Hi.

I need to pick the brains of you I.T type people regarding Adobe Livemotion and the timelines for animations. I have got the animation set up and running, the problem is that I cannot work out how to use the “wait for download” behaviour properly. When I upload the SWF file to the web the animation streams as it is downloading instead of waiting till the download is complete. Anyone with any experience of this program who knows what to do?

Thanks.
Dean.

Sorry, not used adobe's product but we do have extensive flash experience..

Is the wait for download a wait for the complete file ? If so, why would u want to use that ? The swf format was designed from the beginning as a streaming format.

a method that we use is to have a frame at the beginning of your animation that checks if a certain frame is loaded. If so, it jumps to it. If not it plays a loading sequence..


only other advice i can give is that the reviews I've read class it as a poor man's flash, so if you are serious about producing .swf files maybe a switch to "the other side" before its too late ?

Lee did you sort out your Flash 5.0 upgrade ?? The PC versions are shipping now but the Mac ones will be in the UK in the next few days.

AllanB

Yes, and I'm not over-ecstatic about flash 5!!

An alternative way of writing up the blurb would be "Yes we've added a whole new pen tool and moved everything around so you can't find it, and popped a few bugs in there as well"...