Re: unexpected swf filesize jump

[Dave Smith]

Dave Knight wrote:

> 

> >Dave Smith wrote:

> >>

> >> MM,

> >>

> > >Well Ive worked with Flash2 enough to know about making everything a

> > >symbol



> >Scratch that,

> >

> >After further study in the export report I found the prob.



> I'm rather interested in what is was that you were doing to your movie to

> make it bloat so badly... 



Hiya Dave,


It was my fault. I had added waaay to many frames behind a rather large

animated

symbol. Use action frames to loop animated symbols on the timeline when

you can.


This saves you alot of size.


> For instance:  how can I determine if my audience is going to have enough

> RAM to keep the movie pace where I want it to be?


Ive never seen this problem arise. Wouldnt worry about it. Make sure

your animations

can be handled by a lowly pent processor and remeber that only what

animations

that can be seen on monitor are occupying processor.

 

> Oh, and I have a question for the listers here...  what is it that is

> happening when I go to a page (I'm on NS3.0 / NT) and instead of just

> giving me the swf3 movie, it warns me that I'm downloading potentially

> dangerous stuff, so I have to click okay a bunch of times.  Then, it warns

> me that it is going to launch my swflsh32.exe or whatever it is that my

> flash player is called, and proceeds to launch my player as a separate

> application to play the movie while netscape cradles the injured website in

> the background.  Why is it doing this?  



Try turning down your security level in browser.


> This is my first post to the list... I've been around for three weeks or so

> by now...  so I apologize for all the questions,


Tats wad da lis' is for my friend.


HTH,


-DG-


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