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14. May 2007 at 12:23
 
A demo that I'm working on...audio is being recorded and will hopefully be added soon.
 
http://www.robrode.com/Breeze_demos/myIdentity/
 
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Reply #1 - 14. May 2007 at 12:29
 
Wow, you put mine to shame!
 
Are the mouseovers done in Flash? What else did you do in Flash vs. Breeze/Connect?  
 
THanks for sharing!
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Reply #2 - 14. May 2007 at 13:32
 
Lisa,  
 
That was NOT intended to put anyone to shame...I'm merely trying to expand the horizons that's all!
 
The easiest way for you to tell which is flash vs. ppt is this: anything that has a white rounded rectangle is flash.  The client wanted rounded edges on just about everything.  The problem with flash, however, is that it always renders out with squared edges.  Solution:  create a ppt-based object and stick it behind the flash animation!
 
And yes, all mouseovers are done in flash.  The reason for that is simple too: you can't use ppt's action controls when converting a deck into Breeze content; it strips it all away, so I was left with a flash solution to make it work.  And the truth is that its extremely easy to do.
 
All the images/photos are png files developed in photoshop.
 
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Reply #3 - 14. May 2007 at 14:24
 
Well, I certainly need to learn Flash, then!  You've done some really impressive things there!
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Reply #4 - 10. Jun 2008 at 18:49
 

This is absolutely stunning. Here's hoping that your audio is terrific as everything else.  
I didn't understand what you meant about creating a ppt-based object and putting it behind a flash animation.  Do you have a simple way to describe that?
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Reply #5 - 10. Jun 2008 at 21:37
 
Hi lhellmer, and thanks for joining the forum!
 
What I meant by the ppt-based object is this:
 
The effect of the rounded-corner rectangle is acheived by using the round corner rectangle tool in PowerPoint.  The point in all this is that a flash animation will always give you squared-off edges, EVEN IF you used round-edged graphics while developing your artwork in Flash.
 
So...with that in mind, I simply inserted my swf files onto the ppt slide and then created a round-edged rectangle in ppt and sent that object behind the flash swf file, using the "Send to Back" command...and the result is the effect you saw in that demo.
 
Hope that makes sense!
 
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Reply #6 - 17. Jun 2008 at 15:08
 
Hi Barrett!
 
First of all, I just wanted to apologize for the delay in responding...and it also seems that despite my attempt to split your earlier post into 2 separate posts, that I accidentally killed your post!!!!
 
RATS!
 
In any event, just to clear the air regarding the use of a logo to replace the default Adobe logo, there's a couple of things to keep in mind:
 
First, it's always good practice to use vector artwork whenever you can...because unlike bitmap graphics (gifs, jpgs, pngs), vectors won't distort or pixelate if you resize/rescale a presentation (or the browser window to be more specific).
 
I've also read similar comments about placing a "logo.swf' in the Template directory of a presentation.  And while I'm at it, the course you viewed on Racial Competency was originally built using Breeze 5.1/Presenter 6 (the upgrading of our plugin occured after the course was being developed), so the process of including/replacing the logo is slightly different than what you'd do in the Presenter 7 environment.
 
That said, the problem you described about how your logo seems to move over the play/pause button in the playbar area is more about how the swf file is dynamically positioned...rather than something being wrong with the logo itself.  So let's talk about that next...
 
For starters, back in Flash, what you might want to try is moving your logo to the far, left edge of the Flash stage.  Remember...by the time the swf file is loaded into the presentation, there's roughly 15-25 pixels between it and the left-most edge of the playbar area anyway, so moving your logo to the left edge of your stage in Flash can only help.  From there, publish the file and include in your presentation as you normally would.
 
What I will tell you is this: it might actually be worth trying a slightly different approach.  With Breeze 5/Presenter 6, the dimension of the logo.swf was sized at 50x29...I'd be curious to know what your results would be if you used that stage dimension rather than the recommended 47 x 27 size.  I'm thinking that Presenter, because the logo.swf file is dynamically placed, might also dynamically resize the logo...and with extra pixels given to the width of the stage, it might actually help!
 
Of course, you could always opt for a much simpler solution: removing the Adobe logo, leaving a blank area in the playbar.  That's extremely easy to do.  Simply create a blank, content-less 47 x 27 flash file, publish it and drop it into the Template directory.  No more Adobe logo!
 
Now...as for your second question...about sychronizing flash animations to ppt objects, I'd like to answer that in the Troubleshooting forum (this post already got too long!).  I'll bet other folks have run into similar circumstances (or may have the same question!), so I'd like to capture it where others can access that info too!  So stay tuned!
 
Hope that helps,
 
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Reply #7 - 17. Jun 2008 at 15:14
 
Thanks so much Rob.
 
As always, your answers are thorough and complete enough that even a new user like myself can understand.
 
After reviewing the content, I decided to go with your final approach of creating a blank logo.swf to simply remove the Adobe logo.  Our material shares our brand enough, so a cleaner looking player turned out to be the more elegant solution.  
 
I'll look for your Flash tips elsewhere (I had read the other post just before I tried to reply...) :^)
 
Thanks for the tips!
 
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Reply #8 - 17. Jun 2008 at 15:19
 
Yeah, that was me being an idiot...I split the comment not realizing that it would disappear from this thread!
 
Sorry Barrett!
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