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>      Have any of you been working with animation. FLC or FLI files in
>      Authorware?  As I understand these formats, Authorware (APW) stores
>      then internally thus increasing the file size.  In fact, when I tried
>      to load an animation in .FLC Authorware said it had no room.  (It did,
>      it has about 500 MB.)  I'm planning on converting some of these .FLC
>      files to .AVI files to run externally.
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I have used .FLC files with no problems. However, I have come across an
interesting problem - they play slower backwards! In my module I have
simulated the rotation of a microscope section. At first I thought that a
series of images in a .FLC file would be the best way to do this as you can
have a series of variables controlling the forwards and backwards replay of
the .FLC file. This worked fine when playing the movie forwards. However, in
order to simulate a microscope stage you need to be able to "rotate" the
stage anticlockwise as well. This proved a problem. The movie did play
backwards but very slowly. I get the impression that, say, for a sequence of
12 frames, to go from frame 10 to frame 9, Aware steps through frame 11 to
12 then 1 to 9. ie. it can't physically play the movie backwards. This
doesn't cause a problem if the size of each frame is small as in the
rotating globe demo example but it is significant with larger bitmaps. I got
round the problem by using the displaydib function.


Dave Emley                   gga12@keele.ac.uk
Keele University
Keele
Staffordshire
England