RE: [Jgen-devel] SWF file reduction

[Khosa, S. <sk...@in...>]

Hi Dmitry,

The issue i face is that in my template, based on the data in XML i hide or
show certain portions of my flash movie. But effectively all the movies
generated have same size based on the template(even if i hide or show parts
of it). What i want to do is to remove the portions of the movie that dont
have data in XML documents. The issue here is that i need to reduce to size
of the movie if i am showing only parts of it.

Thanks,
Sumeer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dmitry Skavish [mailto:sk...@us...]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:29 AM
To: Khosa, Sumeer
Cc: 'jge...@li...'
Subject: Re: [Jgen-devel] SWF file reduction


Khosa,

> I am using Flash 5 based templates to generate .swf files. I have XML
based
> data definition for my flash maps. Each of these maps is based on
Templates
> consistign of 9 frames. The final .swf file size is around 150k. It works
> fine on cable/Dsl speed but on 56k modem speeds the download of the
> flashfile is really slow. I am just wondering is there any method in the
> JGenerator API to reduce the FlashFile size or compress it into one frame
> after the .swf is generated.

JGenerator tries not to duplicate things in .swf, but it's not always
possible.
It usually works for images, so if you insert an image two times into a .swf
it will occupy a space of one. For shapes and movie clips you need to take
care of it yourself. Usually with right coding the size can be reduced
dramatically.

But I don't quite understand what you mean by compressing it into one frame?
If the data in all the frames are the same why you need all these frames?
If the data in all the frames are different (I suppose this is the case)
then
even if you put all this into one frame it will only reduce the size of your
file
by 9 bytes (1 byte for every frame), so this is not what you want I guess.

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