FLASH: Sharing resources over scenes

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Hi everyone,


A long time ago I read on the list that using scenes to organize your movies

wasn't a good idea because it increases file size. If I remember correctly..

the post said that symbols are not shared from each scene...so if you put a

bitmapped image on the stage in scene one, then convert to a symbol and use

it in scene two... it would increase the file size.


I'm starting a project and the structure would be best for me to use 3

scenes and share symbols between scenes... but I don't want to pay the

penalty of increased file size due to using scenes. I suppose I could put it

all together in one scene but it might result in a very complex timeline.

Breaking it into 3 scenes would be much easier to manage. I ran a simple

test of where I created two identical files with the exception of one of

them having two scenes. I didn't see any difference in file size in the

resulting swf.


Am I missing something here? Just what are the penalties of using scenes?


Thanks in advance


Alan




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