Placing one group many times in the same card
Scott Rossi
scott at tactilemedia.com
Wed Mar 30 12:23:21 EST 2005
Recently, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
> i've been working with an animated png
> within a group.(as show in this stack:
> <http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/Vector_Animation_Wouter.zip>
>
> Within the group, i've included a series of
> vector graphics that works as hotspots over
> the bitmap png images.
>
> The whole interaction works fine...
> i click in a hotspot of the animation
> and it animates, click again
> over another hotspot and it animates again...
>
> but How could i repeat this group many times
> in the same card, like Flash do with Movie Clips
> instances???
>
> Notice that recreating the group contents everytime
> that i need a new "instance" of the group will
> add a lot of size to the stack.
If I understand what you're trying to do, you could place a button in the
group which references the source image (offscreen or in a substack) as an
icon. That way you could have 100+ references to the same image with
virtually no additional filesize.
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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