FLASH: Real Stumper With BMP's

[John Davis]

I need input on a problem I am having with bitmaps in Flash4.  I am working

on my companies web site and have reported the problem to Macromedia.  They

reported to me on 8/4/99 that they recreated the same problem on both

platforms and are working on it.  Well unfortunately, I can't get any

additional feedback out of Macromedia, after additional emails and phone

request.  I don't want to portray Macromedia in a negative light, I am sure

they have issues they are working on that are more important then mine.

Regardless, my company may squash the Flash site and that would pretty much

end my involvement with the web development for them.


So after that dissertation, here's the problem and the request for help.  If

you take a bitmapped symbol in Flash4 and place it on a one frame, main

movie time line and test the movie, it looks fine.  However if you take that

same movie, create additional frames and place that symbol in any one of

those frames and test the movie what do you see?  Bitmap degradation, at

least that's what I am seeing.  No matter how the image is brought in, png,

pict, gif, jpeg, or how it is handled on output through Flash, the bottom

line is if it's a multi-frame main movie timeline, the bitmap degrades in

appearance.  At least that's what I am seeing and I presume what Macromedia

relayed to me that they are seeing.  Here's my question, If anyone else has

encountered the same problem and found a solution, short of eliminating the

bitmaps, please let me know.


Thanks in advance.


John Davis

jdavisrsmearthlink [dot] net

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