Kerry Thompson wrote:
> > <Steve's helpful hints about flash buttons deleted>
>... However, I'd like to add a word of caution.
>
> Don't go overboard with your Flash assets. ... At one point I decided to try
> Flash for the other 44 sprites, to smooth out the on-the-fly resizing.
>
> Big mistake. My frame rate went from about 30 fps to about 4 fps. Mind you,
> the Flash sprites were single-frame static Flash movies. Direct to stage,
> idleHandlerPeriod = 0, 4 fps (the motion was being driven by a timeout
> object, not the frame rate).
Did you use .static ? The book claims it will help a great deal. I
haven't messed with it yet. Won't for the prototype. Keep their
expectations down. Surpass their expectations later.
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