Re: FLASH: Symbol use and Filesize

[John Dowdell]

I'm not positive what's being sought, but for "What do 'Frame Bytes' do?"

then this measures the number of instructions to describe media and display

instructions for that frame.


This can be affected by the display of new elements on screen, and would

also be affected by the number of instructions needed to describe a symbol

built up of other symbols... even though your symbol named "Base square 2"

may be described in the early part of the file, each subsequent meta-symbol

would need to be describe how to use iterations of this symbol primitive to

make the new symbol.


(gosh, that was gnarly, let me try again... it make take 36 bytes to

describe a square as a symbol. If a new symbol named "asteroid graphic" is

made up of several instances of this square, then you wouldn't need to

describe new geometry, true... the file *would* need to describe where to

position each of these symbol instances, whether to apply rotation or

resizing or effects to it, etc.)


Maybe another way of looking at it: A symbol which is made up of other

symbols may not need to describe raw geometry, but it would still need to

describe the symbols which make it up, and this description could be tiny

or large, depending on the content.


Then again, you could be seeing something else entirely too. ;-)  But might

the above background help resolve what you're seeing in that example...?


jd






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