Well I tried it, and the same still works. I'll wait till tomorrow morning to check it out. Thanks for the help.
Well I tried it, and the same still works. I'll wait till tomorrow morning to check it out. Thanks for the help.
I've been on both sides of that issue.
Many times I feel I'm doing a disservice by fixing someone else's problem. Other times no I know there is no way for me to guide someone to an answer, due to communiciation error on either side the goal isn't achieved. Unfortunately there is no end all be all answer.
However I've been taking a tip from Cadence on the matter. Now if I find a repetitive question that has been answered three threads down or a page down I post the link to the thread as my response Sometimes finding a specific thread that may help the member the most takes longer then the reply. It may seem cold hearted to a newbie but it is not arguementitive and sets a tone of look before you leap.
Generally people don't come here for lessons in search engine use and posting ediquette. They come for specific answers about swish. Some pick up after the first post methodology and ediquette on the first try some a little later on and some never pick up on the ideals regardless of how you present your replies.
I'm sure that those of us who are familiar w/ the online world of bulletin boards are much more knowledgable of their inner workings (and their social behaviors)...but not every user is like that, which i fully understand.
certain things like an intro thread that's sticky (like we used to have) would be beneficial to everyone, as it would cut down on repeat threads and speed up the process by which answers are found, therefore benefitting everybody.
i too have taken the quick post of the pertinent thread technique, but i think if we never point out the search feature (and certain guidelines that should be followed to some extent) that people will never figure it out on their own (the search IS very difficult to see if you're not looking for it). mostly it's all about making / keeping this a kick-ass forum.
I know I shouldn't say much, because sometimes I just post a topic instead of searching, but I can relate. I have a friend who always asks me for help for Frontpage. Always. He never bothers to look it up in help or anything, which was where I learned all my basics. And same with Swish... I'll be sure to do an advanced search from now on, before posting another thread.Quote:
Originally posted by persaltier
I'm sure that those of us who are familiar w/ the online world of bulletin boards are much more knowledgable of their inner workings (and their social behaviors)...but not every user is like that, which i fully understand.
certain things like an intro thread that's sticky (like we used to have) would be beneficial to everyone, as it would cut down on repeat threads and speed up the process by which answers are found, therefore benefitting everybody.
i too have taken the quick post of the pertinent thread technique, but i think if we never point out the search feature (and certain guidelines that should be followed to some extent) that people will never figure it out on their own (the search IS very difficult to see if you're not looking for it). mostly it's all about making / keeping this a kick-ass forum.
I think we should have a coffee lounge for the swish here.
Call it a cafe latte lounge.
Persaiter is very right about the forum here. It is a great place.
Take a look around outside the swish community(including all the other swish forums (wow,sspot,4ums, total,swishers.der, myswish) and you'll find totally different atmosphere.
Wcoleman,
It works!!! Thanks so much. The disadvantage to this is that it lets the text scroll on forever and ever. I assume, since it's not on the file you gave me, this can't be stopped (scrolling forever and ever). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Mine is not capable of stopping at the end of the text, but there is a recent thread about such scrollers and although I haven't tried it with an example of my own it looks as if persaltier has found a way to do this.
Cheers,
Flick
On the issues raised by perslatier and others, I went through a period of responding to every thread that I responded to with a suggestion to use the search feature, or with a link to the last major thread on that issue (although I like also like the way that jofta and others were pointing people to the complete results of a search). A recent thread chastized many of us for the "go search and here is a recent thread" approach as being unsupportive of beginners.
In the particular instance that prompted this meta-thread, somone submitting a movie using pixel fonts located on fractional coordinates, after several posts delineating the necessity of placing the fonts on integral coordinates, I am a little less upset about that than others. In more than 35 years of teaching chemistry (and other things) to students from beginning college level through their PhD, I have become comfortable with the fact that some folks really learn best by example, and although we talked about integral coordinates here, sometimes someone has to screw up and have it pointed explicitly before they say "Oh, thats what you meant by place them on integral coordinates". This is one of the reasons that the visual tutprials that were around a few weeks ago were useful to some people. Since that is not the way that I learn it does not make particular sense to me, but I am always pleased when I see great work coming from someone over whom I tore my hair out when they were my student. I have seen the same thing happen here - someone will go through a period of asking what seems to be obvious questions, and ones that have been discussed ad naseum, but after a time they then produce some excellent work.
