RE: FLASH: Re: How to combine 2 .swf into 1 swf?

[Len Harrison]

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> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 5:51 PM

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> Subject: FLASH: Re: How to combine 2 .swf into 1 swf?

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> Dear all,

> I've posted these questions a few days ago but so far didn't see any reply

> yet, just wondering are these problems too difficult to resolve

> or there is

> no answer at all.

Bit of a challenge, that! I'm sure others will answer as well, possibly with

a bit of grumbling. Actually these are not difficult questions at all. You

probably slipped through the cracks of the past few days because these

particular questions have been asked and answered many times.


[deletia]

> Anybody from Macromedia out there?? Please enlighten me.

>

> TIA.

>

> Regards

> Lynn C.

[...Previous from LC:]

> Hi everybody,

> Here are some newbie questions again, hope someone can help.

>

> 1. I've developed two separate shockwave flash files which contain some

> animation and interactivity but now I wish to combine these 2 flash files

> into one file and this file will contain two options in its main menu:

> Option 1 - when click, link to flash file no. 1

> Option 2 - when click, link to flash file no. 2

>

There are at least three ways to do this. The best way is usually to put

your menu system in Flash on the main timeline. Then, depending on the size

of your secondary movies, you want to drop them on the main timeline as

either movie clips or .swf files. In a simple case like this, with only two

clips and something to switch them in and out, you are best served by

turning your flash files into movie clips. First insert a blank keyframe at

the very start of each flash file (1&2). I'll let you figure out how to do

that. Make the action on that frame a "stop". Make the last frame of each

movie clip jump back to the clip's first frame.  Use a telltarget in the

same frame that targets _level0 and tells it to goto the label where you

want your menu system is set. Then select all frames across all layers and

do a copy frames. Create Symbol type movie clip and paste frames into the

first frame. Do this for both files. Open their library windows. Drag the

clips onto the timeline of your menu movie.


Give each clip an instance name in the definition tab of the symbol

properties dialog. Make the action on your menu buttons telltarget to the

instance names. The telltarget instruction to each movie is simply "play".

You might want to insert an empty frame after the buttons so your menu goes

away while your file 1 and file 2 clips play. Just send the main timeline to

the next frame and let it stop there. The movie clip will bring up the menu

again when it finishes playing.


Use the same method for embedded movies (.swf files). The third approach is

to embed your files 1 and 2 in separate Web pages and use a goto URL

<filename.html> to bring them up.


...


> 2. Is there any way to make the tempo on certain frames move faster or

> slower? For e.g. certain part of the animation should move slower in frame

> 1-30 but move faster in frame 31-60.



The simplest way to do this is to just pad the places where you want slow

animation with blank frames, assuming you are using tweening for your

animation. Reduce the number of frames to speed it up. If you have defined

each frame of your animation as your keyframes you will have to add,

duplicate or remove keyframes to accomplish this, although you might be able

to stretch things out with tweening if you have made your animated objects

symbols and kept them on separate levels from each other.


> Any suggestions will be appreciated. TIA.

>

> Lynn C.

>


There are you answers, Lynn.


Now, everybody else who's read or written this in one form or another 50

times now, wouldn't it be a good idea to supplement John C's excellent site

with a FAQ? It would be nice to say "RTF <url> questions 1 and 7" instead of

"RTFM", investing bandwidth in lamenting newbie questions, or respecifying

the roundness of a wheel, which is my own inclination. Or does such a thing

already exist and I missed it?


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

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