Re: FLASH: Davo's Flash tip of the day.(#13)

[John Croteau]

Hi David,


> This little tip might help. Create an animated graphic called "framemeasure".

> (I usually create it in it's own Fla file so I can drop and drag to use it for

> testing other movies.) In this "framemeasure" symbol place number fonts in each

> frame. EX: frame 1

> type in the number 1,  in frame "2" type in the number 2, and so on.

> Now, create a (temp) layer in the top of the movie clip you want

> to test. Then drag or copy and paste animated framemeasure symbol

> into this (temp) layer.

> Now when you watch the movies you can see the "framemeasure" symbol counting and you

> can easily figure out why that little MC you spent all night on isnt acting right.


Making this number test kit an animated (multi-frame) graphic is a very

good idea.

Follow this by placing it in one of your Graphics Library FLA or put a

new FLA in the Flash Libraries folder so it is available quickly.  Then

just go to Libraries > Graphics or the name of your FLA file that you

put in the Libraries folder.


When testing Movie Clips or Load Movie drop an Instance of the animated

Graphic (I am calling it _Numbers so it is first in the List) on a new

top layer in each Movie Clip or Movie and color code them (with color

tweeen) so you know which one is which.


This will save me and others a lot of time.


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