Flash :: Opinion On Preload Technique?

Need An Opinion
I don't have a bug or anything, I just wanted an opinion.

I am going to build a sitemap in flash, and was wondering, is Multidimensional Arrays the best way to do this? (Have the array name = the name of the section and the array values = the name of the pages in that section)

Reason I am thinking this would be best, is because I need to load a text file in to make up this sitemap, but loading over 14 in or whatever seems..... well.... silly

I'd appreciate any opinions on the subject...

Thanks in advance!

Dax

I NEED Your Opinion
Hi there,
I don't know if this is the forum to post this thread, if it's not I suppose the moderator is going to move it somewhere else...
This thread is to both thank everyone that has helped me in building my site (I'm not going to name them one by one because it would take ages and I could unvoluntarely ommit someone, you know who you are ) and to ask you all your opinion about it.

http://arquitectes.coac.net/baca

It is not finished yet and for now the only language available is English. We're re-structuring the contents and adding new options and doing a new 'make up' so there's more coherence among the colors used in the different sections.
You can either post replies to this thread or use the mail form in the site (I have a cgi script for it prepared but my server has trouble making it work..., so at the moment it will launch your mail program)

Hope you like it. Let me know all your opinions so I can improve it

I Need YOUR Opinion
What makes a flash-site, according to you, special & nice to watch. (good actionscript? nice animations? banners? lots of options? nice bitmaps? etc...) I want to have your opion about this, so i can built my site as good as possible! Thanks for your reply.

Opinion
I was wondering what is the best way to go about making a flash site. Is it better to make the whole site one movie on one timeline? Or is it a better idea to make every page a different scene? Or is there any other ways to develop a flash site?

Thanks

Your Opinion Please
Can you guys take a look at this site? Do you think that intro is just a static blurred pic -- then when moused over it comes into focus? Or is it an animation? Just curious. http://www.mbergin.com/

Thanks
Mark

Opinion ASP Or PHP
I am planning on upgrading my server.
Windows - ASP
Linux - PHP

I posted this tread to ask people's opinions on what they think is the best method of coding.

Anybody want to voice or so to speak their opinion???

Need Opinion
I am learning asc3 and loving it. I just ran into a problem as i tried to do a tutorial recently of where cards flip over and load random card design on them.

i constantly get this error. if someone can please verify my work and opinion and tell me where i made the mistake. I dont believe its in the code but the placement of the graphics but i need confirmation on it and also on where the error is:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at Card/settype()
at Memory/CardLoader()
at Memory()

Thank you and please see attachment

Need Opinion
Hello everyone,

Well i am sure this question and demand has been asked for about a 100 times..i HOPE your patient enough to read for one more time (thank you).

The good thing i know how to use flash 9 and 10 now very very well....and thanks to lynda.com for that and some books i bought as reference which did help i must admit. But i succeeded in knowing it well beyond the usual. (no not trying to glow as i am getting to the point of my flaw(s)).

I am trying to learn ASC3 and i did buy books and i did buy more lynda.com videos... below i will list what i got and i hope those here can inform me on which steps to take first from what i have or to view first..YES I KNOW everyone has an opinion and different strategy and understand thing quicker or slower...SO CONSIDER ME SLOWWW but once i grasp something its permanent and able to do wonders with it...do remember that i know nothing BUT flash so even the basics i dont know of actionscript 3

below are the videos i have admittance to view on lynda .com
(just follow the link please as its all in there and ignore the asc2 obviously)

* http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/m...ing.asp?sid=81

below is what i got as books:

*Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide by Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser

*Essential ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock

*ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith Peters

*ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Hands-On Training by Todd Perkins

*Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson

*ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University by Gary Rosenzweig

So now that you know of what i have and hope its enough..I must admit. MY QUESTION is: Unlike for learning flash i have no clue what i need to learn first or where to start..which book or video learning will put me on the map of knowing as3 to code myself...YES CODE MYSELF...

it's easy to copy and i can do that well trust me if need do some as3 trick for my animation or...BUT in the end copying doesn't mean you know anything and also doesn't mean you know how to debug it if you did not do it correctly...Its like i don't know when people use the term Boolean which in 3d max means totally something else (HA HA) and here it is a true false thingy but why and for what...like i want to know well enough if someone tells me to use the (int) instead of (number) variable i would understand why....what is an array or what is a root.

