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I would use flash for the more detailed things and the ones that need more perfection (full sites, etc) but i would use swish for the smaller stuff like Serverph said, because sometimes i just dont have the time to get into detail with flash, and it does take time because im not that experienced with it yet.... read more.
Ok, I have run into a little "fork in the road" so to speak. I was conversing with a friend of myne, and we began discussing the pro's and con's of two popular graphics/animation programs... SwishMAX and MS Flash... I personally have both, SwishMAX and Flash MX 2004...
Personally, I feel SwishMAX is better, becuase it gives you a broader range of effects, etc to do with your animation... However, at the same time, while more difficult to get used to (especially coming from Swish), Flash has its ups and downs as well, allowing a somewhat more professional, smoother look, while allowing the user to customize almost every image and detail...
So, to decide which I should use for my next site (assuming I am going to incorporate some animation into it), I am turning to you guys... For those of you who have used them, which do you prefer and why? Any and all input is greatly appreciated...
To me... SWISH is flash... or rather the ditto to Macromedia's Flash... I don't find the big deal between the two... They are just the same... If I were to choose, I'll prefer Micromedia Flash.. it's original flash creator.. So credits should go to them... That's why I will support them...
isn't there any substantial filesize difference on generated SWFs between swishmax and flashmx (with the same effects and all)? would anyone know the average difference/percentage? i would think that since swishmax comes bundled with ready-made effects, which users would find lazy to configure anyway (sorta like just plug-and-play, no dirty work to do ), it would have bigger SWF outputs. flash, on the other hand, requires more advanced planning but end-results can be freely optimized, hence lower filesize. and btw, does swishmax support actionscripts? pretty useful for most flash animators, i would think.
bottomline, it boils down which one you're most comfortable with. i use swish for small "rush" flash animation projects - like simple buttons, simple menus, etcetera which requires simple effects. when time is of no issue, i'd like to dig in and get dirty with flash.
haha... yea, I appreciate the comments from you two... Serverph, I think you kinda hit the nail on the head... I mean, lets face it, who doesnt wanna just get down and dirty with Flash?!?! ... Anywho, yea, I think I will probably end up doing what you said, and that was use Swish for the smaller rushed projects, and Flash for a little more in depth... Anyways, thanks for the input, I will be sure to put it to as good of use as I can...
And speaking of 'in depth', not sure on Swish, but I know that Flash does have the ability to interact with databases so if you really want to take it to the next level, Flash is probably the one to do it.
I personally like Flash but I'm inept at making animations. I made a camel once in 7th grade or so and that was the end of it. Also because I'm an intense perfectionist and I always end up doing something to the file before I save it...AKA deleting frames.
yea, I hear ya... Swish is definitely easier to pick up upon... however, I would have to agree... once you learn it, Flash does sure open a few more doors for ya... and lol... yea, it sucks being a professionalist...
graphics/animation programs... SwishMAX and MS Flash... I personally have both,
oh dear . . . not MS lol i would have to say Flash is better, but "Swish" is easier to just pick up and use and learn. (i also hate the name swish, its jsut soudns liek a pathetic rip off, of flash. . . i mean FLASH sounds kool . . . but swish. . . thats just kinda lame lol)
its similar to Paintshop pro and photoshop. PSP is easier to jsut pick up and start using if ur a newbie, but u can do so much more in PS
Flash MX is god of all.sish is easy but you cant create as good. as falsh with swish.you can check the possibiltiy of flash at http://bmace.com i like that site so much.you can even try some of the samples on your site.
I would use flash for the more detailed things and the ones that need more perfection (full sites, etc) but i would use swish for the smaller stuff like Serverph said, because sometimes i just dont have the time to get into detail with flash, and it does take time because im not that experienced with it yet.
I have both SwishMAX and Flash on my machine, although I can't really choose which one is better. Both have their pluses and minuses.
SwishMAX is easy to learn with lots of preset effects, allowing the user to create Flash animations quickly. The downside is that there are some effects that Swish cannot do but Flash can.
Flash can do a lot more and can do a lot of professional effects (as demonstrated on many a commercial Flash-based website), but the learning curve is admittedly a bit steep. If the user has time fool around and become comfortable using some of the effects, then Flash is great.
Can someone help me edit a flash header from a template. I can figure out MX 2004. I am a novice web
designer at best and need some help editing this header. Thanks so much ....
With Flash Player 9 on practically every PC, a lot of web developers are moving to Abobe Flex, Flash
and Actionscript as a development platform. I've seen a few posts related to the platform and I
feel that a dedicated forum is more than warranted. Flash discussions could fall under web design
as a sub-forum, while actionscript could fall under Programming Languages. There is also MXML to
consider. It's Adobe's custom mark-up language for flash components. But these are just
suggestions. Hopefully forum admins will look further into this issue and find it vi....
