Re: FLASH: Davo's Flash tip of the day.(#12)

[Frank Mamone]

I was just wondering if you have a website where you house all your tips. It

would be a valuable resource for newbies like me.



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From: David Gary <

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Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 2:06 AM

Subject: FLASH: Davo's Flash tip of the day.(#12)



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>Hiya FLashers,

>

>Have alot of graphics in the first few keyframes of your movie and alot of

empty

>

>frames that follow giving room for "pausing" or animated graphics? Notice

that

>the more the empty keyframes behind a graphic the larger the swf file

becomes?

>

>If you need "time" or a "pause" after animations during your movies, but

>dont want to double the swf size, a good answer might be a "blank frame"

Movie

>Clip. Simply create your animated symbol(preferably as its own MC) and a

"stop"

>action keyframe after the animation. At the stop frame add a Movie clip

with

>nothing but empty frames(the more the frames, the longer the "pause").

>At the end of the "blank frame" movie clip add a "tell target"=

_level0/"goto

>next frame" On the maintimeline where you have the "stop" action keyframe

and

>the blank MC, right after it place a "play" action keyframe. THis way, the

main

>timeline stops where all your graphics sit and when the blank keyframe

movie

>clip finishes its run it with start up the maintimeline again without

increasing

>the file size.

>

>You can use it over and over down the timeline where you need it instead

>of extremely long timelines.

>

>Note: If you have movies loaded in different levels then you need to

specify

>in "    _level?   "  (Quotes not needed).

>

>I remember in the past someone asking how to "pause" a Flash movie.

>

>HTH,

>

>-DG-

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