I really appreciate your time for reading this and sharing with me your wisdom. I am looking for help from anyone but give me a chance....

Thank you to all that viewed and responded

Need An Opinion Please
I am learning asc3 and loving it. I just ran into a problem as i tried to do a tutorial recently of where cards flip over and load random card design on them.

i constantly get this error. if someone can please verify my work and opinion and tell me where i made the mistake. I dont believe its in the code but the placement of the graphics but i need confirmation on it and also on where the error is:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at Card/settype()
at Memory/CardLoader()
at Memory()

PLEASE GO HERE TO GET ATTACHMENT OF MY FILES THAT I DID: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=190078

Thank you

From 1 Opinion To Another
Hey guys,

My name is Brent. I am a Flash web developer, graphic designer & web host based out of Michigan. This is just my opinion so I will understand if some of you may disagree but I think the best browser that displays flash content the best would have to be Mozilla Fire Fox www.mozilla.com you can download it free many of you probably already use it but I can't count the NUMBER of times that one of my web clients has contacted me in regard to their crappy IE , AOL Explorer, Netscape browsers telling me that the flash content isn't displaying correctly. I tell them to download Fire Fox and all problems go away. There is techniques you can use for BROWSER OPTIMIZATION but I don't specialize in that.

Take Care Brotha's & Sista's

Brent
Studio XI
www.studioxidesign.com

Best Way To Do This, In Your Opinion
I am stuck on the best course of action here.

I have got a index.swf file which contains a header and the navigation buttons, and these will remain the same throughout the website.
What i was hoping to do was to be able to use the index.swf file, and then load the other swf's into it with the following script on the button:

on (release) {
loadMovieNum("long.swf", 1);
}

Whilst this does do what i want it to do in that this layer comes to the front, but it covers the logo and navigation, therefore i have two options, the first would be to have the logo and navigation buttons on all pages, but the downside to that is that it increases the overrall website size.

The second option and my preferred option (if possible) would be to find some way of loading long.swf into index.swf but in the correct position so that the logo and nav buttons are still visible.

Can somebody please come back to me and tell me the best or most common way to handle this.

Thanks,

TB32

Need An Opinion Will Only Take A Second
can you just tell me that i really like a font and want to use it . i had downloaded it from another site. will my viewers will be able to see it or i have to use a device font ....

Need An Opinion Will Only Take A Second
do you know any webmail provider site such as zzn.com (must be freee)

I Would Like You Opinion
Hello there,

A few months ago I posted a thread regarding a weather application. I started, I didn't finished it, I re started, and got stucked. I started again and finally it seems I got it right. Since I'm just an amateur who uses flash in his spare time (and this is my first Flash application), I'm really curious to know what you think about the application structure and the coding rather than the UI. In this months I've had a better understanding of actionscript, but what I find al lot difficult is not how to use certain methods or objects, but how to put things together. You can have a preview here .
There is still a lot of work to do, like create the forecast and implement the errors messages. I imagine that you guys can get it done in a couple of hours, but for me it's not that simple.

Source

There is still something I don't get. like why is it so sloppy when I published it, and why sometimes the application won't load ( at least if you not refresh the page a couple of times).
I posted a similar thread on macromedia forums, but nobody cared about my little and simple app. I hope here it's not the same.

Note: The source contains the Codes to access the weather.com feed. I don't care if for, who knows what reasons, you'd like to keep the source, but please register at weather.com and get a new license. It takes just a couple of minutes and it's FREE!

Thanks for your time.

I Need Your Opinion
Hi, i am a mexican graphic designer, i've just finished my own portfolio website, and here is it.

I would like some feedback, please dont be so cruel!!!

Thnx

www.roycalvillo.com

Need Opinion From You All.........
Hello everyone,

Well i am sure this question and demand has been asked for about a 100 times..i HOPE your patient enough to read for one more time (thank you).

