Re: [flasher] RE: First full flash website

[Muzak]

Using scenes or not using them depends on the poject. They sometimes do have advantages. I hardly ever use them myself and also

prefer using Movieclips.

One thing to be aware of when using movieclips is that a movieclip has to be fully loaded before it will even show/play it's first

keyframe. So you could build a movie that only has one frame in the main timeline and have lots of nested movieclips. Then that

movie would have to be fully loaded before anything shows up.


If you do use scenes, do keep in mind (like JGL said already) that using frame numbers is not a good thing. Use frame labels

instead. Another thing is you can't target a scene by it's scene name from within a movieclip in another scene. You can target a

frame label in another scene though - so that's just another good reason to use frame labels :-)


Muzak


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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:32 PM

Subject: [flasher] RE: First full flash website



> You must mean scenes. I just don't like the fact that frame 1 of scene 2 is

> actually (arbitrary number here) frame 320 of the swf that gets published.

> MC's, IMO, are the best thing to get used to using instead of scenes. One is

> the reason above and second you can have simultaneous timelines. I don't

> want to get into the scene usage debate again, this is just my opinion as

> well as a few others.

>

> If you have a good use for scenes than by all means keep using 'em. It's

> really an authoring convenience and really nothing else.

>

> jgl