Improving Flash Slideshow?
Aug 12, 2009
So I have made a basic slideshow on flash for a website. Nice but simple, 3 images fading in and out. But I want to make a slideshow that moves either vertically or horizontally, but most likely at an angle. I also want some text to either fade in or move as well. So I have a few questions.1) What is the best way to get th pictures to move at an angle? I have read some xml options for editing in dreamweaver, can't seem to find one for moving the picture.I would imagine you have to edit it in flash? Yes I'm new to flash!2) I take it you edit the text in flash, could it be dynamic text and what is the best way to move it?
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Apr 26, 2011
I am working on a large project and I would like some advices about improving the rendering performance when scrolling some content.I have a large sprite with a lot of content that I need to scroll and the problem that I am encountering is that when scrolling this big sprite, the rendering of the Flash Player seems to slow down and the movement is choppy.
I wrote a custom scrollbar class that simply updates the target sprite y or x properties on an enter frame event.The large sprite that I am scrolling mainly contains other sprites that have drawn shapes, loaded bitmaps and text fields.
Considering that I am simply moving the sprite, there are no other animations happening, nor other intensive processes at the same time, I do not think that it should be that resource intensive as to slow down the Flash Player that much. What can I do to improve the performance when scrolling the sprite ?(Just to give a rough approximation, the sprite that I am scrolling contains around 20-30 sprites with drawn shapes, 2-5 loaded bitmaps, 5-10 text fields.)
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Nov 25, 2010
I have an html website that displays still photographs contained in a swf built in flash. I refer in particular to the images in the rectangle window on the right. [URL]As you can see the swf starts with a % preloader. The images are fairly high resolution, 14 in total (each embedded into movie clips and not dynamically loaded)I just wish to know if there is a way of SPEEDING up the time it takes for the swf to load and open in the web page, to aid users with a slower connection.I understand that if my host server is reaonably fast (which I believe it is) then the problem lies with the users connection speed, but IS THERE ANY ADD ON ACCELERATOR or CODING I can apply from my side of things ?
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Apr 26, 2011
rendering performance when scrolling some content. I have a large sprite with a lot of content that I need to scroll and the problem that I am encountering is that when scrolling this big sprite, the rendering of the Flash Player seems to slow down and the movement is choppy. I wrote a custom scrollbar class that simply updates the target sprite y or x properties on an enter frame event. The large sprite that I am scrolling mainly contains other sprites that have drawn shapes, loaded bitmaps and text fields.
Considering that I am simply moving the sprite, there are no other animations happening, nor other intensive processes at the same time, I do not think that it should be that resource intensive as to slow down the Flash Player that much. What can I do to improve the performance when scrolling the sprite? (Just to give a rough approximation, the sprite that I am scrolling contains around 20-30 sprites with drawn shapes, 2-5 loaded bitmaps, 5-10 text fields.)
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Oct 29, 2009
I'm having some performance issues in certain areas of a flash game Im making.
Here's the situation: I have big movieclip containing a map that can be scrolled and scaled. There are some pannels with a bunch of MC buttons, controls, etc. on the right side of the stage. These are seperate from the map and stay in the same place.
Everything runs fine untill the large map is zoomed in and/or scrolled such that the right side buttons and stuff are overlapping them map. Then the framerate jumps down from a nice smooth 30 fps to about 3 fps while the map is moving. There are no issues with the map moving when they don't overlap.
Now the thing is, is that's there's no real interaction between the buttons and the map. No transparency or anything, in fact I'm perfectly happy with the map dissapearing behind a side pannel. There are only about 3 pannels that the screen drawing routine would have to worry about, as all the buttons rest on top of the pannels, so why is my performance taking such a hit?
(Hmmm. Actually I do have a lot of transparency, but each is on top of a solid background, and none interact with the map.)
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Nov 12, 2009
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lineStyle(..)
moveTo(...)
lineTo(...)
