Frequently Asked Questions
- What’s the relationship between Sothink SWF Easy and Glanda?
- Why I got “Flash Banner Maker” when I previewed or exported the animation?
- What are *.GLS, *.GLB, *.GLM formats?
- What are vector graphic formats the program supports?
- Some elements are covered by others, how can I select them?
- What is the difference between static text and dynamic text?
- Can I edit the effect once I add an effect to an element?
- Can I edit multiple effects to an element?
- I have added motion path to an element, but the element did not move along this motion path, what’s wrong?
- Can I add ActionScript to my animation?
- What is Auxiliary Scene? How to use it? Is it different from background?
- Which link will be opened if you add different links to the scene and the object in this scene?
What’s the relationship between Sothink SWF Easy and Glanda?
After Sothink Glanda 4.2, the name of the software is changed to be Sothink SWF Easy. Current version SWF Easy 6.0 continues to support all the features of Glanda 4.2. Besides that, it has many new features like, supporting background scene, video insertion, importing a SWF file as a single movie clip, and supporting Action Script 2.0 completely. You may check Introduction in the Help for details.
Why I got “Flash Banner Maker” when I previewed or exported the animation?
That’s because you are using the trial version of Sothink SWF Easy. If you register the program, there will be no such text on every animation you created.
What are *.GLS, *.GLB, *.GLM formats?
*. GLS: SWF Easy Shape file.
*. GLB: SWF Easy Button file.
*. GLM: SWF Easy Movie Clip file. This file type can be also exported in Sothink SWF Quicker.
What are vector graphic formats the program supports?
Vector graphic format supported (standard bitmap image format) are following:
WMF / EMF : Windows Metafile format, vector graphics
SVG : Standard Vector Graphics, vector graphics
Some elements are covered by others, how can I select them?
You can use Tab/Shift+Tab to select the elements.
What is the difference between static text and dynamic text?
The dynamic text is different from the static text. The static text cannot be updated dynamically, while the dynamic text has the ability. You can bind an ActionScript variable to a dynamic text. When the value of the variable is changed, the content of the dynamic text can be updated immediately, and vice versa. The format of every character of the dynamic type should be the same, such as font, font size and color, but the static one might be various.
Can I edit the effect once I add an effect to an element?
Yes. You have fully control on the effect you’ve added. You can edit its start/end time, length, loop, settings, and so on.
Can I edit multiple effects to an element?
Yes. In Sothink SWF Easy, you can add more than one effect to elements. By default, the element plays effect by effect. You can even create totally new effects with the unique technology of Sothink SWF Easy– Effect Stacking .
I have added motion path to an element, but the element did not move along this motion path, what’s wrong?
This problem normally happened when you added more than 2 motion paths to an element. Suppose you’ve added 2 motion paths to an element. In this case, the second motion path shown on the canvas is not the real location where the element will move. Actually, the start point of the second motion path is the end point of the first motion path. So the element maybe move outside of the canvas and what you saw was the element did not move along motion path you defined. To solve the problem, you need to adjust the path direction to let the element move within the canvas.
Can I add ActionScript to my animation?
Yes. In Sothink SWF Easy, you can add any customized actions to a scene and an element, which could be shape, button, text, movie clip, and etc.
What is Auxiliary Scene? How to use it? Is it different from background?
Auxiliary Scene is used to be the background of main scene. You can set more than one auxiliary scenes to be background of one main scene. And each auxiliary scene used, is a part of the background. About the details please refer to Main Scene Properties and Auxiliary Scene Properties in the Help.
While background, which is totally different from auxiliary scene, is some element on canvas in fact, like image, shape, text or movie clip. You can set element to be background of a main scene or an auxiliary scene. But the operation is done on the main scene or auxiliary scene since the background is a part of scene.
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Which link will be opened if you add different links to the scene and the object in this scene?
Maybe you need to add a link to a scene; at the same time, you also add a different link to object which is in this scene. When playing this Flash movie, even you click this object in this movie, the scene link will be opened instead of object link. That is to say, the scene link is superior than object link when adding different links to the scene and the object in this scene.