Problem with scaling, or whatever flash mx does

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When I trie to build an interface out of single pics, flash mx really drives me insane.

So here are a few questions:

  1. Is there an option to generally disable the smoothing/antialiasing effekt for pictures? (german glätten) Cause until now I have to take each single pic and change its properties …

  2. Is there a way that flash MX automatically only positiones on “whole” pixels, so things like x=15.7 or so wont be possible anymore?

  3. Is there an option to select that flash MX really shows me how the final swf will look? cause its always differently … buttons change there height with one pixel and so on

  4. Sometimes when I make a motion tween and only change the alpha, it looks like the size of the object also changes over the process … is that just me? ;))

hum thats it for the moment, here a example for the thing with the unexactly pixel things …

http://www.uni-ulm.de/1337w4rri0rz/test/menuetest4.html

(menuetest4.fla also avaiable in that directory)

thanks in towards, buddy

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Can’t see anything wrong in the link :-\ It’s just a button, right?

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look at the top of the button … there is a wrong color line, as the button is supposed to be one pixel further down …

but in flashMX it looks right … just the swf doesnt

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Oh yeah, I can see it now. Sorry, I have no idea what could cause that :-\

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hum thanks anyway!

maybe anyone else can help me?

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SOLUTIONS SO FAR:

set the instance: “alpha” to 99% (instead of 100% or no effect)
–> avoids the size moving while fading to alpha 0%

STILL MISSING:

why cant I insert the button on the correct height? It was a whole piece in photoshop and I just copied it out …

but now the size isnt fitting anymore it seems.

http://www.uni-ulm.de/1337w4rri0rz/test/menuetest5.html

http://www.uni-ulm.de/1337w4rri0rz/test/menuetest5.fla

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Well the alpha thing…i think that is just you :-\

and for the thing above, i think that might be something to do with quality. Not really sure…

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i am not smoothing anything, nor scaling, and I set the pics on no compression …

:eye:

but the flash file looks hum … colorless? to me … how many colors does flash use? and is there any differences in motion tweens there?

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eeeewww flash sucks on these… anyhu, i suggest
• trim off your extra shape on your button… i mean what is left off is the oval shape button only… or
• set the _alpha as what you have said then add this odd code…

 _quality="LOW" Stage.scaleMode = "noScale"