Web Xtra....eliminate white flash???

Parker Fleming

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Nov 19, 2002, 2:00:58 PM11/19/02

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I've got a series of buttons in director that change the source of a WebXtra
sprite and then jumps to the frame BEFORE the WebXtra sprite begins so that
when the sprite starts, it loads the HTML doc specified by the button that
was pushed (hope that makes sense!)

This works great, but when the WebXtra sprite starts, there is a white flash
before the HTML doc appears. This wouldn't be such a problem except that my
stage is black and so is the background of my HTML files....

Does anyone have any experience with this issue? have a workaround?

Thanks!

~P

Jon Thompson

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Nov 19, 2002, 2:25:06 PM11/19/02

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I believe this only happens on Macs correct?
Macromedia posted something on their site (referring to MIAWs) saying
that there is NO workaround for this and that Mac-users are used to
seeing the white flash.

Reed Bertolette

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Nov 19, 2002, 4:16:08 PM11/19/02

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This is just a guess, but could you have the sprite offstage say with a loc
at point(-2000, -2000) then move it into place after it's initialized?

~Reed

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> Jon,
>
> This is happening on a PC.....i do not use any MIAWs, the flash appears in
> an embeded WebXtra sprite.
>
> Thanks for the thought though.....
>
> ~ P
>
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Parker Fleming

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Nov 19, 2002, 2:55:43 PM11/19/02

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Jon,

This is happening on a PC.....i do not use any MIAWs, the flash appears in
an embeded WebXtra sprite.

Thanks for the thought though.....

~ P

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Bertil Flink

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Nov 19, 2002, 4:16:36 PM11/19/02

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I usually move the first frame of the WebXtra sprite off Stage, and then use
a framescript along these lines:

--Where sprite 10 is the WebXtra sprite

on exitFrame me
theEvent = sprite(10).lastEvent
if theEvent = "NavigateComplete" then
go the frame +1
else
go the frame
end if
end

--
Bertil Flink
Creative Media
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Parker Fleming

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Nov 19, 2002, 4:13:22 PM11/19/02

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Good idea!

As this is my first Director project, I've never done anything like that
before.....but sounds like it should work. Any ideas on how to go about
doing that?

~ P

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Parker Fleming

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Nov 20, 2002, 10:53:43 AM11/20/02

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Well I found a solution, thanks to everyone to responded to my query!

The WebXtra sprite is 4 frames long (with a hold on the last frame) I simply
moved the position of the Sprite off the stage for the first three frames
(to give it time to load) and then on the last frame, moved it to the proper
location. Worked liked a charm!

~ P

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