I just tried saving as Flash 7 and still hogs the CPU. I'll take a look for some of the items you mentioned (as I did not originally design this).
I can say that it has about 9 seperate screens in it which are fadded in when links are clicked....the screens have less than 100% opacity so the background movie can be seen....the background movie is an outdoor scene with various effects (basically opaque gradients that move to make it look like sun is shining down through the clouds and moving across the water) which loops.
I'd bet it's the looping background movie that is the killer. That said we are getting feedback from our beta testers that states the background movement (although subtle) is a bit distrctiong when reading the contents of the screens.....so it may go anyway.
As I mentioned apost or 2 back...I may re-produce these effects via DHTML...so if anyone has a great layer fading transition script....please make yourself known ;-)
Cheers
Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
VP & Director of E-Commerce Development
Electric Edge Systems Group Inc.
t. 250.920.8830
e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Gerig
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: Flash spiking CPU
I havent followed the whole thread - so i maybe re-stating here but, you
need to be very careful producing Flash 5 swfs.
onClipEvent(onEnterFrame) is notorious for clogging up the CPU so you
need to make sure whoever did the swf knows all the flash 5 tricks
techniques etc to produce an efficient processor friendly swf. I
imagine that someone who doesnt have flash 5 experience could easily run
into problems...
If the flash 7 version is a hog aswell then flash 5 is obviously not the
issue. Its difficult to say more without knowing the nature of the
animation.
probable clean ups would be:
replace alpha fades with colour fades
setQuality dynamically (might not be appropriate)
use flash 4 syntax (ie. setProperty)
frame loops over onEnterFrame
if its a big project u may be able to justify paying someone to optimise
it using flasm
use rounded numbers for object placement
dont use shapetweens
cheers
Nick
Bryan Stevenson wrote:
> Unfortuneately I can't show the site yet....still in beta and under NDA.
>
> I'm thinking that it's acceptable for the short term, but the effects
> and transitions could be duplicated using DHTML!
>
> Thanks all
>
> Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
> VP & Director of E-Commerce Development
> Electric Edge Systems Group Inc.
> t. 250.920.8830
> e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Macromedia Associate Partner
> www.macromedia.com
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group
> Founder & Director
> www.cfug-vancouverisland.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: brobborb
> To: CF-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 6:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Flash spiking CPU
>
> can u send me a link to the page displaying the SWF? (not thw swf
> itself)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bryan Stevenson
> To: CF-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Flash spiking CPU
>
> I'm with ya...but any ways of minimizing this nastiness?
>
> Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
> VP & Director of E-Commerce Development
> Electric Edge Systems Group Inc.
> t. 250.920.8830
> e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Macromedia Associate Partner
> www.macromedia.com
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group
> Founder & Director
> www.cfug-vancouverisland.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: brobborb
> To: CF-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Flash spiking CPU
>
> Because flash, especially with animation, is a CPU hog. Thats
> why i hate macromedia for doing their whole site in flash. Doing a
> search in the DEV exchange is a nightmare. Scrolling down the flash
> scroll is slow and choppy. not smooth like HTML. i'm like, my goodness!!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bryan Stevenson
> To: CF-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 6:36 PM
> Subject: OT: Flash spiking CPU
>
> Hey All,
>
> We've got about a 140k SWF that loads on the home page. It
> makes the
> IEXPLORE.EXE process grab 90+% of the CPU and doesn't seem to
> let go until
> you navigate away from that page to the all HTML pages in the
> rest of the
> app.
>
> Any ideas? or is this just the way it is?
>
> BTW the SWF is saved as Flash 5 (just to catch those few
> without Flash 7
> plugin).
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
> VP & Director of E-Commerce Development
> Electric Edge Systems Group Inc.
> t. 250.920.8830
> e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Macromedia Associate Partner
> www.macromedia.com
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group
> Founder & Director
> www.cfug-vancouverisland.com
>
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