Problems with Flash - please advise!

Ant84

Ant84

Ant84

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Hi,

A friend and myself are currently working on a site for our business. It's not finished, but we wanted to get some Flash on the homepage. After roughly doing this and uploading it, it's jerky and all over the place when you view it in the browser. Really at a loss when it comes to fixing it as neither of us have any in depth knowledge of it.

If anyone could take a look it's at www.forefrontcleaning.co.uk, and it's just the Flash bit on the main page. The text shifts every which way, as does the blue box, and some of the pictures are playing up also, especially the first one.

Could anyone advise on how to sort it?

Thanks in advance.
 
Have you tried increasing the number of frames per second(fps)??

Thats the only thing I can recall causing that effect when I played around with flash, only thing to remember is you might need to move the effects along in the timeline to make them last the appropriate time.

Looking at it though I reckon you could easily use jquery to get the same effect and in my opinion would be easier to maintain in the long run, cos I always struggled to to keep a flash site up to date.

Keep us updated with everything
 
mattgaunt said:
Have you tried increasing the number of frames per second(fps)??

Thats the only thing I can recall causing that effect when I played around with flash, only thing to remember is you might need to move the effects along in the timeline to make them last the appropriate time.

Looking at it though I reckon you could easily use jquery to get the same effect and in my opinion would be easier to maintain in the long run, cos I always struggled to to keep a flash site up to date.

Keep us updated with everything
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Thanks for the reply.

We've tried increasing the frame rate, but that's all we've tried. The animation obviously looked a lot quicker and smoother, but the problem with the shifting blue box and text remained the same.

I've got to say, I've never heard of jQuery, but we're more than willing to give it a go if it's likely to work well for us. Is it freeware? Easy to use or tough to get to grips with?
 
Yeah its dead easy to use and free and used widely by many big name sites (http://jquery.com/).

All you'll want is a loop that fades out one div, replace the content and fade in

http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/fadeOut
http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/fadeIn

http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Getting_Started_with_jQuery

There you go everything you could need to know, it is basically javascript but jQuery is a library of functions you can use which are cross-browser compatible.

If you get any problems feel free to message me and ill give you a further hand cos I'm pretty sure the code will be dead simple to knock up.
 
mattgaunt said:
Yeah its dead easy to use and free and used widely by many big name sites (http://jquery.com/).

All you'll want is a loop that fades out one div, replace the content and fade in

http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/fadeOut
http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/fadeIn

http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Getting_Started_with_jQuery

There you go everything you could need to know, it is basically javascript but jQuery is a library of functions you can use which are cross-browser compatible.

If you get any problems feel free to message me and ill give you a further hand cos I'm pretty sure the code will be dead simple to knock up.
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If you want the lazy and rwady made solution use the uinnerfade plugin - can be used to fade pretty much any element (divs, lists, images, paragraphs etc) in and out, using a animation JQUery can handle.

It'll then just a simple case of writing a whole 3 lines of code (depending on how you lay it out) it get it working.
 
The only reason I suggest it is flash isnt easy to change, and I think that little flicker in text is where a frame somewhere has the text moved and I always had trouble ensuring everything stayed still, which Im sure is because I didn't learn enough about flash to get it to work, but I think jquery would be a lot lot easier for you guys to do what you want and change if you need to at a later stage.

So give it a go :-)
 
Will it require us to create the images with the blue box/text separately in Photoshop or something rather than doing it all through Flash?

If so, I can be getting on with that tonight?
 
Well way I see it you have 2 choices:

1. create images for each thing including the blue box etc

OR

2. you make the thing into html using div's and css to place the image, blue box and text.

1 is easier to just do and get up and running compared to number if your more confident in photoshop and not html, however with option 2 you can edit the look of everything without needing to change anything in photoshop so again could be easier in the long run.

Its all trade off's and preferences really
 
tbh i'd prefer to see the image fade out aswell as in, just seems to hurt my eyes instantly dissapearing to a white background. for this time of thing jquery might be better as its static images and not motion.

have you just altered the alpha per frame or tweened the fade, i always find tweening gives better results
 
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