At 11:15 -0400 06/07/2002, Carol Mahaffy wrote:
>hey list --
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>I have a continuous animation going on in in my
>background (just a bunch of lines moving horizontally across the stage). I
>have set this up in a pretty small repeat loop that operates fine... Until I
>encounter quicktime or another function runs.
Hmmmm. You're updating on the frame cycle, so you've basically done
right as far as the loop itself is concerned. I'm not sure what else
you can do about it. Other functions require some processor time to
run, and video requires a massive amount of it, and there's only so
much that can happen in one second's space.
I believe a general rule for QT is to not have anyhting else
animating onscreen at the same time, largely because of these lag
issues, but it's not too surprising when you consider the positively
massive amount of data that QT (or any DV) streams off disk in any
moment it's playing.
You could try turning off Direct to Stage on the QT, but playback
would probably suffer.
As for the animation stuttering when other functions are being used
-- well, do those functions have lots of repeats in 'em? If so
throwing in an updateStage call in the repleats might let Director
update your animation. Laternately, you could do something like what
you're doing in your animation cycle, and break your repeats out so
they're actually frame events rather than repeat loops in a single
handler.
Hmm, maybe animating the lines in a Flash sprite would smooth them
out too, though it would probably guarantee that it couldn't work
well at *all* with QT present.
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