Scenes

[Maqrkk]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to Flash and I was wondering, what do scenes do? I made some basic stuff and Flash and never used scenes, should I?

[icio]

Scenes are terrible for most things. If all that you're doing is animating then you might find that they help, but if there is any decent amount of actionscript in your project then it will be a nightmare for you.

[Maqrkk]

It's mostly actionscript, so I guess I won't bother then, thanks.

[glosrfc]

Scenes are a just a way of organising large, complex animations for which they can be useful. However, they should generally be avoided for the following reasons:

Because it's easy to add scenes, it encourages the creation of larger FLA's and a single SWF rather than loading smaller SWF's. This means forcing users to download the entire SWF rather than just the SWF's they want to view.

Because each scene has its own timeline, it can mean that your code gets scattered around the FLA, making it harder to locate and edit in the future.

When your FLA is compiled, all scene information is discarded and any actionscript is compressed into a single timeline. This can make your project difficult to debug and introduce unwanted errors.