The good thing i know how to use flash 9 and 10 now very very well....and thanks to lynda.com for that and some books i bought as reference which did help i must admit. But i succeeded in knowing it well beyond the usual. (no not trying to glow as i am getting to the point of my flaw(s)).

I am trying to learn ASC3 and i did buy books and i did buy more lynda.com videos... below i will list what i got and i hope those here can inform me on which steps to take first from what i have or to view first..YES I KNOW everyone has an opinion and different strategy and understand thing quicker or slower...SO CONSIDER ME SLOWWW but once i grasp something its permanent and able to do wonders with it...do remember that i know nothing BUT flash so even the basics i dont know of actionscript 3

below are the videos i have admittance to view on lynda .com
(just follow the link please as its all in there and ignore the asc2 obviously)

* http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/m...ing.asp?sid=81

below is what i got as books:

*Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide by Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser

*Essential ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock

*ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith Peters

*ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Hands-On Training by Todd Perkins

*Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson

*ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University by Gary Rosenzweig

So now that you know of what i have and hope its enough..I must admit. MY QUESTION is: Unlike for learning flash i have no clue what i need to learn first or where to start..which book or video learning will put me on the map of knowing as3 to code myself...YES CODE MYSELF...

it's easy to copy and i can do that well trust me if need do some as3 trick for my animation or...BUT in the end copying doesn't mean you know anything and also doesn't mean you know how to debug it if you did not do it correctly...Its like i don't know when people use the term Boolean which in 3d max means totally something else (HA HA) and here it is a true false thingy but why and for what...like i want to know well enough if someone tells me to use the (int) instead of (number) variable i would understand why....what is an array or what is a root.

I really appreciate your time for reading this and sharing with me your wisdom. I am looking for help from anyone but give me a chance....

Thank you to all that viewed and responded

Tell Me Your Opinion About My New Homepage
Hi there,

I am working on a new flash homepage -my first one-.
Its not finished yet. Could you give me your opinion....

http://www.ebluehouse.ch.vu

Thanks a lot

adrian138

Please Give Me Your Opinion On What I Should DO?
Hello,

My boss has given wants me to create a input field which will match Variables has they type:

I know how to create a drop down menu by pulling records out of a database, but I need to know how to create a Input field, which would match what the user is entering as they type??

For ex.

the user is type in "Amer"

The Options are:

Todays Company
Tommorrow's Company
American's Comapany

Has they type it will bring American's Company where the user is typing.

Any thoughts?? Keep in mind that the drop down will have a NUMBER of records. I want to use flash,but I am not sure the best way to do this in flash???????

Thanks!!!!!!!

A.I. Bot, Please Give Me Your Opinion.
I have recently setup a A.I. bot on a future flash site. The bot will talk and navigate the wbesite for you, while the face tracks your mouse position and will smile or frown depending on the conversations. I want to know what your opinion of my idea is and also your opinion of the site itself (it has no content right now)

http://66.28.2.70/luna.html

Thank you very much.

MikeMadMan

Peoples Opinion
okay i just wanted some opinions(preferbly from some people experienced in flash) [ so basically no newbies like me.. thanks] for a Web Site i am making for my major project at school in year 12...

heres the site i have uploaded it
http://www.geocities.com/shads575/main.html
Click me

i have changed the button design about 4 times already and i might change them again... under 'Youth Fellowship' i have done 2 different buttons of what i am thinking i might change all the buttons to...

do you think i should leave the buttons the way they are... or yeh... thanks

Need YOUR Opinion About My Flash
Here is my flash, 'm still working at it verry hard and it should become a(n) intro/site (not sure yes)

http://users.skynet.be/am028560/sqs_v4.html

now, what do you pro's think that's the best way to let

POST YOUR INTRO'S HERE

Your Opinion: Mc's As Buttons
i just discovered the awesome possibilities you have with movieclips as buttons using invisible buttons!! *cheering*
so now, i just wanted to know is it in general better to do that? it doesnt seem too hard, maybe even easier cos u can use rollout and over animations in one mc and all that.
so i wanted to know your guys' opinion to that.
post away!

.chris

Opinion--Scenes
When making a full site with Flash, is it better (speed, file size, etc.) to use separate scenes for different areas within the site (portfolio, contact us, etc.) or just keep them on one huge timeline?

