Re: FLASH: Graphic File bug?

[Gahlord Dewald]

I've heard that just doing your _entire_ flick in a movie clip and setting up

your main timeline to only include 1 frame will deal with this issue.


Flash 4 right?


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On 9/14/00 at 11:00 AM, Seth Newton <

newton_sethkeithley [dot] com

> wrote:


> Hello all,

>     I've been developing an online demonstration of our software that we've

> developed for one of our product lines.  For this demo, I've had to take

> screen shots of certain elements.  I've been saving them as .png files,

> since I've heard Flash does best with them.  And admittedly, I have tested

> out the different formats, and it does seem to hold the best in a Flash

> presentation.  But here's the deal.

>     When I throw a .png file into a movie, and test it out, it works perfect

> IF I am only using one frame in that layer.  However, as soon as I put a

> second frame on any layer in the movie (even if it's on a layer other than

> the picture I'm trying to keep undistorted), the picture will distort, and

> it loses it's original look.  So going on that, I figured Ok, I'll just

> create a movie with one frame with just that picture in it, and then import

> it into the scene I'm working on.  That didn't work either.  So now it looks

> like I'm going to have to live with the bug, unless anyone can give me some

> fresh ideas on the problem?  And yeah, I've tried this with other file

> formats to see if it's just a .png problem, and it's not.  I tried it with

> ..bmp, .gif, and .png.....and the results are all the same.  I searched the

> technotes, and did a search in past posts, and I'm either stupid and can't

> find the answer anywhere, or it's not documented (I'm guessing it's my first

> statement, but oh well).

> 

> I'm going to continue production, because it is liveable, but it REALLY

> takes away from the original quality of the .png file.  So if anyone has

> some advice, thanks very much for your time, and if not, well

> still....thanks.

> 

> -Seth.

> 

> 

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