What does this mean? "Minimize the Flash movie size by limiting the glyphs embedded in the movie" in sIFR3 to improve rendering speed What is the meaning of "limiting the glyphs embedded in the movie"?
View 1 RepliesHas any one experienced a crash when using "test movie" in Flash CS4 on Windows 7?For me, it started when I began working on an Actionscript 2.0 project. It happens every time I test a movie, then minimize the window.I have tried re-installing Flash, but the problem still remains. The weird thing is, it waits until I minimize the window. No other time.
Test movie --> Close it --> Minimize Flash --> Wait a second or two --> Crash
I have designed a Flash animation for a client who has asked me to also provide it in a format which can be used in a film he wants to produce in Apple Final Cut Pro. I assumed the best format would be QuickTime but whenever I export the Flash file in to QuickTime the quality of the film is awful - the graphics leave fragments of themselves behind as they move (if that makes sense?!) and the overall quality isn't very crisp.
View 2 RepliesMy app does the following:enumerate fonts installed on the clients machine, and populate a dropdown list with them present a s:TextArea with special characters (like äöü)update the TextArea's font family to the one selected in the dropdown After it updates, there seems to be three possible results: the correct glyph, a blank space, or a fallback glyph in a device font (seems to be _serif, though the CSS style is _typewriter). My goal is to programmatically detect whether a device font supports all the glyphs in a chosen user font.
I have tried getBounds on various children (to detect 0 width, etc.), getting info about atoms, and comparing fontFamily for a correct glyph against fontFamily for a blank or fallback glyph. For formatting changes that dispatch a UpdateCompleteEvent or CompositionCompleteEvent, i am always doing my checks after it completes.
In a project we use large flash FLA file with lots of graphic assets, but the actual data that is changed is just in a few symbols. Sometimes it is not very efficient to transfer the whole FLA file that comes up to 20MB now.
I was thinking about using Shared Libraries, but it seems that, even if you import external library, it still copies the whole assets into the destination file, but does not link it from external file. Consequently, size of the FLA file still remains the same.
Is there any way to split FLA files into few separate in order to minimise size of the most frequently updated file and keep all unchanged data in another file?
How to minimize the file size of a bitmap in flash/actionscript.
View 1 RepliesI have a webpage containing 2 DIV containers hidden using CSS. The site has a Flash Movie embedded. I want to render the content of these hidden DIV containers from within the Flash movie.I'm using CS4?
HTML
<div id="sectionone">content</div>
<div id="sectiontwo">content</div>
CSS
hide sectionone div and sectiontwo div
FLASH
Display sectionone within flash movie when requested
I want to add an animated .gif file to my movie. So I created a new symbol and then imported the .gif file to the stage. This created the symbol containing the animated .gif.I dragged the symbol onto the scene where I want it. However, the animation seems to play at a different speed (fps) than normal. So I changed the fps of the symbol (at bottom of Timeline where it says "fps"). But for some reason this changes the fps of the rest of the entire movie.
View 3 RepliesI am working on my first Adobe Flex application, and have a code section that appears to be running very slowly (but it does function properly!). CC_Output is a text control, all the other controls are checkboxes (CC, CC_Duration, etc.)[code]
View 3 RepliesIn a kind of image browser where navigation is done through keyboard's arrow keys, I get the case where the user keeps the finger pressed on the arrow key. There, the list scroll faster and the screenshot doesn't have time to draw that the next item is already called.
I can see that in that case the CPU goes from an usual 1% when browsing "gently"..to about 20% when leaving the arrow key pressed and raging through the list of images.
I was thinking to:
1) Force the scroll rate to max out at 10 items per second
or
2) Only show pictures if key downs are > 10fps
or
3) Find a function that would wait for the last image to be drawn before continuing in the list.
