Re: FLASH: No more demo FLAs

[Branden Hall]

Hey, just the fact that you would ask, would be more than enough for me in

most cases...  :-) I'm pretty easy going like that...  credit in the code is

fine... and I understand aestetically why its need sometimes.  Shoot.. I was

looking on a site a while back and saw a really kick ass demo in flash...

that the guy was measuring the distance between any two points on the

screen..  I wanted to see how he did the square root so I snagged the FLA

and took a look in the code, and bam there it was on the first frame..

thanks to Branden Hall for the square root code...  it made my day! :-)


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software


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

From: Rick Koch <

rrcominccris [dot] com

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To: <

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Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 8:54 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: No more demo FLAs



And now from the designer's point of view (who REALLY needs the help

you've been so gracious to give).


Precious few designers, and more importantly, clients, are keen on the

idea of having to add a graphic, or a blurb, or frankly anything that's

not in the "style manual", so to speak, for that particular site they're

developing.  I've even had client's ask me to take my OWN credit off of

the bottom of the pages I've designed for them!


My point is, can inclusion of a credit to you be in the code rather than

on the visible "surface" of the page?  After all, anyone who wants to

see how something is done (or God forbid, try to steal it) is going to

go to the code anyway.


I wouldn't think of using your work without your permission.  I've asked

permission from Mr. Moock, Mr. Croteau, and probably you in the future.

But I would probably scrap an entire idea if I were forced to alter a

page design in order to accommodate a credit visually.


I, for one, would be more than willing, even happy to credit you 'til

the cows come home' in the code - a logical place for it anyway. People

like me have the most to lose by your decision since your work - and the

discussions that follow it on this list - are, hands down, the best way

for programming-ly challenged people like me to ever learn it.


Just a thought. What do you think?


Rick K.




Cheri Harder wrote:

>

> Can you help us, here, Branden.

SNIP

> The point I'm trying to get at here, is WHERE does this "obviously it's

ok"

> change to "obviously it's NOT ok"   Does the next guy have to say "1 + 3 =

> 4" ??  This is an honest question and I'm NOT trolling, here.  :-)  I

really

> don't know the answer.

>

> Like, the only way to "drag" a mask layer is to fake doing so, by

> tell-targetting the underlying layer to move in the opposite direction of

> the drag.  Now, I learned that on this list and have intention of using it

> in a paying contract.  I didn't "copy any code" as it were, I just read

the

> eMail with the explanation, but looking at my result, how would anyone

know

> that I didn't copy?  This is the only way to accomplish the end result,

and

> it might very well look like I copied someone's code, you know?


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