RE: FLASH: Matt Powells and .swf file performance

[Matthew Powell]

Holy cow, two Matt Powells on one list. Is there room for the both of

us? ;)


Hi guys, I'm relatively new to flash and this list, so forgive me if

this is quite a FAQ. 


I have written a couple of movies, and never really had any speed

probelms. However just recently I made a web page using flash which has

a couple of large text-only symbols (I made them symbols because I fade

them in and out in various ways).


Anyway, it all runs beautifully whilst in the flash editor. I enable

buttons and frame actions and it runs like a dream. 15fps hands down. As

soon as I 'Test Movie' or 'Export Movie' and run it in anything, the

scenes which involve movement of the large text symbols or any sort of

manipulation of them slows to about 1 fps!! Is this normal? I would have

thought that the compiled version of the movie should _increase_ in

speed if anything? Are the .swf players that much slower than the flash

editor?


Any help/suggestions appreciated. 


Cheers,

Matt


--

"love is a device invented by bank managers to make us overdrawn"

    - Arnold Rimmer

Matthew_Powelloz [dot] sas [dot] com

Associate Consultant

SAS Institute Australia, Sydney



-----Original Message-----

From: Matt Powell [

mattbreak17 [dot] com (mailto:mattbreak17 [dot] com)

]

Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 10:18 AM

To:

flashershocker [dot] com

Subject: Re: FLASH: displaying movie problems-HELP!!!



Kristen,


>David, thanks!  But, I do not have the .swf file embedded in HTML.  I

have

>a login page

>that links right to the .swf file.  And the dreaded blue strip is

there!

>I am assuming it

>is part of the movie, but why  I don't see it in my .fla file is a

mystery

>to me.

>  It is a 640 X 480 movie.  When I test the movie, there is a blue

strip

>(the background color)

>> > that is about 1 inch wide on the left side of my movie.   It gets

>>larger as I resize

>> > the player or browser window


Is your browser window at the same aspect ratio as your movie?  If the

horizontal and vertical dimensions of your movie are different than

those

of your browser window, you will get bars in the color of the

background.


M




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