Just trying to learn "best practices" right from the start.

Also, if I have an image, say one that looks like a metal plate, and I want to through a quick glint over it (like the text effects that do the same thing using masks) how would I accomplish it? I know how to do it with text, but this is an image, and I can't really use it as a mask. I was thinking about using 3 layers, a mask, a glint "bar" with transparencies, and the top most layer containing the actual image. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Guph

Could I Just Get A Quick Opinion....
hey all
this is my first long flash vidoe that i really put effort into and i wuld like it if some people would download it real quick and tell me what they think about it. its not quite finished but all i need to add is an ending(if u have any ideas for that tell me too). i published it as a .gif cuz i think thats the smallest i can make it. if thats not a good thing to publish it as then just tell me and ill change it to whatever u recomend.
thx all

I Want Everyone's Opinion So Click Here (please)
Ok, when I posted before I only got one reply which made me kind of un-easy, so before I go spend $400 I would like to post a poll.

Give a really high rating if you really think that it's worth it to upgrade to DreamWeaver MX 2004. Of course a low rating if you don't think it's worth it.

Also, since I am only 14, if I bought to academic version would it be legal for me to use it on my churches website I'm building? Or is that considered "buisness" use?

3d Engine Opinion...
Hi everyone,

Ive got a 3d engine working (sort of).
http://members.aol.com/davllew/cube.html

I was originally going to code this to have a game running.
the problem is, im not sure how much the frame rate will handle (polygon wise).
the game im thinking of making would probably have at least 150 polygons being handled at any time.

do you reckon it would slow the frame rate to a hault?
anyone with 3d engine experience in flash with experience could help im sure

In Your Opinion Which Menu
in your opinion
what would be a good choice for a menu. for 100 plus picture/buttons

that is to say i have over 100 pictures that are buttons. whats the best way in your opinion to view them on a web page.

im thinking a scroller at the moment

ive posted this in the boardroom to so i can gain 2 different points of view

Programming Opinion
Programming opinion

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have a series of images that are being dynamically loaded. I am using an array to specify the path of each individual image. I want to make my program cycle through the individual items of the array and load each image randomly until every image is loaded. While this is going on, I am using a conditional to detect if certain keyboard presses are invoked. The keyboard presses are specific to each array item.
What are your opinions on how I should handle this keyboard event listener?

How should I go about coding the array of images to be in sync with each specific keyboard press, and be able to detect when each image has been loaded?

Thanks,
Sam

Give Me Your Opinion
I have created a Flash file, just give me ur opinion on it.

Your Opinion On These Designs
Hey all, What is your opinion on this design company:

www.flashlogodesign.biz

I'm thinking of having them design and animate a logo for me.

Thanks

Opinion Needed
We are doing a website where the client wants lots of flashy things going on all the time (no he wouldn't listen to reason and no he doesnt care if it's annoying) what I need an opinion on is whether you think a full flash website or an html webiste with flash bits is better.

So choices are again:
1. Website done completely in Flash
or
2. Website done in HTML with flash components.

Opinion: The Best Method
I am about to build a website that is going to be very graphic intensive (mostly the transitions/animations between sections of the site).

I am trying to figure out what is the best way to build the file(s). Normally I would just build each section as scene and go from there.

I am wondering if it would be better to build each section as a separate flash movie and when they change section launch them from a parent movie. In otherwords have "menu" movie that then triggers a different movie (from disk) depending on which menu item is clicked. This would allow some nice clean 'loading' screens and such but I am just not sure which is the best method. Keep in mind that my menu is within each section and that might cause duplication of code.

The transitions are going to be exported from Maya should I put them in as an exported movie or as frames in my flash movie? In the past I have done key frames, but I would think a movie export would be smoother.

Make any sense as to what/why I am asking? Got an opinion?

Opinion Of How This Is Made..
I've been curious for a while now of how this sites accordian navigation panels work

www.converse.de (once entering)

I have experimented with using masks on a timeline, having the mouseover/out expand/subtract the mask, and the neighboring images sliding either left or right accordingly, although this seems tedious.

Does anyone have any ideas on how they have achieved such smooth transitions from different states?

