Question/Suggestion

[zippyzip]

Hi,

I just bought Koolmoves this week and have played around a bit with it, looks really promising for some stuff I have in mind to do. One thing I noticed was the lack of being able to protect a swf file created with KM from being imported into Flash. I looked through I think everything but didn't see any option for this. I'm concerned that some people will HiJack my work and disect it in Flash. My apologies if I missed an option for this, if there is one could someone advise me where to find it.

Also, when importing background images into a new project, I've had it crash a LOT using Win2k Pro, am I just trying to push the background image limit or is there a bug handling certain jpeg files?

I'm using a 933-P3 with 768mb Ram/90gb HD under Win2k SP-2.

I look forward to the future developments on this product. I had bought Firestarter 3.5 - it's a total buggy joke, Corel's R.A.V.E. is nice but again bug infested and bloated swf files and no support, so far Koolmoves is the easiest most solid alternative I've found to Flash 5 for doing smaller to med range Flash tasks. I look forward to sending some of the samples I create with it for you to review.

Keep up the good work, it is a well spent $30.00 to anyone else looking for this type of software.

Regards,

Mike

[johnie]

Get SWF protect from Chironex software- It will protect your work from being imported into Flash more or less but is not 100% protection.

The problem is that many individuals and software companies have created tools to unprotect SWFs and thus making it pretty much useless to use the protect tag. Also keep in mind that that tag does nothing to stop SWF Parsers. Tools like AS Viewer, Swifty Zeus, SWF Scanner, SWF Browswer can still open up a protected SWF and extract all of the Clips, Images, and Sounds from your SWF.

No matter what protection scheme you use people will find a way to bypass it. Unfortunately, your best protection is a copyright notice and for you to take action so that your copyright is not infringed upon.

[Bob Hartzell]

I suggest you convert the jpeg to bmp and try importing that. It won't affect the size of the swf. Please email me the jpeg which is causing the problem. No one else has reported this problem but that is not conclusive evidence of anything. I would appreciate the crash dump (Dr. Watson or whatever). It has been useful in the past in identifying NT or Win2k problems which don't appear with other operating systems.

Maybe in August we will have a version with a unique protection system that will prevent shape fills from being imported into Flash. That will slow people down. It is an uncontrollable problem at the moment which we will control and make into a feature!


[Edited by Bob Hartzell on 07-05-2001 at 06:47 PM]

[zippyzip]

Hi again,

Thanks for all your suggestions, that was fast - I'm impressed.

I guess you are right about the copying, as with anything if someone is determined enough to take something they'll find a way to do it.

I've just finished my first wack at making a web page interface using KoolMoves, if you want to take a look go to http://www.lvm.com/heavenly/index.html - very time consuming, but interesting doing it. Aside from a couple of weird crashes when importing the background pics when I first started the program did'nt give me any other problems. I haven't been able to duplicate the crashes, unless I leave the compression ratio really low (not compressing the image much).

Question: when you bring in a JPEG 24bit photo for example can you not set the compression on that function like you do in the background image import? I found that when I tried importing some small photos the resulting swf file rendering was really bad.

Anyway, thanks again for your help, awesome!

TTYAS,

Mike

[Bob Hartzell]

Very nice. When it becomes more developed I would like to include it on our example page.

The compression for non-background images it set in Movie > Advanced I believe. It could be specific to the image. At a later time I will implement that.

The jpeg compression is third-party stuff and I don't mess with it.

If you ever get a crash dump please send it to me.

[Maggee]

That is looking really nice Zippy! I am jealous, lol.

[johnie]

It looks real nice zippy. Did you use load movie for your menu boxes or frame actions?

[fwhilton]

I like it Zippy!

Using "levels" and "load movie"... awesome!

I love the "levels" feature of KM. It makes web interfaces limitless!!!

Keep up the great work.

[zippyzip]

Hi,

Thanks for you comments about the other file, I am making more and more changes to it as I learn more features of KoolMoves each day. I came up with a new project tonite, this one only took a couple hours mostly creating the images for the door in XaraX/Photoshop.

Please take a look and check back while I develop it.

http://www.pageperf.com/door

Thanks,

Mike

[gonedigital]

Very Nice work. If you ever want to put some examples out
for others to learn from, Let me know and I can add it to
the koolface site.