Re: FLASH: flasher

[John Croteau]

Hi Eric,


> I normally dont do this...but Iam desperate...Its like my questions are

> gettin ignored? Did I do something wrong? If so Iam sorry.

> Even if its just "we have no idea Eric".

> That is better than no response at all....

We don't encourage people to post to the List if they don't have an

answer to questions posted. If everyone who didn't know the answer to

questions posted to the List Emailed us to tell us 'I'm sorry I don't

know' we would be bombarded with useless information. If you need

mission critical help you should consider contacting me or MM directly.

But you are likely to have to pay for this service.


> I'am developing animation in flash 3 for a client to

> use on software that he is having created. The problem is I need a button that

> when it is pressed to that will close the flash file and let the user return

> to the main software screen.

If you don't get an answer to a question it is best to pose your

question in a different way. For instance if you said I am embedding a

Flash ActiveX control for use with another program and I need to close

Flash from a button, a possible answer would immediately sping to my

mind. You can probably use the special FSCommand for projectors  Quit in

a FSCommand action in your Button.


> My other problem is that the animation slows some

> at certain points because more than 1-2 events is happening at the same time.

It is very important to optimize your graphics when a single element is

moving across a large portion of the screen or you have several items

animating at the same time.. The larger the size of screen where mthe

motion the more proicessing the computer will have to do. From your

previous posts you seem to be importing instead of creating in Flash

because Flash couldn't create complex graphics. Simplier is general

better when animating in Flash.


Use the Report and the Bandwidth profiler so you can concentrate your

optimizing on the objects that are slowing you down. There are many ways

to optimize files to make them smaller or faster. Many of them are

discussed in Tech Notes:

http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/Index.htm#Optimizing 


> My question is should I use director instead of flash to create this animation?

> Will this make the slowing decrease?

It depends on the animation but Director only works with Flash 2

features so far.

If you have used Movie Clips, Load Movie, Shape Tweening or any of the

other new Flash 3 features then they would have to be removed to make

your animation work in Director. A Flash 3 plugin/ActiveX control should

be available for Director soon but how soon is not known yet.


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