Comments on: Compressed, High-Performing Animations in Flash http://nicolasschudel.name/bitmap-animations/ Balancing Design and Development in Online Media Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:51:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nicolas http://nicolasschudel.name/bitmap-animations/comment-page-1/#comment-709 Nicolas Sun, 09 May 2010 08:52:30 +0000 http://nicolasschudel.name/?p=296#comment-709 Thank you, Yu-Chung, for your contributions. I have implemented your ideas: BitmapAnimation now only draws the first frame when added to the stage stopped. DelayedBitmapAnimation now has a percentComplete value, that, like the ProgressBar component, returns a value between 0 and 100. The updated source code can be found using the download links of this post. Thank you, Yu-Chung, for your contributions. I have implemented your ideas:

BitmapAnimation now only draws the first frame when added to the stage stopped.

DelayedBitmapAnimation now has a percentComplete value, that, like the ProgressBar component, returns a value between 0 and 100.

The updated source code can be found using the download links of this post.

]]> By: Yu-Chung Chen http://nicolasschudel.name/bitmap-animations/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Yu-Chung Chen Sat, 01 May 2010 18:47:55 +0000 http://nicolasschudel.name/?p=296#comment-690 Noticed a little bug by me: In DelayedBitmapAnimation, somehow the _progressPercent variable might end up being not exactly 1. If you're checking for the exact 100% as I do, you might wait endlessly. Nicolas, we should add a simple <code> if (_progressPercent >= 1) _progressPercent = 1; </code> after the calculation in line 72. Noticed a little bug by me:
In DelayedBitmapAnimation, somehow the _progressPercent variable might end up being not exactly 1. If you’re checking for the exact 100% as I do, you might wait endlessly.

Nicolas, we should add a simple
if (_progressPercent >= 1) _progressPercent = 1;
 after the calculation in line 72.

]]> By: Yu-Chung Chen http://nicolasschudel.name/bitmap-animations/comment-page-1/#comment-618 Yu-Chung Chen Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:37:14 +0000 http://nicolasschudel.name/?p=296#comment-618 Oh, another addition in DelayedBitmapAnimation: After each draw command, the progress is calculated. Exposed through a getter, the value can be visualized by other means. I wanted to eliminate the freeze after the loading finishes by integrating the state of the frame processing into the overall loading/progress bar. Oh, another addition in DelayedBitmapAnimation:

After each draw command, the progress is calculated. Exposed through a getter, the value can be visualized by other means.

I wanted to eliminate the freeze after the loading finishes by integrating the state of the frame processing into the overall loading/progress bar.

]]> By: Yu-Chung Chen http://nicolasschudel.name/bitmap-animations/comment-page-1/#comment-617 Yu-Chung Chen Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:55:43 +0000 http://nicolasschudel.name/?p=296#comment-617 Great class! Exactly what I needed. Many thanks! A couple of comments: - the play() behavior when added to stage caused me a slight confusion, since normal MovieClips can be stopped before added to stage and stay that way. Also in your example use (my exact case), the BitmapAnimation shouldn't auto-play anyway, but only react to the mouse. - I've added totalFrames and currentFrame getters. - play() updates the _index so currentFrame works properly. Great class! Exactly what I needed.
Many thanks!

A couple of comments:
- the play() behavior when added to stage caused me a slight confusion, since normal MovieClips can be stopped before added to stage and stay that way. Also in your example use (my exact case), the BitmapAnimation shouldn’t auto-play anyway, but only react to the mouse.

- I’ve added totalFrames and currentFrame getters.

- play() updates the _index so currentFrame works properly.

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