FLASH: RE: FLASH Digital Phone FLash Four Demo

[Daniel Votino]

Anyone know where to find that digital phone flash four demo

thing . . ive looked everywhere . . its got cool alpha, coloring,

scaling and tricks like that on it??


thanx in advance, daniel


Best Regards, Daniel Votino

Project Manager, The Flash Brothers Design Group

510 E. Francis Ave. Suite# DESCRY, Spokane, WA 99207

509.755.9904 / 509.484.8466 / FAX: 509.484.8461

www.flashbrothers.com



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

From: John Croteau [

croteauerols [dot] com (mailto:croteauerols [dot] com)

]

Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 1:27 AM

To:

flashershocker [dot] com

Subject: Re: FLASH: preloading status



Hi Court,


> rollovers and pulldown menus. is there any way of doing this in flash

> 3 without javascript? if not, 

If Frame is Loaded routines can be implemented in a series based on

frames loade which can be calculated to their percentages, but this will

not neccessarily give a linear representation of loading especially if

what you are loading is mostly one big audio file.


> then does anyone know how PercentLoaded() works with different

>  browsers and platforms - how stable it is???

PercentLoaded() requires two way Flash communication with FSCommand thus

is limited to FSCommand capable browsers.

http://www.FlashBible.com/Members/FSCommand/FSCommand.htm


Most scripts created for PercentLoaded() fail because they use nearly

continuous looping which results in too many Javascript calls errors.

This is especially likely to error or crash version 3 browsers, but will

also crash version 4 browsers but it takes longer (longer download time

or longer than normal). Since, I think this is generally bad technique,

I do not have a working script for this on hand though there are some

around that work fine.


In Flash 4 you can check a movie property _framesloaded internally in

Flash to determine the loading state, care must be taken not to use

unlimited loops or Flash 4 will error too. A sample of a this is in

Flash 4:

Help > Samples > If Frame Is Loaded

This technique has the same basic limitation as normal If Frame is

Loaded as it is based on frames and not percentage loaded.


It is substantually better to provide preliminary content and/or

amusement than to tell visitors they are waiting. Just my opinion.


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