MC with FlashEff flashes for a second before animating!

Hey everyone.

On most clips on which I have a FlashEff instance something strange happens. I publish and the whole movie flashes for a second in its end state and then starts animating. Why is this happening? Why does it show the entire content for a second before starting to animate in?

Thanks.

This problem seems to occur only on Mac OS because when tested on Windows, the animations work fine. Our recommendation is to place the FlashEff instances and their target objects on the second frame (not on frame 1) and then use a stop() function to stop the playhead on that frame (prevents Flash player from looping your clip). This way Flash player will have enough time to initialize the component.

Hello There I'm also experiencing the same problem... I've made a website with multiple pages, each page has an instance of FlashEff (free). I've got a preloader on frame 1, so the main website pages start from frame 2 onwards. How would I implement the stop() function you mention?

Many thanks any help is greatly appreciated :)

Speak soon,

Anthony

On the second Frame that you have created open you Actions panel(F9) and write stop().

Thanks for the response... I'm not sure if this is the solution for my problem... I have tried my website on both mac and pc and the same problem occurs?

If you move very quickly between pages by pressing the buttons, the Flash Eff logo keeps popping up on the effected movies?

here is my website : www.anthonyammar.com (as it might give you a better idea what's happen)

There are also a couple of weird flicker bugs going on too :(

Sorry I'm a bit of a flash newbie... so any help to resolve these issues would be most appreciated :)

Many Thanks,

Anthony

PS Great Product you guys make!

Hi aammar,

Thanks for the compliments, we do have an awesome product :).
I see your problem but I need to take a look at the .fla file if you want me to help. Open a ticket here: [www.jumpeyecomponents.com] and tell us what the problem is. If you want me to look at it please specify that somewhere along your message.

-Ionut D.

Indeed the awesomeness is unmatched. I was just wondering if a solution has been found for Anthony's site.
My solution, as Ionut suggested: put the movies (site pages in this case) on frames 5, 10, 15, 20 or whatever your interval is or however many pages/movies you have with a stop(); action on each frame.
Then set your buttons to gotoAndPlay(); to the previous frame of each. 4, 9, 14, 19. No more flickering, looks good but there's a side effect to this: You hit the same button, it reloads the same page, which isn't nice.
So how do we get around this?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2009 03:01AM by ghitacostas.

Just emailed the ticket... Many Thanks :)

ghitacostas,

This can be done with a little coding. You will need a new variable that remembers the page that you are viewing and on every event listener that you have on those buttons, before you go to a different page check if the page you are viewing is the same with the one you have in your variable, if so do not reload the page.

Then this is the solution for the split second flickering of the FlashEff instance. Send your buttons to a frame before your page/movieclip and hold it in place within a variable. I'll see if I can get it to work.
Thanks as usual, Ionut.

This absolutely sucks. I have a project due Monday I have spent weekend using this program which is great but that flash on looping just kills EVERYTHING. I don't know AS all my time is wasted. I am screwed. I want it to loop but not flash at beginning

I tried

stop();
setTimeout(play, 1000);

On frame 1 after looping and it still blinks this SUCKS I need this to work. It is like buying a car and saying well to start the car push it then turn key

keano, if you can't get this to work send an e-mail to jumpeye components support team, they will help you

I'm not sure if this will help for your looping issue, but on my movie I got around the single frame flash by putting a gotoAndPlay(5); action on frame 1 and then starting any FlashEff animations on or after frame 5. Just think of frame 5 as your new frame 1.

Just to test, when I took out the stop() at the end of my movie it looped just fine without and flashing.

Hope this fix works for anyone else having issues.

I am working on a mac, but I was seeing the flashing on our PC as well.