FLASH: Symbol use and Filesize

[Tobie Kerridge]

Hi,


I'm experiencing some wierdness in my file size. I have a swf which is built

entirely from 1 symbol. These are then duplicated many times within other

symbols to create text and other objects. When I publish my movie, it seems

to base the file size on the amount of symbol iterations, adding up the each

of the instances. Heres the swf report:


Movie Report

------------

Frame #    Frame Bytes    Total Bytes    Page

-------    -----------    -----------    ---------------

    1         19720          19720        Scene 1

    2          9206          28926          2

    3             2          28928          3

    4             2          28930          4

    5             2          28932          5

    6          8076          37008          6

    7          6861          43869          7

    8          1212          45081          8

    9          1212          46293          9

   10         28368          74661          10

   11           297          74958          11

   12           466          75424          12

   13             2          75426          13

   14             2          75428          14

   15            19          75447          15

   16         13970          89417          16

   17          1306          90723          17

   18             2          90725          18

   19             2          90727          19

   20             2          90729          20


Page                       Shape Bytes    Text Bytes

-----------------------    -----------    ----------

Scene 1                           0             0


Symbol                     Shape Bytes    Text Bytes

-----------------------    -----------    ----------

fire graphic                      0             0

asteroid graphic 1                0             0

ship graphic                      0             0

text your                         0             0

text lives                        0             0

text score                        0             0

text press                        0             0

text instruct                     0             0

text title                        0             0

Base square 2                    36             0

bgd grid                          0             0

Base square 1                     0             0

Base square 1 explode             0             0

External Symbols                  0             0

External Text                     0             0

newasteroid                       0             0

asteroid                          0             0

ship                              0             0

shot                              0             0

explosion                         0             0


any ideas about how to avoid this?


Cheers

Tobie



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