How to produce this kind of animation?
in [UK Mac]
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From: Geoff Berrow on 26 Mar 2010 04:25 On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:27:59 +0000, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >> BTW, I see none of those things you see with Flash, and I'm using an >> inferior PC. > >Yes, of course not. > >Tell me, the man who sold you the kit in question, after you'd signed >away your soul in blood, did he vanish in a puff of sulphurous smoke? Now you are being silly. > >'cos only a pact with the devil can stop Flash crashing and thrashing >and being a security risk. PC fans don't change speed. At least not so that I have ever been able to notice. So unless I look at my desktop CPU meter I can't detect any difference. I can't help thinking that the change in noise and your emotive language (thrashing) means that this particular aspect of a Macs behaviour is having an undesirable psychological effect. A CPU has no moving parts - it cannot thrash. TTBOMK Flash has never crashed a machine I have used nor any of the students' machines in my five years teaching IT. As far as I am concerned the capacity of my CPU is there to be used, what's the point in having it otherwise? Flash may well be a security risk but it can't be that much of a security risk because the vast majority of internet users use it quite happily. Likewise Javascript and particularly AJAX have improved the browsing experience no end. But by all means continue wearing your hair shirt if it makes you feel better. -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Woody on 26 Mar 2010 05:01 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > [snip] > > > As I said, flash is great for some things (games etc) where there is > > nothing that does what it does. > > True, but you could impmlement the same stuff using different tech. You > don't have to do it the same way. And that would give you what? A more complex way of doing the same thing? > > For adverts there are blockers for it, so it is not so bad in that. > > Flashblock extension - Firefox. Blocks any Flash, advertising or not. > Plenty of non-advertising Flash is obnoxious - it mostly adds nothing > but annoyance, delays, security risks, unreliability, and CPU load. As I said. > >If > > adobe had put some effort into security it would be a bit better. > > Processor efficiency and code reliability are serious problems too. Code reliability in this case covers security. I haven't had any crashing flash, as if it crashes it just doesn't work. > Crashing and thrashing, that's what I most lurve about Flash. Never had any bad effects from crashing. > > > > Back to my OP... the tools (apart from flash) used to create the > > > animation are... ? > > > > What other tools would there be apart from flash? > > > > Well, something to make some of the individual graphics, but you can use > > anything for that. > > Hexedit's not such a cool tool for that job. If you are daft enough, you can do anything. Small bitmaps with hexedit are easy enough. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Woody on 26 Mar 2010 05:01 Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:27:59 +0000, > real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: > > >> BTW, I see none of those things you see with Flash, and I'm using an > >> inferior PC. > > > >Yes, of course not. > > > >Tell me, the man who sold you the kit in question, after you'd signed > >away your soul in blood, did he vanish in a puff of sulphurous smoke? > > Now you are being silly. > > > >'cos only a pact with the devil can stop Flash crashing and thrashing > >and being a security risk. > > PC fans don't change speed. What PC have you got that doesn't control its fan speed? Presumably nothing made in the last 20 years! -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Peter Ceresole on 26 Mar 2010 05:01 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > Crashing and thrashing, that's what I most lurve about Flash. > > Never had any bad effects from crashing. And neither have I. -- Peter
From: Jim on 26 Mar 2010 05:10
On 2010-03-26, Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: >> >>'cos only a pact with the devil can stop Flash crashing and thrashing >>and being a security risk. > > PC fans don't change speed. They most certainly do. Or, at least, every PC I've used that was made in the last 3 or 4 years can alter fan speeds. I've got a Fujitsu behind me that sounds like a hovercraft at times, then calms down. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash. |