transitions for a photo based site

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dtodab - 07 Jul 2008 20:45 GMT

i have a general question regarding the use of transitions with photos. i've
just completed my first flash base site and it seems to take way too long to
load up (i have a preloader to load the entire site after the splash page). it
is a photography based site, so primarily images for every page. each image has
been converted to a movieclip which fades in using about 15 frames for its
transition. i'm wondering if i can somehow apply the same transition to each
new image instead of using many transitions that do exactly the same function.
if this is possible, i'm sure it will account for a significant size decrease
in the overall site.
if not, i may have to go back and resize each image.
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks.

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dzedward - 08 Jul 2008 15:08 GMT

create an array of the instance names of your movie clips, and use a for loop to apply the transition to all of them.

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dzedward - 08 Jul 2008 16:55 GMT

var mcNames:Array = new Array(GJack_mc, Another_mc, Again_mc, More_mc);

for(var i = 0; i<mcNames.length; i++){
var t:Tween = new Tween(mcNames[i], "_alpha", Strong.easeIn, 0, 100, 1,
true);
};

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dtodab - 12 Jul 2008 16:25 GMT

thanks for the help. things are working more or less....
just wondering how to apply it across several frames. i've placed the code on
the first frame of each image section, but it seems to only work for that one
frame. perhaps i'm not placing the code in the proper section.
any advice?

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dtodab - 08 Jul 2008 15:24 GMT

thanks for the quick response.
this is my first flash project, so just wondering if you can point me in the right direction of finding the proper code to do this.

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transitions for a photo based site