Flash sprite in Director: slow, slow!

It's not a new problem but maybe there's a new solution?...
I have a Flash game in a Director projector. The Flash games
works fine by itself (not embedded in Director), but inside
Director, everything runs much slower. Is there any ways to speed
things up?
Thanks
Serge

Yea Flash tends to run a bit slower in director, be sure the
default
direct to stage flash member property is set.
Mx 2004 has an updated flash xtra that runs a little more
effeciently,
with an option to run multiple flash sprites in the same
memory space.
There's a downloadable director update for flash 8.0

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Rob
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I have a very big problem now
Neither embedded Flash movies with textareas or standard flashcomponent TextArea from Director tool pallete do not react on keyboard button "Enter" pressings. There is no carriage return after ENTER button is pressed. The same with End and Home buttons!!
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Thanks Rob --
Dir MX2004 (w/flash 8 asset/xtra update) - Flash 8
Excellent! Yes -multiple buttons (menu's) within individuals
swf's
Much better approach - as I am currently manually scripting
individual
events for each button - on(release)...
Appreciate it!
Michael
"Rob Dillon - Adobe Community Expert"
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news:[email protected]...
> What version of Director and what version of Flash are
you working with?
>
> There is a Flash cursor behavior in the Director Library
that will
> handle the cursor change in Director, so you don't have
to use getURL
> for that part.
>
> What sort of action do you want to perform with these
Flash buttons?
> From you example it looks like you want some simple
navigation control
> in Director. Is each button a unique Flash .swf? Or do
you have a number
> of buttons in one Flash .swf? If each button is
separate, then you could
> just write a behavior as if the Flash sprite was any
other button.
>
> If you have multiple buttons in any given .swf then
you'll have to send
> out a message from the .swf to initiate an action. There
is a
> mouseOverButton property for Flash members, but it can
only tell if the
> cursor is over a button, not a particular button.
>
> To give you flexibility and maybe simplify things, you
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> getURL function in a behavior and set up a naming
convention for your
> Flash buttons. For instance, if you have four buttons in
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> name their instances sequentially, "one", "two", etc.
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>
> var buttonArray:Array = new Array(one,two,three,four);
>
> for (i in buttonArray) {
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> getURL(this);
> }
> }
>
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>
> Then you can just place a behavior like this on the
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>
> on getURL me,data
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> end
>
> or use a case statement to parse out the string that was
sent from the
> Flash .swf.
>
> This might at least simplify the Flash development
process.
>
> --
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Hi
Following problem
we have Flash Textfields in Director
At start the are not editable, then on demand they are made
editable - .
If there is some text in the field, it becames selected.
Not when I enter some text from keyboard, the text in flash
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