So, to summarize:
- how to skip drawing pictures if the list is browsed to fast...or
- how to force the script to wait for the current image to be drawn before passing to the next item...or
Here is the script part containing the PNG loader, I've the feeling that this is the place where such a "limiter" should take place:
Code:
MC_loader.loadClip(displayArray[masterindex]".png", "screenshot_mc.screenHolder_mc");
//
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I am wanting this to improve the initial download speed of the page. I have already added a Poster Frame to video's, however it still seems to be loading the video file and just autoplaying. Is there a way to NOT load the video file until the person hits play? This is the AS3 script I used...
import fl.video.VideoEvent;
myPoster.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie);
function showPosterFrame(event:Event):void { myPoster.visible = true;}
function hidePosterFrame(event:Event):void { myPoster.visible = false;}
function playMovie(event:MouseEvent):void { myVideo.play();}
[code]....
When I press command + option + enter, the graphics looks very good but when I look at the quick time mov I saved, its so bad. It's fine if I 'drag' the quick time window to the smallest but when I look at it in full screen mode, the picture is so bad... What can I do to improve the quality?
View 2 RepliesI have my flash document set up in the following way: On the main timeline I have my buttons that I want to play movie clips embedded inside a movie clip on the main timeline.However, when I click each different button, the current movie clip stops playing and then the movie clip corresponding to the button plays.
I want them all to be able to play at once. So for example you push button 1 and the alien plays, but half way through you could click button 2 and the alien clip would keep playing, but also the helicopter clip would begin to play as well.Here is the code I have so far:
building_btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, alien);
building_btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, helicopter);
function helicopter(e:MouseEvent):void {[code]......
just wondering what the best way to control the speed of a movie is. I have a movie clip that is text scrolling from right to left and it needs to go slower so that itïs readable. So I know I can just change the fps and/or make the motion tween a lot longer, but there must be a better way to do this with ac....?
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to minimize the size of my SWF, but I can't find the tools that I need. HI need a tool that will take my SWF (or .as files would work as well, I suppose) and deconstruct it, analyzing how many bytes each class contributed to the final SWF file size. I would like this analysis to occur for both 'built-in' Flash classes ('flash.util.*', etc), as well as my own hand-written classes. (Other languages, such as C, Java, OpenLaszlo, etc, provide this functionality in a straightforward manner, but I'm stumped with AS3). (Note that I'm compiling with CS3, but Flex SDK solutions are also welcome)
Armed with this information, I'll be able to identify which classes are contributing the most to file size, and optimize them as necessary. For example, Flash's Button class is a bit bloated for simple applications - this tool would help me realize the inordinate number of bytes the Button class is contributing and re-write a simpler Button class for my needs (which inadvertently, I've already done ).
Since I only need numbers, can I limit dynamically embedded fonts to only numerals, periods, dashes and special characters copied from the character map?
View 5 RepliesI've been building a project that is essentially a mashup style editor. You pick from a series of clips, arrange them in order, and then can play them back. Originally it was a series of FLVs that would play one right after another, one stops, next one starts, but this wasn't seamless. So I switched to embedded FLVs inside of SWF files.
Locally this performed better, the videos were more seamless, no gaps where the video disappears because the FLV isn't ready to play, but online it brings the flash movie to a crawl. In total I have 56 video files, either FLV or SWF. There are 4 "tracks" that play simultaneously. Each track is made up of multiple clips. I'm preloading the videos so they are ready for playback when the time comes. The videos are alpha transparent.
I'm using a lineseries chart, but it gets fairly slow to re-render when I add a new point when the total # of points is ~1200 points. Granted, this is running on a fairly slow PC (~600 MHz). Reading the Flex documentation on how to speed up rendering (turning off dropshadows, turning off filterData, etc...) doesnt seem to help. I bound my chart to an ArrayCollection (rather than the array I used before which I manually updated) and it doesnt seem to be any faster. Adobe's documentation seems to have me believe that the Chart looks only at what changed since the last time it was updated, but i'm only adding one point!
If their info is correct, why does it take significantly longer (5 seconds) to update one point when I have ~1200 points then when I only have 2 points (instantaneous)? FYI - When I add a new point to my ArrayCollection, I have to do a "AC.refresh()" to get the DataBinding to pick up the new data.
