RE: SWF file reduction

Hi Damien,

Yeah i ahve build several movies and loaded them on demand. But they have
same size based on teh tempalte that i have defined. As i mentioned earlier
i just hide or show portions of movie during .swf generation process. 

Thanks
Sumeer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Morton [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:47 AM
To: 'Khosa, Sumeer'; 'Dmitry Skavish'
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Jgen-devel] SWF file reduction


Why not build several movies and load each one on demand.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Khosa, Sumeer
> Sent: Thursday, 31 October 2002 14:45
> To: 'Dmitry Skavish'
> Cc: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: [Jgen-devel] SWF file reduction
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> The issue i face is that in my template, based on the data in 
> XML i hide or show certain portions of my flash movie. But 
> effectively all the movies generated have same size based on 
> the template(even if i hide or show parts of it). What i want 
> to do is to remove the portions of the movie that dont have 
> data in XML documents. The issue here is that i need to 
> reduce to size of the movie if i am showing only parts of it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sumeer.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Skavish [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:29 AM
> To: Khosa, Sumeer
> Cc: '[email protected]'
> Subject: Re: [Jgen-devel] SWF file reduction
> 
> 
> Khosa,
> 
> > I am using Flash 5 based templates to generate .swf files. 
> I have XML
> based
> > data definition for my flash maps. Each of these maps is based on
> Templates
> > consistign of 9 frames. The final .swf file size is around 150k. It 
> > works fine on cable/Dsl speed but on 56k modem speeds the 
> download of 
> > the flashfile is really slow. I am just wondering is there 
> any method 
> > in the JGenerator API to reduce the FlashFile size or 
> compress it into 
> > one frame after the .swf is generated.
> 
> JGenerator tries not to duplicate things in .swf, but it's 
> not always possible. It usually works for images, so if you 
> insert an image two times into a .swf it will occupy a space 
> of one. For shapes and movie clips you need to take care of 
> it yourself. Usually with right coding the size can be 
> reduced dramatically.
> 
> But I don't quite understand what you mean by compressing it 
> into one frame? If the data in all the frames are the same 
> why you need all these frames? If the data in all the frames 
> are different (I suppose this is the case) then even if you 
> put all this into one frame it will only reduce the size of 
> your file by 9 bytes (1 byte for every frame), so this is not 
> what you want I guess.
> 
> -- 
> Dmitry Skavish
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