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How To Fix "wiggling" Images?


I need help figuring out why images in a movie I've created "wiggle" and and are "jumpy" when viewed on certain computers.

I've created a 2.6MB Flash MX movie consisting of a voice "narration" and photo images that are animated to alpha up and down, appear to "fade" to black and white, up to color, "dissappear" into masks, etc.

Because the file is so huge, I published it with a projector so I could put the whole thing on a CD. I also uploaded it to my server so that folks with DSL or faster connections can access it from the web. With DSL, it's not a bad wait, and I put a preload on it so that once it downloads it plays all the way through without pausing.

On my PC w/ Win2k and a dial-up connection, it plays perfectly on either browser from the Web and from the CD I burned. Same thing with a friend's PC off the Web w/ DSL. However on another PC with Win 98 (and dial-up), the images jump and "wiggle" within themselves as they appear. They do this throughout the movie and from both the CD and off the Web. The same CD plays fine on my machine using the projector I put on it.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Needless to say, I want it to be able to play smoothly regardless of the person's set-up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!




FlashKit > Flash Help > Flash MX
Posted on: 08-01-2002, 08:47 PM


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Robert Penner Easing And Wiggling
howdy peeps,

alrighty, got this far:


Code:
newDepth = 1;
_root.bar.buttons.leaf2.onPress = function() {
startDrag(this);
// constantly wiggle the leaf somehow as long as its held with mouse
}
_root.bar.buttons.leaf2.onRelease = function() {
_root.bar.reverse = true;
stopDrag();
//move the leaf back to its original point with easing
if (eval(this._droptarget) == _root.target) {
newDepth++;
var h = link.createEmptyMovieClip("holder"+newDepth, newDepth);
h.loadMovie("/gallery/IMG01.jpg", "_root.holder"+newDepth);
preLoader(h);
}
}


the above works k, next tasks are those in bold in the comment lines above, ive downloaded robert penners easing quotations, id like to use his easing back one :


Code:
class com.robertpenner.easing.Back {
static function easeIn (t:Number, b:Number, c:Number, d:Number, s:Number):Number {
if (s == undefined) s = 1.70158;
return c*(t/=d)*t*((s+1)*t - s) + b;
}
static function easeOut (t:Number, b:Number, c:Number, d:Number, s:Number):Number {
if (s == undefined) s = 1.70158;
return c*((t=t/d-1)*t*((s+1)*t + s) + 1) + b;
}
static function easeInOut (t:Number, b:Number, c:Number, d:Number, s:Number):Number {
if (s == undefined) s = 1.70158;
if ((t/=d/2) < 1) return c/2*(t*t*(((s*=(1.525))+1)*t - s)) + b;
return c/2*((t-=2)*t*(((s*=(1.525))+1)*t + s) + 2) + b;
}
}


... 1) problem is which part of this do i use, and how do i put it in my document?
2) second thing is can someone advise on how to store the leaf Mclips position (x+y) before the drag function so that it may be "put back" with easing adter the user has then released it/dropped it onto my target clip?
would it be something like var place = _root.bar.buttons.leaf2._x && _y ?? and then after it has been dropped then go perhaps something like place; ??

please could someone advise me on these issues?

thanks a lot

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