Does anyone actually USE the Animation Builder?

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 20 11:48:25 EST 2004


--- Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out why animations built in the
> Animation Builder 
> perform so miserably once you've left the AB
> environment. I've searched 
> the archives and have found several queries on this
> subject, but no one 
> seems to know the answer.
> 
> Specifically, if you create an animation in the AB
> it plays back 
> smoothly as long as you are in that environment. But
> as soon as you 
> close the Animation Builder window and try to play
> back the animation 
> using revPlayAnimation, the playback is jerky, jumpy
> and generally 
> unacceptable. This behavior does not improve when
> you compile the stack 
> as a standalone executable.
> 
> So back to my original question: Can animations
> created in the 
> Animation Builder actually be used in applications,
> or is the AB just a 
> fun toy to play around with?
> 
> Devin Asay
> 

Hi Devin,

The only thing I can think of right away, is to turn
on the 'alwaysBuffer' property of the stack.

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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