Slice and dice

[steve.ledger]

Yeh - and that hat doesn't suit him at all..

[-=Drifter=-]

Hahahaha. Great stuff, Egg, and thanks for the cool idea. I just created a goofy one of my friend's face and somebody else's and emailed it. What a riot!
(I had to put it in the email as a gif so it displayed in the body of the email itself. .Swf gets there only as an attachment, unfortunately. Unless someone here knows a way to do it.)

[Egg Bramhill]

I've no idea about sending swf's via email Bob. In fact it depends on how the receiver has their email client set up whether they'll see your gif either. Perhaps the best bet is to post it on photobucket or similar site and email a link to the the attachment.

[raynerj1]

I haven't tried it in a while, but you could try sending yourself a picture from out of the forum (Write click and selelct the location from the properties of the pic). If you get it, post it here then send it. Many websites do not premit it's graphics from being used except from within it's own webpages.

[-=Drifter=-]

Sending animated gifs in emails and viewing them in emails (in the body of the mail, not as attachments) has always worked for me and my friends. It is sending .swf files that has never worked. I always have to ftp the file to a site of mine and then put the url in my email or send the .swf as an attachment. I was just wondering if anyone has ever solved this and actually sent a flash diddy in the body of their email.

[handrawn]

discussion about this here Bob
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...ight=swf+email

[steve.ledger]

It can be done with manually crafted html stationary, but bear in mind that these days .swf in emails are mostly regarded as spam by mail servers and treated as such.
There are many reasons not to do it.

As Egg pointed out, your intended recipient/s must have their email client set to view html (aka: Rich Text) by default. If they don't, they will only see plain text emails, which are the safest (and original) type. Therefore your .swf would simply appear as an attachment after all (if it hasn't been stripped by the spam filter).
They'd also need the right version of flash player installed.
.gif is subject to the same rules (minus needing a player), so obviously all your friends have their clients set to view html.

Uploading your flash and supplying the link is really the best method. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/icons/icon14.gif
Personally I'm glad when people provide links to rich media content, because I get to chose whether I download and view it or not

Perhaps you chould create a new topic in the OT forum regarding emailing of rich media?

[steve.ledger]

discussion about this here Bob
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...ight=swf+email

Thanks for finding that thread Steve.

[-=Drifter=-]

Thanks for that link, handrawn. I have continued my quest to solve this by posting in that thread.