Re: FLASH: Basic questions

[Ray Weisling]

##### level-1 quote by Michael Greenberg  (on) 05.06.00 (at) 23:34 -0600


>Hi Ray,

>Fancy seeing you here. Another Freehand addict here... I love it:):)


Hi Mike, haven't seen too much from you on FH-L, but I know, totally 

absorbed with this baby. "Paper, ink, what's that?" you say?


>

>1- Be more specific here are you talking just like scaling up by setting a

>property.

>

>2- Not sure about this one but I would love to know an answer from someone

>who does.


The two are interrelated. You can make the scale occur in the file, 

or let the user zoom when browsing. If the control are within the 

file, layers with large text could be turned off when zooming in, but 

can it be done when the user is zooming with the player controls?


If not, one way would be to have text blocks have a conditional 

attribute, that they simply would not be rendered if they would be 

outside of a certain size limit. It would keep ultra tiny and ultra 

large text from rendering at certain zoom levels.


I haven't seen anything like this anywhere. The first -- having the 

player zoom level accessible to the script (in a conditional 

expression) could control frame movement or scrne switching. The 

second would be automatic, since a setting would be made for the text 

when input. Actually all objects could have this show/hide attribute 

-- I bring in text from FH as objects (converted to paths), or at 

least where text is flowed onto a curve (winding streets and rivers), 

since Flash can't do this (yet).


I hope my explanation is clear enough.


As for what I am going to do with Flash, time will tell. For now it 

is 100% driven by my customer, but we are moving into it slowly. We 

expect to have hundreds of small maps, maybe more, on their website 

by December. Some are to be GIF, some Flash.


Ray



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