That said, I am disturbed with the approach taken by a number of beginners who appear to never have even looked at the program itself - what are those menu items, what are those panels, what might they do - much less haveing looked at the help files. Again, however, people don't come here to learn how to use software in general, but, as has been pointed out, to ask specific questions. The old adage of "give a person a swi and they will swish for a day, teach them to swish and they will swish for a lifetime" sounds good, but is just not what many visitors to this forum are seeking. It would be interesting to have statistics on not just posts, but the pattern of visitation versus posts for many poelpe, and some information about how many people post one or two questions and then disappear from the forum for long periods of time.
I would like to pick up on persaltier's point that search is hard to find. It would seem as if it would be easier to develop a culture of "Search First" if (a) the seach button was more obvious - I would bet that on many monitor/resolution setups the search button is off to the right of the screen, and advanced search is not even visible - and (b) if the only search available was advanced search (a simple keyword search seems of limited value to anyone in FlashKit). There appears to be a fair amount of white space above the Forum Rules section, and a single search button there, that led to the advanced search feature, might help. I doubt that it would encourage everyone to search, but it couldn't hurt. A few guidelines on using search would also be useful.
There was some discussion in the moderators board awhile back about deleting all threads over __ months old. Although that has not been raised recently I think it is a great idea (and don't really care what it does to people's post counts - something that seemed to be a big issue). The fact is that anything posted in this forum before Swish 2 came out is probably irrelevant as all issues about Swish 1.5x have been addressed several times since then. That would greatly cut down on the size of search results - even if you advise someone to look at the most recent threads first, finding 732 threads in a search is daunting to say the least. Of course, and David Petley reminded us of this a long time ago, the title you choose for your thread now determines how useful it will be to someone else doing a search in the future. "Help" is a Beatle's song (and movie), not a thread title.
This has been a little too long a rant, but I wanted to air a number of opinions and this seemd like the appropriate thread.
Cheers,
Flick
I, for one, had a problem with the sharpness of scrolling. Had I known to use the transform effect for it, I could've searched about it. And after I did, I searched for it, and found the thread made by Jofta, which answered my question about the end point to the transform scroll. It also made me realize that maybe viewing paragraph by paragraph could be the best idea, which I may can use the transform skill too. Please don't think I haven't learn from this, I have. I now know that the transform effect is used to move an object 1 pixel or 5 pixel or x pixels at a time.
Hi there,
I tried the sites that was given by coleman and the fonts are really sharp looking for my point of view, just that some fonts are intended just for a certain size and you can go below or smaller then that or it'll become blurr. Thanks for the links..coleman and thanks to all that has posted to this issue on fonts. My sample site is http://www.nethub.vze.com :)
OK, this is really getting annoying now. I tried to fix a blurryness problem I have. No luck. My problem is that in a few paragraphs of the text, its sharp and clear, then scroll down to the second paragraph, u see some blurryness. Why?
To see it go to http://jleague.topcities.com
Click on Episodes>Season 1> Secret Origins 1(first pic)
Then scroll down. The text is a little distorted. I used a transform scroller. Should this be happening? Is it because of the amount of text?
it looks clear to me...neat site too :)
Thanks. Must be my eyes then... still.. I have my doubts about its clearness. Yes you can read it, but it looks different from the first paragraph. *sighs* I'm gonna check it on another computer. Maybe my monitor is messed up.
Ok well I tried messing with it. I started to insert one paragraph at a time into the text object. At first it seemed to work, but then it got blurry. I don't believe its the coordinates because part of the text is sharp and the other one is not. Is there a limit for the text that can be used?
now i see it...you might want to seperate every paragraph into its own text box....and play w/ the line spacing of the specific font.
OK, I've tried that before, but when I did, the text dissapears when being previewed in the Flash Player. :( Let me try it again.
Thank you! It works!
*bump*
try this:
http://www.z00.it/ext/fonts_how_to/tutorial.html
cheers
rudy