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Inspiring
July 26, 2011
Question

What Is Better?

  • July 26, 2011
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Two quick questions...

1. Are scene's the only way to make pages in the flash IOS development?

2. whats better touch events or mouse events?

thank you for looking and possible responding 

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Colin Holgate
Inspiring
July 26, 2011

In a sense, scenes don't make pages, you would still have to include a stop(); action to make playback stop on those scenes, and you could do that just as well within one scene, perhaps by having some frame labels, and a stop(); action on each label's frame. You can add a keyframe in the layer you are using for that script, and have several stop(); points along the timeline.

If you're not doing multitouch, and a mousedown works fine, there's no need to use touch events. You can just use mouse events, but also use gesture events too.

One advantage of using mouse events is that the same swf would work in a browser.

Inspiring
July 26, 2011

okok thanks for the response,

would a scene require more storage or space? as in if it was published would the size of a file be a concern?

Colin Holgate
Inspiring
July 26, 2011

I doubt that it would be any significant amount different in size. You could fairly easily test that. I've used scenes with apps that have a lot of animation in them, where by the nature of the animation it was more convenient to break the story up into scenes. I haven't used scenes for just setting up a few destination pages, for that I would just do it in one scene. Having it in one scene allows you to easily have some interface elements be shared across more than one of your screen layouts.