[L'enfanTerrible]

Good morning/afternoon, everyone.

I made my first flash movie last night, and I have been feverishly trying to figure out how I can display it in the forum or use it in my sig. Does anyone know how this can be done?

[Lerkfish]

Originally posted by L'enfanTerrible:
Good morning/afternoon, everyone.

I made my first flash movie last night, and I have been feverishly trying to figure out how I can display it in the forum or use it in my sig. Does anyone know how this can be done?

although I"m no expert, I'm reasonably sure that's against sig guidelines.

[wataru]

ABSOLUTELY NOT. People have been breaking the sig guidelines way too much recently, (ahem, L'enfanTerrible), and flash would just be way too much.

Get your current sig within guidelines before you start asking about breaking them.

[philzilla]

animation is, sure Lerk. however, regardless of that, you have to embed a .swf into a html page, you can't just throw a quick link in, like a .gif, or .jpg

example:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="160" height="310">
<param name="movie" value="flash/menu.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
<embed src="flash/menu.swf" width="160" height="310" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000"embed>
</object>

therefore, you'd need html turned on for it to work, and i don't know many board admin that would be so daft as to do that

just make a quick page and post the link, if you want people to see it

[Zimphire]

Use this one

[L'enfanTerrible]

Thanks Zimphire

Oh well, I guess my cool flash will remain off the MacNN boards

[MindFad]

Oh lord. Please, no flash sigs! Everyone's sig in this thread so far is technically over the limits.... No animated threads on MacNN! For the love of pancakes, no animated threads.

Have to go -- Bush is on TV.

[G4ME]

nice flash very subtle i wouldn't mind that.
but whats the text inside say?

[L'enfanTerrible]

Originally posted by G4ME:
nice flash very subtle i wouldn't mind that.
but whats the text inside say?

Receiving transmission: enter code.
passcode verified: enter action.
administering action: enter file.
gathering data: opening file.
YOU ARE NOT A SLAVE

[MindFad]

Originally posted by L'enfanTerrible:
Thanks Zimphire

Oh well, I guess my cool flash will remain off the MacNN boards

Very cool animation, L'enfanTerrible.

[L'enfanTerrible]

Originally posted by MindFad:

Very cool animation, L'enfanTerrible.

thanks

[Jim Paradise]

I dig it. Nice work. ^_^

[Demonhood]

the animation is nice.
animations are still forbidden.
flash isn't allowed either.
and i don't much like hippos.
so if you had a flash animation with a hippo, that'd really get my goat. and i like my goat.

{time to bump the sig guidelines thread}

[daimoni]

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[GoGoReggieXPowars]

This is starting to reseble the "does QE run on my machine?" threads...

[OwlBoy]

Its not impossible to add the ability

http://www.were-here.com has them

Though I think they can get annoying and mb even memory hogs if everyone uses em.

-Owl

[derbs]

you know you could make that flash into a pretty lean animated gif

[sek929]

Those aren't allowed either. But yeah it would be possible.

[Cipher13]

I can't stand flash, and boycott it completely. It's terrible.

I'm sure your animation is cool, but it's against everything I believe in to check it...

[derbs]

why do you hate flash so much C?

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by derbs:
why do you hate flash so much C?

It's so convolute... when on the net, I don't want to have to:

1. wait for the plugin to load
2. wait for the movie to load
3. watch a progress bar in the meantime
4. wait for links to appear in silly animated fashion
5. wait for the page to gradually be remade in front of my eyes
6. tolerate mouseover animation while searching the links for what I'm after
7. have to listen to cheap sound effects while doing so
8. have to deal with something as convolute as most flash pages are.

Of course, that's the worst of the worst - where a whole site is flash based. For an animation, it still sucks - why? Because a gif is just as good for simple animation, if not better.

I don't see the fascination. If I go to a webpage, I want to get the information I wanted, and get out of there, quickly.

MOST flash things are the epitomy of bad design.

However, I will concede: when flash is done well, it can be incredible - the ONLY example of this I've ever seen is the webpage for the Sydney Opera House. Incredible.