I have a movie that opens up full screen and load an external movie into it. No problem there but I want the loaded movie to keep its original size and not resize with the full screen movie. In the screenshot, you see how the yellow external movie loads into the fullscreen green movie. The white rectangle is only for size reference (photoshopped it in) and is not in the actual flash movies. The yellow movie is supposed to be 800x125 pixels but resizes with the fullscreen of the green movie.
View 1 RepliesI have a thumbnail scroller app built with AS3 on my website homepage. I have the class files but would like to know of any quick workaround to make the embedded Flash movie clickable without reworking the AS3 files. What I would like to do is if you click on a thmbnail or anywhere in the movie, the "portfolio" page loads. I asume this would use javascript?
View 1 RepliesI have created a flash header that has an embedded video and it will not stop looping.
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The Video is in the TV
It plays once with the sound then it loops without the sound it picks up the stop command on the second run.
I am trying to embedded an flv into a flash movie timeline that runs at 12fps.My source avi is 60 seconds in duration. However using cs3 video encoder with the frame rate set to 12 fps results in an flv that uses up 1440 frames of my timeline.In fact any frame rate selected always results in an flv of this frame length? Assuming that I need the flv to be 720 frames total (60 seconds * 12 frames), and not twice that duration as that would still have to be played at 24 fps. I undertand that there is a relationship to the original fps the movie was shot in (in this case 24fps) but will/does the encoder not produce an flv with the frame rate altered to match my timeline fps? or do you basically have to use a camera that shoots the original avi at 12fpsto get it to play in 12 fps timeline??
View 4 Repliestoday I'm trying to get the URL where my Flash movie is sitting on.
I found a similar question here, which was answered with a link to Flash's LoaderInfo method, but I'm not sure I'm using it correctly as the textField in my test movie here: [URL] does not display the URL
Updated! WORKING CODE
All I needed was this: stage.loaderInfo.url :)
package {
import flash.display.Stage;
[Code]....
I have an embedded flash movie that runs an AS function that runs a javascript function on the html page when you push a button. However, it only works in Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Is there a workaround for IE 6 & 7?
My javascript is:
Code:
Select all<script>
navArray = new Array();
navArray["home"] = "../index.aspx";
navArray["about"] = "../about.aspx";
navArray["contact"] = "../contact.aspx";
[Code] .....
My actionscript is:
Code: Select allimport flash.external.ExternalInterface;
function homeLink(e:MouseEvent){
ExternalInterface.call('navigate', 'home');
ExternalInterface.call('window.close()');
}
There is so many ways to improve the actionscript performance and reduce code size. Let share what tricks you can come up with.
View 1 Repliesdoes cached a bitmatp improve speed of vector object or bitmap object?
View 1 RepliesIs there a way to control the sound of an embedded flv in a flash movie? I haven't seen any tutorials on controlling the sound volume for an embedded video vs. netstream.
View 5 RepliesI have main timeline and then have a small movie clip in which there is a dynamic text box and my actionscript.
Code:
myVars = new LoadVars();
myVars.load("http://preview.domain.co.uk/inc/loadVars.php");
myVars.percentage
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but when I play the movie it doesn't work. However if I move the dynamic textbox onto the main timeline along with my actionscript it works.
I have my movie in the main timeline and then have a smaller clip in which there is a dynamic text box. In that smaller movie I have some actionscript
myVars = new LoadVars();
myVars.load("http://preview.domain.co.uk/inc/loadVars.php");
myVars.percentage
[Code]....
but when I play the movie it doesn't work. However if I move the dynamic textbox onto the main timeline it works.
I am using an embedded flash movie in my web page. I would like to show some alerts on the page when the movie has played for x seconds, pause the movie while the user views and dismisses the alert and start playing the movie again after that (or the user can press the play button, not important). The important parts being - the app being able to find out if x secs worth of movie has played, pausing the movie then and showing an alert. Is this possible using a php/javascript code within the web page? Or will I have to do this within the flash movie itself?
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