Also the cursor that can change to half one colour, half another when its mousover two different stages is also a real cool effect

An Opinion Is Needed.
So here is my dilemma. I have an opening sequence that leads to a preloader (i.e. an animation sequence that creates the load bar outline and the position of where the loading bar will begin) , My problem originally was that when the opening animation started and then moved to the loader frame containing the preloader percentage bar, the loading was already mostly done.

My First Solution: 2 separate SWF's -have an swf opening animation, then a loadMovie for the rest of the site which then allowed the preloader to show the entire load bar.

Whew...long winded, I know... the problem is that the flow from one swf to the other is bad...the opening swf actually dissapears for a split second before the "real" loading bar begins...
anyone have any suggestions how to meld these two swf seamlessly? (and yes i did use the word "meld")
or possibly im going about this all wrong

comments, ideas, threats...all welcome....

2nd Movie For Opinion
Here is the other movie.
I couldn't attach both to the post.
Thanks.

Graph Opinion
I would like to get people's opinions on what would be easier for me to do. I am working on a game/quiz where people will select a state from a US map, and have to answer a question about each state. There is going to be a fake opponent that they are competing with, and if the player gets an answer right a bar/graph will move up for them, but if they get it wrong it will move up for the fake opponent.
That is the part I would like opinions about. Would it be easier for me to have a mc that plays according to whether the right or wrong answer is selected or is the code to do that not too complicated?

I will probably go the route of having mc's that play depending on whether a right/wrong answer is selected because I am not very advanced as far as my scripting skills go. I just like to have some background before I dive into because everyone here always comes up with some good ideas that I would not have thought of.

Thanks.

Need An Expert's Opinion
Hi,

Recently I attempted to use a slide template in MX 2004 to create an instructional presentation for a client. The client wanted to have movies playing for each slide. I created a series of slides and inserted the movies using components. When I went to test, the application fell apart. The FLV movies would can out with no sound, crappy playback, lagged auto start times and all sorts of bugs.

When I insert a movie using components into a single scene and test of course it works great, but with the slides it collapsed.

Does anyone here know enough about Flash's architecture, especially in regards to slides, that they could explain to me why this happened?

Thanks,
Ty

2nd Movie For Opinion
Here is the other movie.
I couldn't attach both to the post.
Thanks.

Programming Opinion
I have a series of images that are being dynamically loaded. I am using an array to specify the path of each individual image. I want to make my program cycle through the individual items of the array and load each image randomly until every image is loaded. While this is going on, I am using a conditional to detect if certain keyboard presses are invoked. The keyboard presses are specific to each array item.
What are your opinions on how I should handle this keyboard event listener?

How should I go about coding the array of images to be in sync with each specific keyboard press, and be able to detect when each image has been loaded?

Thanks,
Sam

Screens Your Opinion
I'm in a flash class, and we are using Screen, which until now I have never used... How many of you use Screen for Flash based websites?

Preloader Opinion
When making a preloader (for a website), is it best to have it in the begining of the movie, and have the entire website start on the frames after it?

Or

Is it better to have two seperate files where the preloader will load the website externally?

Opinion On My First Site
Hey all. I am getting close to completing my first flash site- is has taken me quite a while. I have messed around in flash the last year but just tutorials and stuff like that. Anyway, Its for a band that came through the recording studio I work at. I would like any constructive criticism from you experiened folks. Remember its my first one so don't be too harsh. I have learned quite a bit after investing in flash and actionscript bibles. There are still links here and there I am wrapping up and audio is not complete either. Anyway have a look and let me know what you think. I will be going live with it in a week or so on their site- right now I have it posted on my site.
http://www.transitlabs.com/keilahpreview.html

Mike

Would Like An Opinion From The Wise Ones
Great leaders of the art of FLASH , I come to humbly to request your opnions on some work I have recently done.I have been a student at the art of flash for only 3 months.Unfortunately I have no masters to show me its many ways , so I have had to meditate and learn on my own.I have produced a small intro and would like to know from you ,if with the right training I have a future in this , because I am becoming very fustrated at my lack of producing something that is commercialy viable and make a name for myself.Check it outgolfstix