FLASH: Davo's Flash tip of the day.(#12)

[David Gary]

Hiya FLashers,


Have alot of graphics in the first few keyframes of your movie and alot of empty


frames that follow giving room for "pausing" or animated graphics? Notice that

the more the empty keyframes behind a graphic the larger the swf file becomes?


If you need "time" or a "pause" after animations during your movies, but

dont want to double the swf size, a good answer might be a "blank frame" Movie

Clip. Simply create your animated symbol(preferably as its own MC) and a "stop"

action keyframe after the animation. At the stop frame add a Movie clip with

nothing but empty frames(the more the frames, the longer the "pause").

At the end of the "blank frame" movie clip add a "tell target"= _level0/"goto

next frame" On the maintimeline where you have the "stop" action keyframe and

the blank MC, right after it place a "play" action keyframe. THis way, the main

timeline stops where all your graphics sit and when the blank keyframe movie

clip finishes its run it with start up the maintimeline again without increasing

the file size.


You can use it over and over down the timeline where you need it instead

of extremely long timelines.


Note: If you have movies loaded in different levels then you need to specify

in "    _level?   "  (Quotes not needed).


I remember in the past someone asking how to "pause" a Flash movie.


HTH,


-DG-



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