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Nov 6, 2011
So i'm building a plugin system for my game, and i need to know actively what objects each plugin wants to use. For this, i have made a simple String interpreter. What it can do so far is separate id's and get whether a required input uses all of that kind.
my input format is like this:
Code:
IA:[param];IA[param];NN
IA is the index of all objects matching the parameter to the right of it. A is replaced by A if you want all those objects with the ID of param, or a number for a specific index.:[] tells the interpreter that what is inside the ['s is the param.the param is the string identifier that it looks for when finding objects.NN is the end sequence. this tells the engine that it doesn't need any more params.so say i had a plugin that uses the string
Code:
I2[player];IA[world];NN
the engine will loop through all objects with the ID "world" using them as the second param for the plugin's behavior, and the first will always be the 2nd "player" in the list.I can currently detect whether it wants all of a certain parameter, and what the parameter is. Now, i need to be able to find the index each param requires if it is not all. And i've tried multiple ways of doing this, but none so far have worked. What method would i use? Also, if you see anything that would kill performance in the interpreter, i would love to know, as this is called every frame.
My current code is a class with static methods called StringInterpreter, with the below code:
Code:
package Utils
{
public class ScriptInterpreter
{
[code]...
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Nov 5, 2002
Notice the animated "I"s in the top right... this is an MC with different instances of an I with a code in each one that animates it then resets it at a random size and alpha.If you scroll over the main menu buttons of the site and watch the animation sometimes it pauses for a bit. I have even removed many of the "I"s I had origonally and it still slows up a bit. This became more noticable when I added sound to the menu buttons.
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Aug 21, 2010
I am making a flip book in flash. I am using swf files as individual pages. User have the option to print pages. I am converting the swf into a btimap using bitmap data but when I print the test is not clear and all pixelated. Is there any way to improve the printing quality of pages?
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Jan 7, 2011
I have a program in which I am running a number of for loops which are doing a number of different things.I pull in data from an xml file and then step through that data to dynamically create arrays, populate the arrays, and create and modify movie clips.
The program I'm building is similar in scope to one I developed in Director many years ago, and in that environment we had to actually put breaks in using timers to ensure that the data would be processed and that the system wouldn't choke.
What I'm seeing with this flash version of the application is similar and I suspect the same. Basically, when navigating from the frame where the scripts are processed to the frame where the movie clips are displayed, there are times when it works perfectly and times when things are out of whack. I put in a 5 second delay (arbitrarily) to see if this would resolve the issue and on my system at least it does. But I need some advice on coming up with a real solution.
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Nov 6, 2011
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May 27, 2011
I am using a custom Flex skin to create an active blur/frosted glass effect on the background of floating Panels, TitleWindows, and other containers (similar to http:url....). There is a background image in the Application skin, and potentially any number of other components above and below the active blur component. Here's some relevant code within the skin:
public static const BLUR_FILTER :BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(16, 16, BitmapFilterQuality.HIGH);
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Feb 6, 2008
I have created a pie preloader(preloader.zip) which is working fine. Same preloader I am trying to incorporate in a xml based slideshow(slideshow.zip) to show image loading process but some how I got stuck. I am new to flash. Suggestions are welcome.
1. How to solve the problem of preloader2. Is it possible to integrate everything in a movie clip (including AS). I mean no AS on main time line but inside the movie clip. It would be much easier then to to create multiple slideshows by duplicating mc and changing the xml file.
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May 29, 2008
i have a question about text in a slideshow. i know how to make a basic photo slideshow with external images. but now what i want to do is add 4-5 paragraphs of text next to each photo (with possible scrolling). the text will be different on each photo.
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I'm devloping some library classes for flocking/steering behaviours on large numbers of objects (2000+). I'm finding that at < 500 instances, performance is reasonable. As the numbers increase, framerate bogs down.
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Nov 4, 2009
I have created a slideshow based on the template for slideshow provided by Flash and some other blogs posts i have found.I have a layer with a picture on consecutive frames.I have another later that has just my text to display always.I have created another layer called Buttons and in the first keyframe i typed stop(); And added buttons by draging and dropping <back button and > foward button. I used script: for the back button [code] I have gotten them to work if you hit the button, it changes to the next picture.I want the pictures to continously play and i want to add a Pause/Play button .If you hit the pause it will stop and then you can resume the slideshow by hitting the button again which will be a Play button. I cannot #1 get the show to just move on its own (i guess i have to add additional frames to each photo?)
