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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Help needed with scenes
From:	dartfrogmedia
Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:03:59 +0100

At 12:54 AM 7/11/99 +0300, you wrote:
>Hello, let me introduce myself. I am Manos from Athens and I am a
>Flash "newbie". So, I have a question for anyone who can help. I make
>a movie with Flash that has two or more scenes, I want to create a
>button to make the "transfer" from one scene to the next scene. When
>I test the movie in FLash, it's OK and it stops between scenes until
>I press the button. But when I export it to html, it is playing all
>scenes without stopping or waiting for clicking the button. The
>manual is not too good help because my English is very bad. Can
>someone explain how to do this (in simple english, for stupid people
>:-)??

Hello Manos and welcome to the list,

First I'll tell you how to do what you want. Then I will tell you why
scenes are a bad idea :-).

At the end of each scene put a frame action that says Stop. Then make the
button action just say Play. This is all you need to do.

If you use scenes you will run into trouble when you start making more
complicated Flash. Many Flash developers will use scenes when they make a
long Flash piece, but they will remove the scenes before they export the
movie. Here is what John Croteau has written:

>
>There are several reasons I suggest not to uses Scenes.
>
>1) File size will be increased if items that appear at the end of one
>scene are used in the first frame of the next. This is because every
>item in a new Scene is new and has a placement cost in the first frame
>of a Scene.
>This is not normally a problem but should be considered. My Xmas 97
>movie done in Flash 2 is 64K when done in a single Scene but was over
>250K when divided into 5 Scenes. This is because of the placement costs.
>In the one Scene version over 700 Angel buttons are placed only one time
>each. Whereas in the 5 Scene version there are 5 x 700 or 3500
>placement costs for the Angel buttons which are used thoughout the
>movie.
>If there are no carry over graphics (from one scene to the next) there
>is no penalty for using Scenes since there are no graphics that would
>have to be placed more than once. There is a small cost for placing each
>symbol and most of the time this cost will not be large but in some
>cases it can add up and the result can be huge.
>
>2) Movie Clips can not be used across Scene boundaries. If a Movie Clip
>is used in both Scene One and Scene Two the Movie Clip when accessed in
>the second scene will be restarted from its beginning and any
>information stored in it will be lost.
>Though you can use Load Movie instead of a Movie Clip, this can create
>other problems such as making sure that the second Movie is loaded
>before accessing it.

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