hi Marcel,


I downloaded your FLA and tried it with my commands and just testing the

movie without any commands, just hit the play button. It took a lot longer

to play, load each one of those bitmapped images. Obviously, it's going to

load faster right off the drive, but in comparison by just playing it,

seemed to take a lot longer.So you might be right, perhaps it's configured

to see vectored objects/frames usually and not bitmapped art. It still would

be faster created entirely in Flash with bitmaps. It would also be a smaller

file.


Mary Brzys

----- Original Message -----

From: Marcel Trenchard <

MarcelTinteractivesystems [dot] com

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To: <

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Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 1:26 PM

Subject: RE: FLASH: GoTo Action failure (VERY creepy)



> Mary, strange that you ask Eric that because that was my first plan. Those

> are exactly the same actions that I tried and you know what?...the movie

was

> going to the frame and the bitmap was STILL not loaded. Could it be that

> Flash does not include the bitmaps on a frame as part of the overall

loading

> of that frame? At first I thought it might be a bug in the Bandwidth

> Profiler but I put it online, pulled out a funky old puter with a 14.4

modem

> and I was seeing it just as the Test Movie was simulating it. Over and

over,

> Flash would calculate the frame as being loaded, jumping to it and still

> displaying the frame with everything but the bitmap. I would wait a few

> seconds and the bitmap would finally come in. I just hate using bitmaps in

> flash, but in this case, I have no choice.

>

> L8er,

> marcel

>

> > -----Original Message-----

>

> From: brzys [SMTP:brzysmediaone [dot] net]

> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 6:14 PM

>

> To: flashershocker [dot] com

> > Subject: Re: FLASH: GoTo Action failure (VERY creepy)

> >

> > Hi Eric,

> >

> > Just out of curiousity, why didn't you use:

> >

> > If Frame is Loaded (19)

> > Go to and Stop (19)

> > End Frame Loaded

> >

> > Mary Brzys

> > ----- Original Message -----

>

> From: Eric Smollin <esmollinPLANSOFT [dot] com>

>

> To: <flashershocker [dot] com>

> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 12:39 PM

> > Subject: RE: FLASH: GoTo Action failure (VERY creepy)

> >

> >

> > > Hi again Marcel.

> > >

> > > >Thanks Eric...**You Da Man**, I think your on the right track. I'll

try

> > > >using the MC's and Tell Target calls. The bitmaps that i'm trying to

> > > preload

> > > >appear later in the course and are mostly ornamental and secondary to

> > the

> > > >instructional-text information. What I'm trying to do is provide the

> > option

> > > >of skipping over the preloading of the bitmaps, instead of forcing

the

> > end

> > > >user to wait. I figured that many of the bitmaps would be loading

while

> > the

> > > >user was reading the text for the course if they take the option of

> > > skipping

> > > >the preloader.

> > >

> > > I'm glad that I could help. You might want to think about creating two

> > > courses (movies), one with images and one without. If the user doesn't

> > click

> > > on the "skip" button, put a "Continue" button at the end of the bitmap

> > > loading sequence and give it an action to Go To the course with

images.

> > For

> > > the course without images you can give the "Skip" button an action to

> > bypass

> > > the loading of the bitmaps and go right to the no-image course using

> > Tell

> > > Target (it would have to be loaded already though).

> > >

> > > Good luck with the project.

> > >

> > > Eric Smollin, Multimedia Instructional Designer

> > > PlanSoft Corporation

>

> > esmollinplansoft [dot] com

> > > www.plansoft.com

> > >

> >

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