Hi Bessie
There are a couple of things that you should be very much aware of when
dealing with shockwave but probably one of the key components is filesize.
Depending on your target audience you will need to minimize the filesize of
the dcr or they will be waiting a long time to see your app. You can allow
the project to play while still streaming, in other words, the enduser can
begin working through your app before it finishes downloading, but it means
that you have to be more diligent in structuring your project. To
successfully work, you will need to ensure that your project is fairly
linear in design, in other words you don't want people jumping into the
middle of the project when only the first quarter of the project has been
downloaded. You can accomplish this by a number of means, the easiest method
is to make sure that all media that you want to view is accessed on the
score in or prior to the frame that you want to go to, and 2nd you do a
framecheck ie. if frame(x).frameReady() then go to frame(x) This process
makes director /shockwave check to see if the components for the given frame
are present before going there. You can visualize a wait period by
displaying a custoom dialogue of some sort of waiting or progress bar. If
your media is external ie. the pictures are linked, then you will want to
issue preloadNetThing commands to preload the images before attempting to
display them. There are a lot of small issues that you need to be aware of,
there are some examples on MACR under the Director Support on using netLingo
and streaming media etc.. you will want to browse some of these if you've
never worked with shockwave before and/or if you've never used netLingo.
Hope this helps a little bit.
Sincerely
Mark
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> Behalf Of Bessie Palamari
> Sent: September 19, 2000 5:32 AM
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> Subject: <lingo-l> Re:shockwave
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> Hello!
> Im about to make a presentation in director which displays a lot
> of photos.
> I want to transfer that into the internet. Probably with
> shockwave. I have
> never done something like that before. How can I do it? Is there a better
> way to do it? Are there any important details that I should be aware of?
> Any information concidering the above would be more than helpful.
> Please help!
> Thanks in advance!!
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