FLASH: Flash to HTML and back

[Kath]

Hi again,


I've a question this time - probably a strange question :-)


On my own site (Home of Cyber Kat) I've had the same intro for some time,

using meta refresh to pull people into my "house."  The house graphic is

one I made in Corel Photopaint ages ago, but I really like it - I've a

"thing" for old Victorian houses.


I've redone the house image as a vector graphic in Corel Draw (I know it's

heresy, but I actually prefer Corel to Adobe - ::ducking multiple

projectiles::).  It took forever because it's quite complex, but I'm rather

pleased with the result ::patting self on the back::  


I brought it into Photopaint and converted it to a .jpg to use in a

redesign of the intro.  Now I've discovered Flash and I want to use a lot

of it in my redesign - buuut I know that Flash is going to chew up that

house and spit it out, no matter what I do.


If I bring it into Flash as a raster image, when I export the .fla it's

going to lose all the detail I worked so hard to include - not to mention

that, uncompressed, it's a huge file.  If I bring it in as a vector image,

I'll lose all my gradients and recreating them in Flash will take forever

::groan::


So here's what I've been thinking about, but I haven't a clue whether it

will work.


I thought of doing a little Flash - zooming in on my sign (I can redo the

current one as a vector in flash, then a distant view of the house (as a

small .jpg in Flash) then I can use "get URL" to bring in an HTML file of

the house image.  I'm thinking perhaps I can use a meta refresh tag in the

HTML page to get the rest of my movie.


What do you think?  Has anyone tried this?  If it works I think it has some

interesting possibilities re: combining Flash movies and HTML in a

(somewhat?) seamless fashion.


 Kath the Cyber Kat ...         

(

cyberkatcybernex [dot] net

)


"Imagination is intelligence at play"


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