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Nov 25, 2009
The slideshow template that comes with Flash 8 is okay but I would like some more. I have google on the internet but it is all spam sites and people wanting to sell me programs to make slideshows.
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Apr 9, 2008
I am referring to the following slideshow tutorial at [URL]
Just curious to know if there is a way to play vertical and horizontal images in that slideshow, that would tweak the size of each image automatically.
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Apr 30, 2009
I've implemented the xml flash slideshow on my site. In the <caption> you can add a description for the photo and it populates in the movie, but I would like to know if anyone knows how to add a link in that section?How can I hyperlink text within that section?
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Jul 26, 2009
i am relatively new to flash and actionscript 3 but i have been recently making a website and i have got to a stage where one page is pulling in SWF's via an XML document. There are left and right arrows which load up the next/previous SWF. The right arrow works fine, it loads the next one up and then due to some AS3 code when it gets to the end it loops back around. The left arrow goes back a frame until it comes to the beginning and it wont loop to the end. Below is a copy of the code that i am using. I am aware that i need to create the event listener for the arrow and i am fine with that, its just the function to go with it that i am struggling with.
[Code]...
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Jan 22, 2010
I found this program called Flash Slideshow maker professional and it is very easy to put together etc. I try to add it into dreamweaver but when I try to select the Go Live button in dreamweaver its blank instead of my flash slideshow.
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Oct 18, 2010
I'm making a picture-slideshow with xml and Flash AS2. The thing is, i really want a play and pause button in it, and iv tried to do that with setInterval.[code]Now, the weird thing is, the trace does work, and gives me the good output: 10, 11, 12, 13 etc. etc. but the external images dont go further... (i do have the first image, but it doesnt go to the next images)When i remove the var Interval, so that it doesnt repeat, it does work I also attached the .fla file.
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May 26, 2009
I am doing a slideshow in Flash. With AS 2, I would create frame labels for each slide with a stop action on each one in the timeline and a button underneath the background with the following script:
on (keyPress "<Right>") {
gotoAndPlay("2");
}
The keyboard right arrow (and left arrow) would move the slideshow forward and backward. I had another button for backward.I'm doing one in AS 3 now (dictated to me) and this script isn't working.
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Nov 9, 2009
I have created a flash slideshow, where the slide will enter the stage from the left via a motion tween. Once the tween finishes and the symbol is in place, I want the slide to be clickable. I created an invisible button to go over each slide, and put these buttons on their own layer.Then I created an actions layer and put in this code:[code]It worked fine on the first button, but when I attempted to add a second button (only changed the parts in red to reflect different instance and link), it told me it was an error due to a duplicate code.
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Nov 12, 2009
I am trying to create a "slideshow" in flash CS4 and I have set it to fade out one image is it fades in another (using alpha) for about 10 - 15 images.However, I want to add a "border" to my slideshow, that stays there throughout the entire process without it fading in and out along with the pictures.
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Dec 14, 2009
I want to create a flash video that contains a photo slideshow,like in this linkI am not knowing where to start.
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Jan 2, 2010
i've made a flash photo slideshowand im wondering if there is anywayto gradually zoom in on a picture while the slideshow is playing.
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Jun 22, 2010
I'm new to Flash and I need to learn how to do a slideshow with exactly the same features as can be found in this link: [URL]. Just like at the link above, it needs to play through the slides automatically once the page is loaded, each slide needs to link to a specific URL, and I need controls similar to the boxes at the bottom so the viewer can click on any specific slide they wish to view (I'd like to have numbers in the boxes though). The transitions don't have to slide across like this. If a fade is easier, that would be fine.
Actually, I thought I'd be able to do this fairly easily with Flash Catalyst, so I updated to Adobe CS5 Design Premium. I found that Flash Catalyst can be used to create a slide show like this, but unfortunately it won't play automatically when the page loads and the viewer has to manually click through the slides, which is not what I need. I could be wrong, but from what I've read, I need Flash Builder to add code so the slide show will play automatically if I create it in Flash Catalyst.
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Aug 11, 2010
I have this flash slideshow on my that was created using a 3rd party software. I'm trying to find out does anyone know of 3rd flash creator that creates a slideshow such as this one.I'm referring to the flash that's located in the bottom of the screen
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