Sounds and Buttons - Disappointed

[curiousSK]

I am a little disappointed that many of the newer flash teases aren't using sounds built into the tease, and instead require a secondary website (which is a distraction and stops you from being able to have it full screen for any period of time). Additionally, so far, I haven't seen a single tease that has used black text on the buttons, as is described here http://www.milovana.com/webteases/showf ... p?id=11600 which makes using the tease easier for many people. Obviously a while back there were a number of teases that used sounds and had some really creative button positioning (i'm not sure how you guys did it with two pictures and buttons underneath or how the dice image was put into some), but recently the teases have been lacking.

I do very much appreciate all the tease writers (especially flash teases) who contribute to this site, but the reasons above may be why not many have had very good ratings (the last 20 many have ratings around 2-3stars, with only a couple getting 4).

So yeah, if you have written a flash tease, AND you want some good ratings, why not just go the extra mile and add a few sound clips (metronome or voice) and/or add some flavour to the buttons.

Just my two-cents.

Regards

[Nezhul]

http://www.milovana.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4355
http://www.milovana.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5926

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34#page('',horiz(vert(pic('1.jpg'),button('1',page1#)),vert(pic('2.jpg'),button('2',page2#))));  

not sure about syntaxis (been awhile since I'v made anything in nyx), but something like that.

1) horiz() is a function that makes all elements inside it to be places horizontally in the screen. In our case it's 2 elements i.e. 2 vert() functions, i.e. 2 columns that consist of picture and button (may be anything there at all)
2) vert() is the same but it places everything inside vertically.

[ballsfull]

So yeah, if you have written a flash tease, AND you want some good ratings, why not just go the extra mile and add a few sound clips (metronome or voice) and/or add some flavour to the buttons.

Well, in my experience, it's a LOT more complicated to add sounds than it should be....
The "Nyx" code doesn't lend itself well to easy addition of sounds (it's a VERY convoluted and user non-friendly), and in addition, if for some reason you make an edit to something (even completely UNRELATED to sounds) in the tease, you have to go through the whole specific process AGAIN to make sound work....

So, unless the writer has a LOT of time.....AND the desire to learn and keep up with an entirely strange process.....AND be willing to re-do that process for ANY changes or edits to their original tease.....it just doesn't seem worth it....

As for the black text for the buttons, I agree with you, and it seems odd that black text ~isn't~ the default button text color... Oh well....

But good comments... Thanks...

[Nezhul]

in addition, if for some reason you make an edit to something (even completely UNRELATED to sounds) in the tease, you have to go through the whole specific process AGAIN to make sound work....

thats because the editor doesn't recognize some functions (they are in the engine, but the EDITOR itself doesnt support them). So when you edit a page in visual editor, it actually deletes the old code of it (with your sound), and writes a new one instead of it - with all the info you'v got in VISUAL EDITOR, but as far as there's no means to specify any sound in visual mode, it doesnt add any.

In short - the editor is simply not complete. It's beta as you can see.