Re: Flash 5 color alpha!!!!
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Originally posted by botum
Hey! Whats up? I have a questio about something that is cracking my head!! How do you do an alpha aplied to a color (not to a simbol) in flash 5!!! I did that for a while in flash 4, it was a really useful tool to make transparent gradients and all that....
Any help would be great!!
Thanks
Bruno. [email protected]
Hey Bruno
If you go to the color mixer and select or mix a color you can also set its alpha. Once you have done this go to the mixer pallette's tab and select 'Add Swatch". That new color is now available in your swatches complete with transparency.
Hope this helps...
Re: Re: Re: emm.... newbies
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Originally posted by belteshazzar
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Originally posted by Paul Burnett
Hey there
Not a bad question, but what is it you are trying to do? Preload all or some of a swf before it starts to play, or preloading external swfs? Each involves different steps. Let me know and I'll give some examples.
paul, hi there again mate!
im interested about that preloading external swfs that u did with ur materpiece... i want also to create a (total/complete/all) flash site.. and this will be a big site.. well urs is huge! but it runs perfect!
cheers!
Hey again
Hmm unless you mean the Macromedia site (which i didn't help build) I am not sure what site you mean? I think maybe you have got me mistaken with my mate Tony David Cray and the SOH site. I'll get him to join in and add to the preloaders discussion. Certainly the preloaders he built for that site were very good.
Re: Re: Re: emm.... newbies
Hi Belteshazzar,
Preloading content is certainly the key to keeping a site feeling responsive and thus enticing for the user. Determining what content to preload or stream in the background can be tricky. Sit down and write out the flow of the site on paper and try to establish patterns that appear in the navigation and loading of the site. If you can find clumps of data that could be broken up and loaded seperately try making them load in the background.
Perception is everything. If you can get away with only loading half the interface or perhaps a lo-res version of an image then make two versions, one lo-res that loads immediately then a hi-res version that loads after the lo-res version while the user is viewing it. As long as there is something happening onscreen, the user is less likely to get bored and leave.
An example of this is the start-up sequence of the Opera House tour, http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/virt...ur/vrtour.html, I was faced with a 380k download before the user was able to begin. After a lot of different ideas and solutions I decided to use the download time to inform the user about the building. I broke apart all the individual graphics and loaded them in series. So as they arrived from the server they were displayed onscreen with a dialogue box displaying a brief text description of that object.
After user testing I found that this huge preload sequence actually assisted the user to understand the opera house site better. They had taken a few moments to glance at the hundereds of locations and felt a little more informed by the time the content had loaded.
After I had built the preloading sequence and done alot of testing on users, I found that I had to apply some brakes for high-speed users. I had built the site for modem users and above, and i discovered when the site was loaded on a cable or dsl line, the site loaded so fast that it made the user feel disoriented. So I placed a few pauses in for users that have fast connections, this allowed them to also have a chance to be presented with all the content.
Strange, but true.
tdc
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Originally posted by belteshazzar
Quote:
Originally posted by Paul Burnett
Hey there
Not a bad question, but what is it you are trying to do? Preload all or some of a swf before it starts to play, or preloading external swfs? Each involves different steps. Let me know and I'll give some examples.
paul, hi there again mate!
im interested about that preloading external swfs that u did with ur materpiece... i want also to create a (total/complete/all) flash site.. and this will be a big site.. well urs is huge! but it runs perfect!
cheers!
Re: Re: Re: Re: emm.... newbies
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Originally posted by Tony David Cray
Hi Belteshazzar,
Preloading content is certainly the key to keeping a site feeling responsive and thus enticing for the user. Determining what content to preload or stream in the background can be tricky. Sit down and write out the flow of the site on paper and try to establish patterns that appear in the navigation and loading of the site. If you can find clumps of data that could be broken up and loaded seperately try making them load in the background.
Perception is everything. If you can get away with only loading half the interface or perhaps a lo-res version of an image then make two versions, one lo-res that loads immediately then a hi-res version that loads after the lo-res version while the user is viewing it. As long as there is something happening onscreen, the user is less likely to get bored and leave.
An example of this is the start-up sequence of the Opera House tour, http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/virt...ur/vrtour.html, I was faced with a 380k download before the user was able to begin. After a lot of different ideas and solutions I decided to use the download time to inform the user about the building. I broke apart all the individual graphics and loaded them in series. So as they arrived from the server they were displayed onscreen with a dialogue box displaying a brief text description of that object.
After user testing I found that this huge preload sequence actually assisted the user to understand the opera house site better. They had taken a few moments to glance at the hundereds of locations and felt a little more informed by the time the content had loaded.
After I had built the preloading sequence and done alot of testing on users, I found that I had to apply some brakes for high-speed users. I had built the site for modem users and above, and i discovered when the site was loaded on a cable or dsl line, the site loaded so fast that it made the user feel disoriented. So I placed a few pauses in for users that have fast connections, this allowed them to also have a chance to be presented with all the content.
Strange, but true.
tdc
thanks.. ill keep that in mind... btw is there a way that i can have even a video of the conference itself? (well VCD is better..) heheheheh cheers!
