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How do I properly add an animation?
I am attempting to add a .swf animation to my presentation. When I preview the .swf in the animations panel, it shows up; however, when I add it to my story, it doesn't play. So I tried adding a Flash component and then choosing the .swf to add and it still doesn't play. Am I missing a step? I checked the Help, but according to that, I am doing it right.
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Inappropriate?There are so many different ways a swf can be created that it is imposable for Flypaper to handle all of them however we do our best to support swf imports. In addition we offer some best practices to make it easier to get the desired results.
Here is a list of best practices for Flash files in Flypaper.
- Publish your swfs as Flash 9 using ActionScript 3. Otherwise they will not respond to play and stop commands.
- Use a framerate of 24. 24 is the framerate of the editor and the runtime. All loaded swfs will assume the framerate of the editor and runtime.
- Add a transparent shape the size of your stage as a bounding box for edit mode. When a swf is loaded, it no longer has it's own stage size. This will help eliminate sizing issues during edit mode.
- Do not have content that exceeds the bounding box in the first frame of your fla. This includes content in child movie clips etc. The first frame of the fla should be actual size any frames after that content exceeding the stage is not an issue. This will help eliminate sizing issues during edit mode.
- Only use audio on the main timeline and set it's "Synch" to "Stream". When a swf is told to stop or play, that only applies to the root timeline.
- Do not use parent or root calls in code.
- Do not set properties on the stage in code.
- Do not load external assets. All content should be compiled into the swf.
If this does not help you may need to contact Flypaper support for further assistance.
http://www.flypaper.com/support/
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Inappropriate?Thanks Jeremy. I don't think this was published in 9, so I'll try that. Can you add that informtion for the .swf files into the FlyPaper help?
