Taking The LAG Out Of The Movie
http://www.mannymedia.com/mulfolio
is the site portfolio im working on...
in the portfolio... the motion is laggy...
the bandwidth profiler says its using 34 KB...
is that whats making it lag.... if so, how do i bring that down?
nothing is animating when the folio comes on in the site...
http://www.mannymedia.com/mulfolio/folio.htm is how fluid the movements is supposed to be...
THANK YOU MILLIONS IN ADVANCE... kind of a tight deadline to...
-manny
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Posted on: 05-17-2004, 12:59 AM
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ActionScript Code:
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lidos = getBytesLoaded();
restantes = total-lidos;
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In the project that I'm working on, I have under a mask (about 500x200) a movieclip with 4 pictures that are motion tweened and in the end of the mc some text motion tweened.
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t.icon.onRollOver = blurX;
t.icon.onRollOut = out;
t.icon.onRelease = released;
}
}
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{
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home.tootip
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}
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{
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}
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{
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trace(s);
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*/
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Thanks
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================================================== ==========================================
Basically I have 6 Layers
RedButton
Blue Button
Green Button
OrangeButton
Text
Actions
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Does anyone know how to take a screen shot? Also can you take a screen shot of anything on the web or just your own?
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Thanks in advance
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ive sent published flash animations from my home computer to the school computers so i can put them on my website. I transferred the .html files but they are taking too long to load.
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What do I do???
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I was wondering, if you have a lot of layers will it take up more space and make the movie slower to load?
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You know in the tutorials on Flashkit, how you guys take a picture of the screen as is for a demonstration? How does one do this, capture a still image of whatever object (ie. dialog box) is on the screen. Just curious? Please answer
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