Freezing issues

[nickbernier]

Good day,

I have just recently started using Koolmoves, I'm not great at it but I'm getting better everyday.

I've recently done a simple website, it's all flash with a nav section on the left and each corresponding page is simply a key frame. (each button has goto frame + stop action to the corresponding keyframe).

Anyway, everything works fine except for my very last button which is trying to get to keyframe 7. I can click on all the other buttons everything is fine, but when you click on the last one, it either freezes up altogether or it will go to keyframe 7 but the bottom half of the frame is all F***** up!! I've done about 6 sites like this one, never had a problem?

http://bernieradoption.reikiplus.org to check out the .swf

I've updated Koolmove's to version 5.5 still same problem, I've tried on different web browsers as well. I've had an error message before on my previous work about a shape or imported swf having a naming conflict etc... not the case with this site?

Any help or input would be appreciated!

Regards

Nick Bernier

[Bob Hartzell]

I am not clear about where the freeze up is happening. Are you having the problem while you are editing in koolmoves or while the swf is playing?

I assume the latter. In that case, what makes button 7 special? Is there anything unusual about the over/down states or actions associated with button 7?

[nickbernier]

Thanks for the reply, I got it fixed, somewhat! Frame 7 had nothing special, it was simply a copy of all the previous ones which I then modified. I played around with it and found out that after I deleted a block of text it suddenly worked. Is there anything special I need to do when adding text, images, shapes etc... Do I have to rename each one or are the system defaults OK?

There shouldn't be any limit to how many objects I can have per frame, right? Anyway, I also changed the .swf properties to Flash Version 7, that seemed to help as well.

I've got to sit down and read the user manual one of these days! Thanks for the help

Nick

[necromanthus]

Thanks for the reply, I got it fixed, somewhat! Frame 7 had nothing special, it was simply a copy of all the previous ones which I then modified. I played around with it and found out that after I deleted a block of text it suddenly worked. Is there anything special I need to do when adding text, images, shapes etc... Do I have to rename each one or are the system defaults OK?

In fact your "frame 7" is frame 45 ...
As general rules:
1) do not use tweens if not needed
KM default setting is 6 tweens per frame. Change that value to ZERO.
2) use a unique name for each object (movieclip, button, text field, shape or image)
3) Do not "copy & paste" Adobe Flash actionscript (if you can't debug it).
99% is supported by KM, but the remaining percent can be a source of troubles.
4) do not use AS2 (is not supported)

;)

[nickbernier]

That's right! I never thought of the tweens, I didn't think of it that way. I'll keep this in mind from now on.

Thanks a bunch!

Nick