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List:       swiff-info
Subject:    [swiff-info] Various newbie questions
From:       "Jean-François Mezei" <vaxination>
Date:       1999-06-02 19:44:00
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Someone invoted me to this group, so I guess I should participate ;-(

I heard on a Canadian Business show and analyst recommending MAcromedia
because they were about to start charging for showckwave players (probablty
like real-audio, a basic free one and a upgraded version you pay for.
Does anyone know about this and how this will impact what features of the
SWF files will continue to be documented etc ?



My current project is to animate a long bicycle expedition on a map, based
on GPS readings that were taken every minute.  (about 500 points per day,
over 40 days).

I would like to dress up the display with stuff above and beyond the actual
line and numeric values that will be updated constantly. (eg: make a nice
background).

I would like to hear about various techniques would be recommended to embed 
such artwork programatically ?

Did you design it with flash, exported it to .SWF, and dump the file
contents and "manually" coded it into the program which generates SWF, or
do you parse the file/template dynamically and add all definition tags that 
are in there and add them to the SWIF file being built ?

(I guess one would also have to parse the place object tags to find out
where the artwork must go on the scene.)


Another question: (hey, what did you expect ?)

What sort of strategy do you take to place text in the file ? Is there a
way to ensure that a template SWF file contains the font definitions for
all the characters without actually using any of them in the template ?

I know this has been asked on the newsgroup, but I have not seen a
response. Are Generator Template files what I am looking for ?


Has anyone encountered any problems with building a movie that has a few
thousand frames and the same object placed as many times ? (in my case, a
dot placed for every recorded location, about 20,000 times (inside the 32k
bounds of a signed 16 bit integer, or 64k unsigned).

regards,
Jean-Francois Mezei
Montreal Canada

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