speed question

[disfasia]

I have made the following site:

http://www.disfasia.net/djoharu.html

It takes a long time to load. How do I minimize the weight of this file?

Thank you for any help you might lend me.

 

[coldfused]

could be alot of things..one thing man if your taking some constructive critizism..that site is very confusing to me..buttons real jumpy..no hit stages on your text links..

but for the load time..how are you calling the sound..is it in the movie or are you loading externaly?.are the pics you brought in for those little buttons actually that size or are they bigger and you reduced the size in flash?..

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[disfasia]

The pics are reduced in Flash. Also, I have the text in my links as a button, but every time in Flash that I turn text into a button, the hit space is miniscule: how do I change this? and the sounds are loaded with the fla...should I load them separately?

thanks

 

[oldnewbie]

Your picture's original sizes are yet not 16 inches * 16 inches bitmaps, are they?
For your text buttons, just draw a filled rectangle (any color) in the hit state (it will remain invisible!)... Should be the size of the whole area occupied by the text. This will be the new hit area, rather than just the characters themselves.
As for sound (didn't hear any music!), it's up to you. If you want to get something fast on the screen, you should stream the sound, or load it on request... That's probably what's causing the main delay.

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

[disfasia]

Thanks for the help. There is sound in one of the buttons (in the screen below that opens, by pressing on the artists' names)...Also, I wanted to know how to stream the sound? And how do I load it on request?

And no the original pics are about three inches by three inches...Is this too big a reduction?

Thanks again for your help!

 

[disfasia]

I need more help with the above site. I have complex buttons for the simple reason that I do not know how to write a command that will close a button IF it is open, if it is closed, then I need no action to happen.

How can I do this?

Thanks.

 

[disfasia]

I forgot to mention that button is on the mail level but activates _root.mc . Thus I want to design a scrollout action on this button that will activate _root.mc frame x if _root.mc frame y is loaded.

help!

thank you all!

 

[oldnewbie]

Already tried to help you one, and two months ago!
But you hang on for a few days and then disappear!
Make your last .fla available for download.
The one that's on your site is the old one!

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

[disfasia]

Sorry about that, I have incredibly busy...I will put the fla online at

http://www.disfasia.html/djoharu.fla

Thanks!

 

[disfasia]

I am now reworking the above site and I cannot yet getaround this problem of the following. I have a button which loads a movie clip. i want the down button to launch the mc, then I want to make a roll out button to reverse that mc if the button down has been clicked just before (a certain frame loaded, for instance) so that the piece shrinks. How can I make this 'if' clause?


thanks,

 

[oldnewbie]

Disfasia,
Your above link to the .fla doesn't (yet?) work.
Going out for diner, will tune in later!

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

[natedeia]

it doesnt seem to be the right link, use the link at top but put fla at end like this.

http://www.disfasia.net/djoharu.html

 

[natedeia]

it doesnt seem to be the right link, use the link at top but put fla at end like this.

http://www.disfasia.net/djoharu.fla

 

[oldnewbie]

Nat that's the old .fla I was referring to in one of my previous posts and not the last one Dis was suppose to upload!

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

[disfasia]

Well, I put the new one up there yesterday, the only problem is that now I don't know what to upload! It should be a new .fla!

 

[oldnewbie]

Ok! Downloaded, and it seems to be the current one!
So what do you want me to look at exactly?
You seem to not have any more sound now?
What other specific problem?

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

[disfasia]

I took off the sound because it was weighing down the file too much (hence, how do I have the various musical pieces load under the window 'ascolta'?

Also, when the window is open, i want it to close once the mouse moves againg, but ONLY IF the window is open...how would I do this?

thanks

 

[disfasia]

I am clarifying the above here:

In essence, what I have are six buttons that when clicked go to a certain frame in the mc. I want to make each window close before the new window load (another frame number). So how would I, say, make an action say on button down if frame x loaded then go to frame y and then go to another frame to load that window. each window has an opening and closing sequence and i need for each button to first close the previous window before loading itself.