Graphic Distortion and Afterburner Javascript

[steven warren]

I've been noticing some weird graphic artifacting in my SWF files.  Here's

what I've noticed:


If you look at the Zoecom site: http://www.zoecom.com, at the bottom of the

page there is a navigation bar done in Flash.  In particular, look at the

"in the press" button.  This is where you can see that the 45 degree

diagonal line is not perfectly straight.  There are other artifacts we can

see, but that is the one we're looking at for perfection.


In the Flash document it looks perfect.


When you export a SWF file, the graphics deteriorate.  Even with the highest

quality JPEG compression, AND even with lossless compression turned on.


This is not an issue of sizing on the html page... when you view it at 100%

in the SWF player, the artifacting is still there.


I've noticed that the buttons *being symbols* have something to do with it. 

If you pull the graphic straight out of the Library without making it a

symbol, the graphic survives the export in perfect health.  The minute you

turn that graphic into a symbol and export again, it's crummy looking.


Now our buttons *must* be symbols, because a button *is* a symbol.  But I

need to make it look perfect.  Does anyone know how to fix this?


One other question:  When I process these files through aftershock, and it

creates the imagemapped GIF files, they too are ugly and dithered looking. 

Do we have any palette control or is there another way to get the GIF files

to look better?


We're also doing another big site that relies heavily on Aftershock to

reduce the amount of work that goes into the project.  I could re-create all

the gif files using Photoshop, but that sort of defeats the purpose of

aftershock, doesn't it?


Oh yeah, while we're on the subject of aftershock, ANOTHER question...  The

Javascript that Aftershock creates, that detects the browser state

(Flash/Java/GIF) occurs in every usage of a Flash movie.  Isn't there a

better way to detect the browser state once (like on our opening screen),

then have the browser know that through the rest of the site?  I don't

really want to use cookies, but I also don't want to create multiple html

files either.


-evilsteven


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