RE: FLASH: Larry's site

[Marc Hoffman]

At 02:19 AM 4/29/99 -0700, you wrote:

>Speaking of crowded libraries..is there any way to have folders within a

>library or to have a couple different ones FOR THE SAME MOVIE.  I don't

>think this is possible but I thought I would give it a shot.  If it is not

>possible it would be one of the best added features for flash 4 -library

>file system.


Yes, it would be helpful, David. But you can establish a naming convention

that will sort your symbols. David Gary suggested beginning all movie clip

names with mc, for example.  For my own purposes, I sometimes want things

grouped by symbol type, but other times there's another grouping that may

make more sense. For example, if I have a lot of similar movie clips that

each tween a different text symbol, I might name the text "text01,"

"text02," "text03," and the movie clips "textmc01," "textmc02," etc.  This

puts the two types near enough to one another, but separate enough that I

won't waste time opening a mc when I want a text symbol.


I feel that good planning in Flash should include a heirarchy of symbols

that are named systematically, not only for ease of finding them in the

library but also so that, months later, you can look at the library and get

a glimmer of the underlying structure.  Frankly I'd rather scroll through a

single library than sift through multiple folders, just so long as the

library symbols are intelligently named. Using well-ordered, well-labeled

layers, frame labels, and frame comments are similarly important to the

Flash planning process.



Marc Hoffman

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Play a virtual marimba at: <www.dartfrogmedia.com/dartfrog> (featured 

in the book Flash 3 Web Animation by Ken Milburn).

Flash3 samples: <http://www.jps.net/dartfrog/sampler>.


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

To UNSUBSCRIBE send: unsubscribe flasher in the body of an

email to

list-managershocker [dot] com

.  Problems to:

ownershocker [dot] com

N.B. Email address must be the same as the one you used to subscribe.

For info on digest mode send: info flasher to

list-managershocker [dot] com