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I've been playing with sIFR for a menu, but the font looks horrible. Flash 8 has a new rendering algorithm for fonts. Has anyone made sIFR work with Flash 8? I Googled, but I could not find anything useful besides http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?pid=87247 which is totally worthless.
Example: http://www.studioindustryllc.com/misc/new-layout/mockup.html -
- CommentAuthordmitryseliv
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2006
Hi!
I looked at it one time but I don't see any point of using it.
It doesn't make much sense to use Flash in a first place if you ask me but if you like experiments go for it.
Best, DS -
It makes sense using sIFR because one can use any font for headlines.
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Spooky, I've been looking into this as well - in fact I'm on the textdrive forum thread you've linked to above - havn't found any answers myself I'm afraid - although have asked on quite a few sIFR threads and other forums.
Did you get anywhere at all? I was hoping to use Flash 8 on a site I'm working on at the moment that's got some pretty small header gifs in it...
Fingers crossed that Flash 8 support is included in v3 of sIFR and that it comes out soon! -
It is included in sIFR 3. Look in the SVN. I doubt that sIFR 3 will be released any time soon. I've made some progess, but it's not working fully. I've documented what I have managed to do in that thread. sIFR was coded poorly (at least the Flash part). Some things were assumed. For example:
bar += foo.
"bar" is undefined, and you get "undefined" at the beginning of the string.
bar = "";
bar += foo;
This fixes it.
Flash 8 does not like crappy code like that anymore.
I looked at the sIFR3 code a little. It's a lot more complicated. They switched to ActionScript 2.0, meaning it's object based now, and it takes advantage of more complicated Flash features, like the CSS parser. I don't remember the URL, just google sIFR SVN. -
The problem is that I don't know Flash much, and the Flash debugger stinks.
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Ah well, sounds like it way beyond me as I really need this as well..... sigh.
Looking at the latest comments at http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/10/sifr-3-request-for-requests.php v3 should be out by the Summer though! -
I haven't tested it yet myself, but the TEST version of the sIFR 2.0.2 patch apparently allows you to export as Flash 8. Mark's got the details + download over at his blog: http://novemberborn.net/sifr/test-2.0.2
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Thank you. I've been playing with sIFR 3.0 and could not get it to work.
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