Flash and Me

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Hey Spriggan, need some help with Flash. How do you insert a picture?

[Spriggan]

import from an outside source:

look for import in the file menu.  I sugest import to Libary.

If that's not what you want, you'll need to explaine what you're trying to do better.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Yeah, makes sense. For some reason the picture I had wasn't a file type it wanted to use. So I converted it to jpg. Weird that is wasing.

[Spriggan]

humm odd, I cant think of a picture type flash can't read.  What version you useing?  MX 2004? MX? or earlier (wich if you are I feel very sorry for you)?

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

It's Flash 5 I believe. MX maybe.

[Spriggan]

dude if you're not at lease useing MX you need to goto your boss and raise bloody hell.  The difference between flash 5 and MX (wich is the 6th) is so amazeingly different it's cruel and unsual to use any of the numbered flashes.  

And the difference between MX and MX 2004 is very media oreiented, includeing better compression and prossescor speed, which does affect animation in a lot of ways.  Basicaly it allows you to have more moveing things going on at one time.  Animation that's by tweens and frame by frame takes up a significant amount of memory copaired to useing actionscript.  MX 2004, and flash player 7 that it uses, realy helps the frame by frame speed.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Eh, I think it's just more important for me to understand the basics right now and actually get some flashes made first.

If I really, really, wanted a newer version of Flash I could just ask my mom. But I can wait.

[Spriggan]

lets put it another way, if you're useing flash 5 you'll want to upgrade becasue the layout, commands, actoinscript and several other things are all different.  So if you're going to learn, you should be useing one of the flashes thats current on those things.  

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Yeah, I think I'll stick with what I've got though. For one, it's my bosses own personal copy, and two, I'm a lowly Work Study student.

[Spriggan]

fair enough, but next time you're at work can you check the version for me?  I need to know if its MX or 5 so I can give you correct answers.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Ah, ok. I will try.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Ok Spriggan. I've found what it is. It's MX. It's all MX.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Ok, how do I embed an image into the whole movie? Do I have to add it to every frame? That would seem tedious.

[Spriggan]

depends on how complex your movie is, Gemm.  If you're just doing simple movie make a new layer and place it on said layer.  Like most programs layers are well layered.  So if you put the new layer as the top most, everything else will appear behind it.

[Spriggan]

here's the link you wanted Gemm.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm