Transparencies Make Things Slower On Mac?
i've known for some time that having a lot of animations with transparent objects make things slower. the project i'm working on now is 750x550 and has transparent window selected on the publish settings so that the background of the html page will show through.
after testing several times on several different computers, everything seems to go fine. nothing slows down or anything like that. - that is until i tested it on my mac the next day. it must have gone 1/5th of the speed it took on a pc. i check on another mac at the office and it was slow as well.
i have tested multiple browsers as well on each machine and they all reveal consistent results... macs are slower than pcs. everything runs fine when the background isn't transparent though.
has anyone else noticed this? if so, is there any better way to get the same results?
your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Josh
FlashKit > Flash Help > Flash MX
Posted on: 10-24-2005, 10:39 PM
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