Hi all, I'm working on a project. Basically I hope to build a generic web application
framework that will allow Flash/AS3 applications to be easily integrated into the Facebook platform.
I am currently surveying a number of technologies and I am trying to figure out what tools will best
help me achieve that goal. Many of them are open source with some still in early development. Most
lack extensive documentation so its very difficult to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of a tool
without investing a good deal of time figuring out how to use them. Is anyone here....
Want to put music on all pages (near the top)? Want any song you want? Well heres how! Place the
following IN PLACE of the tag (paste in while thats highlighted. The text in red you HAVE to
replace with the song url. The text in green is OPTIONAL (whether you want it to autostart or not.
Right now it doesnt, if you want it to replace no with yes.) Of course place this in Admin
Cp>>>Skinning and Styles>>>Board Wrappers>>>Header and Body QUOTE REPLACE THIS
WITH YOUR SONG URL &autoStart= no " /> src="http://www.podbean.com/podcast-au....
Can anybody help me... Unfortunately I have an issue with firefox2-3 (under linux (ubuntu)
operating sistem) and flash transparacy... The site structure is: Menu (dropdown with javascript)
and under that a big flash with wmode=transparent param enabled.. On mouse-over the menu is not
appearing because the flash hides it... With all other browsers it works. I understood that this
is a flash plugin bug under linux - firefox2-3 Does anyone has a solution?....
i installed FF3 (which works great) on my flash drive for testing perposes (web desighning). anyways
yesterday at school since i had time i went to the library to use it but i realise that my history
and bookmarks where not saved on the flash even though i imported (duh i know they're on my hard
drive). i'd like to know how can i put my history and favorites (or at least my favorites) on
my flash drive and how to make sure that the browser knows that and that's what it uses not the
one on the hard drive. thank you /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" ....
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of a good open source CMS that allows dynamically embedding
flash videos such as those from youtube (needs to be able to embed flash with parameters), and also
allows uploading any type of file to the main server. Thanks! =)....
Hi Need help for a project , hope u guys could help out and teach me a little something. I saw some
flash that if you click on a icon or if u point ur mouse to the left of the screen it will keep
going left, and if right it'll keep scrolling right, as if ur checking out a room Or something
like this website.. www.mcdonalds.com.au , and choose broadband if you see on that site, when user
clicks on the icon to the right. the rest of the icons would kinda shift.. does anyone know how to
do that or know if there is anywhere out there a tutorial to do that? if u do.. it&....
Hi I need some help , Im designing this website for school studies However, I made a flash drop down
menu, works perfectly, but you know how flash has a background when you export it in to a SWF file?
For example my flash is width= 800, and height = 200 but my div box on my html page for my
navigation is only 50 px my buttons is width of 50px and the rest of the content is the drop down
animations i want to insert it into my navigation div box but i want to set the flash background to
transparent so that when the drop down menu comes down it overlaps the text or whateva....
Hi. Basically, the MovieClip(root) thing is dodgy at the best of times. Besides - it's not
recommended to use root at all. In fact, it's highly discouraged. I've seen plenty of posts
about this, but for the life of me, I can't find anything about what else I should use. What
alternative should I be using to access properties/mc's/etc from the root/parent time lines??
edit:Cleanup/spelling fixes, etc.....
Who what can tell about flash streaming? On mine this is the best way to show the other people that,
that you can create. Except for that in fact you can use Live and on demand streaming solutions Free
of charge, but on mine it depends as well on the "companies" to which you address. Not from all you
can receive 100 %-s streaming. Interestingly to whom you have addressed for flash streaming
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Its weird but sometimes when you hit the forums or roster button on my flash banner it will load:
www.childrenofconan.trap17.com/index.html instead of what its suppost to. It works fine, but if you
mess around and click the buttons for a little bit you will notice this happening. This is a problem
because people visiting the site will sometimes click the button once and be like oh I guess the
link is broken and never come back, if anyone has a solution to what could be the problem it would
be awesome. This is one of my first custom flash banners and im just confused what....
Hello, Searched through the forum but didn't find any hits on how to do this. I've designed
a page that has an embeded flash movie (*.swf format). The page works great when I test it on my
local server but when I post it on the net the movie (about 2 megs in size) takes a while to load.
Is there any way to stream the movie as opposed to have the browser download it all at once? Any
other suggestions to speed the loading of the page? Thanks in advance.....
Hi guys i was hoping if anyone that is good at coding could pretty please help me out im rather
good at designing compared to coding for flash.. so here goes.. Im trying to make a flash gallery..
ive started. and i know how to make buttons to go nxt and back and so forth... but i want to know if
anyone knows the actionscript to make a thumbnail .. so that you click on it .and it will load the
larger version on a little flash popup screen or just somewhere on the page.. its hard to explain
but ill try to find an example to show u /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middl....
