RE: SWF file reduction

Hiya,

How do you load the movies?

Action script?

I would suggest using the insert symbol to show bits you need or placing
each part in separate movies and then as Damien suggested loading them just
before you show them.

I'm not sure why your indivual movies are the same size.
If you're not showing somthing it should reduce the size of the download.

We work on the basis that any movie over 8KB to 10KB is too big.
But we do have several hundered movies.

Ian.

 
> 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
> > -----------------------
> > Boston, MA, USA
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> > http://www.flashgap.com
> > 
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