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Subject: Re: FLASH: Scenes should be AVOIDED???
From: jayse
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:36:36 GMT

Movie Clips Movie Clips Movie Clips...

Load Movie Load Movie Load...

I shall be chanting that all night -


thank you to everyone who responded! I shall change my way of doing things!

~ jayse

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gary <dgarystudiosatmpinet [dot] net>
To: flasheratshocker [dot] com <flasheratshocker [dot] com>
Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: Scenes should be AVOIDED???


>
>
>jayse wrote:
>
>> Marc Hoffman wrote:
>>
>> "This is one of several reasons why scenes
>> are best avoided except perhaps during an intermediate design stage, not
>> for the final .fla to be exported to .swf. "
>>
>> I'm confused.
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1. Should and entire site done in flash be just ONE long movie? with
links
>> to labels?
>>
>> OR...
>>
>> Should it be many different swf. files - different movies (one for each
>> scene)
>>
>> ?
>
>You should use several swf files and "load movie" only if the files are
large.
>That way the visitor isnt waiting
>for one huge swf.
>
>This technique can get quite complex however. Since monitoring swfs are a
must
>to see if they are loaded. That
>is if they are to comunicate to each other.
>
>I agree with Marc, do NOT use scenes unless your FLash is a movie and not
>interactive
>
>
>>
>>
>> 2. If it should be many swf. files - how does that work? I mean -
>> specifically with preloading - which I'd want to be happening while the
>> viewer is watching the previous movie.
>>
>> Thanks for ANY help you can give on this matter as I've been reading and
>> reading and reading and I think my mind is too tired to comprehend it
all.
>>
>> 8)
>>
>> ~ jayse
>>
>>
>
>Hiya Jayse,
>
>There is no real quik discription of the above technique, Effective
preloading
>techniques really depend on the content
>your streaming to the viewer.
>
>However this might help. Burn MC(movie clip) and "load movie" into your
head.
>I create almost _everything_ as a MC
>and simply have my MCs talk to each other. I also use "if frame loaded"
>routines if seperate levels are to talk to each other.
>When a different movie in another level completes its load it will tell the
>previous movie. The previous movie is now ready to comunicate with it.
>
>Not a direct answer like Im sure you expected, but the question was fairly
>general. Hope that gave some diection hoever.
>
>
>-DG-
>
>
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