Here's a Tip on USB Devices on protecting them.. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle"
emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Hope you want this... Enjoy /biggrin.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /> 1. Check first the Auto
Insert Notification setttings. Set it to "prompt user...". 2. Insert your USB device 3. Open "My
Computer" after the USB loads 4. DON'T left-click, but right-click on the USB drive 5. Check:
(very important) if it displays: QUOTE Open Explore Search Autoplay then it's safe.
if it....
Hey, I found this site today browsing the web. It's a flash game site (of pretty high quality
though) that's free to play. The cool thing is that you earn like coins or something whenever
you play and you can cash them in for some pretty good prizes. The downside is that the good prizes
cost quite a bit of coins and the games are aimed mainly at kids but if you want to check it out,
here's a link . Cheers mates No Referral links are allowed on this forum. Please review
yourself with the Trap17 ReadMe ....
Toufee.com allows you to create free Adobe Flash movies online. There are no ads on your movies
and you can use a wide variety of features to enhance your presentations like text effects and
speech-engines that read your text aloud. In fact, I still to get what the catch is. Here's
what you can do free: http://www.toufee.com/demo/create-flash.html And here is a test signature
I created using the service: http://tinyurl.com/ysosxj/flash.swf It must have taken me all of
ten to twenty minutes to create that once I knew what I wanted to do and how to do it. Th....
I do not like how stealing flash is so easy. I mean people do not even ask for permission anymore.
It is so easy! I mean Cmon! I mean all you need to is get Firefox and boom steal anyone hard
work! I some people like the people who made Ebaumsworld, just steal all of there content. I
have tried to ask the creators if I could use there animations but they do not answer me so I take
it. But it is the thought that counts right? I have heard something that protects it your site
content from people like that is this true? Well I do not like how all sites are the s....
Hi guys!!!! I was searching some Flash games. Maybe some one of you can give me an
help about that!!!!! You know, I need to create a particulare effect that
alllow me to do some knid of 3d room, where you can trun around your self and whach walls. Than I
will put link in tha walls, so that I will create a Labyrint game. any suggestion is apreciated
ALEXVIII....
Step 1- Make the Animation Get your animation ready. Make sure not to use any Movie Clips with self
contained animation for it will be lost in the conversion to an animated gif. Step 2- Publish
Settings Now that you have your animation you need to go to Publish Settings under File. Now
uncheck all of the boxes except for gif. This will not effect you if you usually preview your movies
by the Test Movie feature. If you do use Publish to preview your movies, simply recheck the .swf box
after this tutorial. Now click the only remaining Gif tab at the top of the box. N....
I have a flip phoone right now..and i like it..i think it is better than having a erm.. Non-flip
phone most people lock the keys so they dont push busttons when in pockets..but with flip phoines
you dont. what do ya'll think? You must completely fill out the topic title AND description.
Make your topic title so that it reveals key words. ....
hey hi guys..this is a code i used to print data from a datagrid and it is so useful in ur RIAs hope
it helps... cheers! CODE mybtn.onPress=function(){ doPrint(mydg, true) }
function doPrint(datagrid:mx.controls.DataGrid, fitPage:Boolean):Void { if
(fitPage == undefined) fitPage = true; var pj:PrintJob = new PrintJob(); //
position of currently visible rows stored var prev_vPosition:Number = datagrid.vPosition; var
prev_width:Number = datagrid.width; var prev_height:Number = datagrid.h....
How do i have to do, to tell a frame to wait x seconds after it continues playing? In Macromedia
Flash, of course... Like: CODE stop(); "wait x seconds"; play();
Thanks....
Once upon a time, a new Knight rode into town with some nifty tools. He was the designers friend.
The hero of creatives. His tools gave special powers to those that wanted to spend more time
creating and less time fiddling with code. His name was Sir McMed. Soon all creatives wanted to be
his friend. This did not please the Lord of the Manor, Sir McRow. Sir McMed was so adored by the
craftsmen. They liked his tools, they were light, powerful and easy to use. Not like the tools of
the Lord of the Manor, which were heavy and clunky. So they cast down the tools Sir McRow, ....
Can I create a Flash movie, with sound, and set it as my background for my site? I don't want
this flash movie to be the body background, but in a cell. If somone knows a code for that, do tell.
, thanx Nickmealey....
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), it would have bigger SWF outputs. flash, on the other hand, requires more advanced planning but end-results can be freely optimized, hence lower filesize. and btw, does swishmax support actionscripts? pretty useful for most flash animators, i would think. 
i use swish for small "rush" flash animation projects - like simple buttons, simple menus, etcetera which requires simple effects. when time is of no issue, i'd like to dig in and get dirty with flash. 
... Anywho, yea, I think I will probably end up doing what you said, and that was use Swish for the smaller rushed projects, and Flash for a little more in depth... Anyways, thanks for the input, I will be sure to put it to as good of use as I can...
