Flash Loop problem - maybe

**Chris** · 14 July 2007, 08:15 PM

I am working on a glass globe that is spinning. I have it ready but it will not loop. I have the loop option checked. Anyone have any ideas to why or is there something else I need to do?

Thanks

**aridzone** · 14 July 2007, 11:19 PM

Try changing the loop to 2 times and see if that works, then change it back to loop continuously.

**Chris** · 14 July 2007, 11:28 PM

Thanks for the tip. I actually ended up just adding more frames to the design and it worked out. I will have to do some more tweaking but it is working.

Here is what I got so far. It didn't take long at all to do. I was shocked. It is attached. I did this using clipview. Is anyone else seeing the white space on each side of the globe? I tried removing it.

**raynerj1** · 15 July 2007, 03:25 AM

do you mean the background? the globe has a white background with a grey shadow. Try putting a background behind the globe if you want something other than white. As far as I know a flash window is retangular like a jpg. You can't have a transparent background like a gif/png.

**Chris** · 15 July 2007, 03:31 AM

Sorry I wasn't clear.

I was talking about when I use clipview it hides the design off to the left and right of the circle. Once I export it as a .swf file I get the extra white space on the left and the right. For some reason it is acting like there is something on the left and the right of the globe. I thought clipview was suppose to keep that from happening. Hope that makes more since.

Any clipview pros out there.

**aridzone** · 15 July 2007, 06:14 PM

Very nice globe Chris

Check every frame, on one of the frames you probably have something outside of the norm

**Chris** · 15 July 2007, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by aridzone

Very nice globe Chris

Check every frame, on one of the frames you probably have something outside of the norm

Thanks for the comment. I will play around with it some more today. Hopefully a fresh mind will help.

Thanks again.

**jamesmc** · 15 July 2007, 11:20 PM

It's because clipview isn't supported by Flash.

Take a look how it is compiled in Swish because the clipview is not grouped.

You may need to group each clipview to get the desired effect.

**Chris** · 15 July 2007, 11:34 PM

I will try that then. Thanks again for the answers I did get.

I went ahead and made it an animated gif. Seems to be OK so far. Here is what I ended up with for the animation.

**jamesmc** · 16 July 2007, 12:09 AM

Looks good to me. You can probably lower it to 16 colors rather than 256 colors and make it half the file size (since the number of colors isn't really important.) Check it out in the GIF options and try a reduced color version. I bet you get about a 20K file instead of a 50K file.