Hi

I'm soon doing some workshops with children using flash to produce an
animation. I want each kid at a computer to work on a different scene and then
pull all the scenes together.

Is there a way I can get the children to work on the same file at the same
time or automatically pull the scenes together so i can show them it as it
progresses ?

Any ideas would be great !

Thanks
David

I'dont think there is a way to do to that way, but if you build a clip that
just loads all the pubished swfs (on a network folder i guess) that clip can
show all swf in sequence, and making it a litte intelligent by checkinf for
_framestotal, you wouldnt have to do anything else but name the filse in a
predefined way...

Yeah sort of know what u mean - thanks

Would have thought flash would have some kind of contents management system by now with so many studio's using it

Hi David,

I thougt the task was easy, and your cause noble (kds and beeing a dad
myselfe...) so i prepared a little exapmle. It's quick and dirty (it doesnt
check for loadevents, or might even have problems with eventsounds but should
do as first try). Im going to post it somwhere to download.

If your interested, take a look, and ask whatever you want.

I think, that there is no real reason to develop a producht you'd like to see
for Macromedia, as I don't see many usecases. In most cases working on
different FLAs, and puting them together after publishing seems the better
solution, and is practiced widely.

What you would want to have is something like a version of Photoshop, where
different persons could work simultamiously at one Picture, and I dont see that
coming soon. (Maybe it'could be a new form of art)

On the other hand, it might be a good thing if Macromedia would provide an
option to append a Fla to one another as new scenes. That seems to be a feture
that is requested quite often in this Forum. And shouldn't be to hard to do.

Ah i see - nice idea ! Thank you very much for that and i now understand it
enough to be able to use it.

I mainly use Adobe CS so just imagined I could link clips and then they could
automatically update themselves like it does in golive.

Thanks again.
David

btw - i like your web site and photo menu (beautiful pictures!)

Hi David,

seems you're the nosy one (like me) ;-).

My son is much older now, not yet to school though, but I just quite never came around. Thanks for the compliment.