Flash Limits

[system]

well not really a limit but something nice to know for those frustrated with some textboxes not showing up text…:sigh:

If you have “bold” on and you are trying to load htmlText into the textbox, it wont show up for some reason… just found that out today.

-Aditya

[system]

it shows up, just need to make sure your embedding the bold version too when using it :sigh:

[system]

Yeah, I remember when I went through that issue, I almost went insane. It took me a few days to finally find out that you have to embed the individual normal, bold, and italic versions of the font.

[system]

lol sorry about that…
should I just keep my post in there or delete it?

Thanks,
Aditya

[system]

they are considered different versions of the same font…

when you install a new font family, you will install several, sometimes as much as 9 diff fonts…

…and the client always seems to use one that you don’t own…

Rev

[system]

wow…its great which i waited for this…

actually i ask this flash limits question in some other forum but i got here…

thanks guys

flashmani

[system]

this can be added

[color=black]You can use up to 26 shape hints.[/color]

[lorenelks]

[SIZE=1]Hi:
Are you limited to a max amount of height in a movie clip? I have this
scrolling pane with a movieclip in it. When you scroll the pane, the mc inside scrolls up or down.

The mc inside has text. I can’t seem make it taller than 4000. Is this a physical limit of Flash.

Is there a more efficient way to make a scroll pane (window), that will scroll a movieclip through it?

Thanks,
Loren
[/SIZE]

@senocular

I think its a good idea to set some known limits to Flash - things which are good to be aware of for future reference and if not, something to just be impressed or enamored with

here are some things Ive jotted down recently. Ill add more as I think of them

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[SIZE=4]Flash limits[/SIZE]

[DOCUMENT]
size:
-[SIZE=1]width[/SIZE]: 1 to 2880
-[SIZE=1]height[/SIZE]: 1 to 2880

drawing extents within:
-[SIZE=1]width[/SIZE]: -720 to document width + 720
-[SIZE=1]height[/SIZE]: -720 to document height + 720

-[SIZE=1]grid spacing[/SIZE]: 7.2 to 288
-[SIZE=1]frame rate[/SIZE]: .01 to 120
-[SIZE=1]frames[/SIZE]: 16000
-[SIZE=1]layers[/SIZE]: 16000
-[SIZE=1]movieclip instances[/SIZE]: 16000
-[SIZE=1]loaded movies (in levels)[/SIZE]: 16000

[MOVIECLIP]
drawing extents within:
-[SIZE=1]width[/SIZE]: -720 to 720
-[SIZE=1]height[/SIZE]: -720 to 720 (1440x1440)

-[SIZE=1]_xscale/_yscale values[/SIZE]: ~ 3276800
-[SIZE=1]_alpha values[/SIZE]: 256
-[SIZE=1]_alpha steps[/SIZE]: ~ .4 (don’t increment _alpha below that value)
-[SIZE=1]_x/_y steps[/SIZE]: .05 (don’t increment _x/_y below that value)
-[SIZE=1]_rotation[/SIZE]: -180 to 180 (you can set it to values beyond these but will revert to a value in that range)
-[SIZE=1]_rotation steps[/SIZE]: .1 (_rotation wont be seen in increments below that value)
-[SIZE=1]attached clips before drastic attachMovie speed drop[/SIZE]: ~ 800-1000 (common in grid creation; creating new clips to attach groups of clips, like each row, to will reduce the slowdown)

[TEXT]
-[SIZE=1]characters in a textfield[/SIZE]: ~63000 (?)
-[SIZE=1]rotation of dynamic or input textfields w/o embedded fonts or static w/ device fonts[/SIZE]: 0 (no rotation)
-[SIZE=1]max size of POST data (loadVars and XML Objects etc)[/SIZE]: around 64k
-[SIZE=1]characters for URLs set in Character panel[/SIZE]: 127

[SCRIPTING]
depths:
-[SIZE=1]depths of existence[/SIZE]: -16384 to 2130690045
[SIZE=1](createEmptyMovieClip can surpass these values in creation but not always accurate
max reliable: 2147483647, min reliable: -2147483648)[/SIZE]
-[SIZE=1]removable depths[/SIZE]: 0 to 1048575

-[SIZE=1]recursive function call levels[/SIZE]: 256
-[SIZE=1]loop calls[/SIZE]: processor dependant, 15 or 20 seconds until timeout

[MISC]
-[SIZE=1]Flash Player zoom[/SIZE]: 2000%
-[SIZE=1]line thickness (Flash authoring)[/SIZE]: .1 to 10
-[SIZE=1]line thickness (AS)[/SIZE]: 0 to 256 (increments of 1; 0 is hairline)
-[SIZE=1]size of imported bitmap[/SIZE]: 5x5 minimum
-[SIZE=1]shape hints[/SIZE]: 0 to 26

==============================================

suggestions welcome and will be added to this list

[jnbeck]

I ran into a limitation with exporting out files with a third party projector.

The flash player will not allow you to export a string over 30kb.

Screen Weaver Forums

[vintage]

I made a slideshow that loads the pictures from a xml file.
I havent really experimented with it, but if I use more than 99 pictures, flash starts to freak and only load 3 pictures (piece of the xml)
so 100 is probably a limit ?

<mijnSlideShow>
<titel>slideshow 1</titel> 

    <foto>
      <adres>toet.jpg</adres> 
      <verhaaltje>bla bla<verhaaltje /> 
    </foto>
    <foto>
      <adres>meep.jpg</adres> 
      <verhaaltje>weep woei<verhaaltje /> 
    </foto>
    <foto>
      <adres>blaat.jpg</adres> 
      <verhaaltje>hoppa<verhaaltje /> 
    </foto>

<!-- 99 times <foto> jpg </foto> -->

</mijnSlideShow>