So I’ve run into an issue I was not expecting…
I have written a custom component in CS5 and exported it as an SWC. It works fine and dandy if I place it on a timeline with one frame. It compiles in a timely manner, and ends up being 33k in size… However if I extend the timeline to say… 240 frames (10 seconds), and do nothing else (the component persists on all frames) it takes several orders of magnitude longer to compile (from a couple seconds to a few minues). YET… the compiled swf remains exactly the same size (down to the last byte).
I’m assuming the compiler is doing some sort of optimization… But I’d like to know what’s going on… It should not take that long to compile the video, and makes the component practically useless…
I know there aren’t many people doing Components (especially in Flash), but I figured I’d ask.
