Please... someone... I need some help!

[TianaKaeSha]

I am making a very very important document for work at the moment using flash and swish.

The intro to this is largely images and text... one part has a huge amount of text - created in swish and imported into flash.

I have a feeling this has stuffed up my flash movie.

Every time I try and use action scripting, flash goes into a surge of memory leakage and refuses to respond... just eats up the memory, before I have to force Flash to close.

Over the last two days I have had problems with swish closing voluntarily... or with errors....

Is it possible for swish to have somehow corrupted my flash movie... or is it just because the flash movie is absolutely huge? (33MEG)

This is eventually going to be a projector file on a cd, distributed to company clients.

All I tried doing was adding an action to a button.. and the whole thing died.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

if you need to talk more about this, I am in australia and will be at work tomorrow working on it, available at this email

[email protected]

Thanks

[B S T L A]

Not very Flash-savy I`m afraid. Like most other people in here we came to Swish because Flash was impossibly complicated to learn. No doubt there are people in here who understand Flash too, but for a better response try some of the other forums at Flashkit. Good luck!

[jofta]

Originally posted by B S T L A
Not very Flash-savy I`m afraid. Like most other people in here we came to Swish because Flash was impossibly complicated to learn. No doubt there are people in here who understand Flash too, but for a better response try some of the other forums at Flashkit. Good luck!

Like wise..however Swish uses Flash 4 I think and maybe your on 5 and maybe theres a difference but I sure hope some one comes to your rescue...thats a "BIG" problem.
Jofta

[jlizard]

I don't know Flash either, but it would seem to me that 33MEG could cause a problem. Is there anyway you could break it up into a bunch of movies that call each other?

If nothing else, this will at least get your thread back to the top.

[Doug20]

I'll kick you up one more time but you should probably be up in the Flash forums as this sounds more like a Flash problem than a Swish problem. If your in a hurry your really in the wrong forum.
One thought as a work around, put your text in an HTML document and call it into your Flash something like this.
http://www.cvwebs.com/western/fpandswish.htm
go to print tutorial.
[Edited by Doug20 on 06-06-2001 at 11:02 PM]

[gerbick]

from the sound of it, the only actionscripting you are (explicitly) using is loadmovie. The rest, seems like just a sequence of bitmaps, what not. Nothing really mind boggling.

However, I would ask one thing... the memory/CPU issue you are having... have you profiled the streaming/bitrate of the animation? Go test your movie, the hit (I only have a PC at the moment) Ctrl+B. Check your Bandwidth Profile. You may be hitting a high enough spike of stuff trying to happen all at once that even streaming off the hard drive/CD may be too slow or it may hit your CPU extra hard - optimizing via resampling the images (don't over do it) and checking debugging (I am assuming that you are using Flash 5) as well as making sure that you are not doing anything in your actionscript that may be illegal or leading to errors.

btw, 33mb is a bit big. Be careful - I just had a 76mb Flash file give me a bit of problems. I got around it via using loadmovie, and constantly trying to preload the next movie - had to rearrange all of the files/animations into separate movies, then loadmovie.

Hope that helps.

[TianaKaeSha]

My action scripting cannot cause problems for one reason... there is none on the page as of yet... that is what I am trying to do... add a command to a button.

I have seperated the file original file into three now... but still seem to have problems.

Doug....I have no problems on movies that have no swish in them. That is why I posted it in the swish forum... I only have problems once swf files are imported (that were created in swish)... I have also posted in another forum (Flash 5) just in case.

I will test the bandwidth thing and see how it goes...

thanks for you help everyone..

[gerbick]

ok, I am in the states... so, I will not be up for too much longer... anyway, are you loading the Swish produced files at the same level as your over animations?

Create a new scene, then loadmovie into an empty clip. Use the Swish portion, see if it kills it then. If so... I honestly don't know what else to say... I have used Swish in the past without any true problems in Flash... well, one time, but I was just doing something stupid.

good luck...

Originally posted by TianaKaeSha
My action scripting cannot cause problems for one reason... there is none on the page as of yet... that is what I am trying to do... add a command to a button.

I have seperated the file original file into three now... but still seem to have problems.

Doug....I have no problems on movies that have no swish in them. That is why I posted it in the swish forum... I only have problems once swf files are imported (that were created in swish)... I have also posted in another forum (Flash 5) just in case.

I will test the bandwidth thing and see how it goes...

thanks for you help everyone..

[david petley]

TianaKaeSha
system resources, for some reason something is telling me system resources.
Try closing swish and flash on a fairly regular basis and then reopening.
All the undo steps use a lot of your system memory and 33mb sounds like a lot of data to store in multiple undo levels.
I don't know if this is your problem but it is worth a try, better than having your programs freeze suddenly with unsaved data.
david p.