Are my Flash demos really *that* bad?

[Spriteworks]

Good evening

I write scripts for a living (among other things) and to prevent the theft of my code (while at the same time trying to provide a decent demonstration of the scripts in action), I spent several days creating Flash demos of all the script. I also kept the old screenshots for people who still prefer using older browsers.

Now, I get this guy who tells me that my screenshots and Flash demos are really horrible and that he wants to be able to test the script himself. I pointed out to him that once the script is posted, there is nothing to stop someone from copying it and that even an encrypted script can be decrypted using a browser's DOM. I also asked him if the Flash demos were really "horrible" (ie; poor quality, slow-loading, too slow/fast, etc) -or- if he meant they were "horrible" simply because they were only demos and he was'nt able to interact with them. His answer was simply "both".

I mean, we're talking about a $4.95 script here with a smooth, non-grainy screenshot and a decent Flash demo showing what the script does. I'm not sure wether this guy is just pulling my leg ot trying to get me to post the code so he can walk off with it without paying. Then again, perhaps the Flash demos really *are* "horrible" which is why I am posting this...to ask you folks to tell me what you think and to render an honest opinion.

The scripts are located at: http://www.spriteworks.com . Just scroll down until you see "Our CSS Widgets" on the left sidebar and have a look at some of the Flash animations. I'd really appreciate it a lot and thank's in advance for any and all opinions I get.


- Regards, SD

 

[Iravan]

They Look Fine to me...

I would offer that person to answer any questions they would have about the script.

The flash demos should suffice for most people, you will find some odd people sometimes, help them best you can and leave it as that!

Good Luck

Iravan

 

[Steamfrog]

Meh one guy... They look fine, a little slow playing, what I mean is increase the frame rate so the animations move a little quicker. They loaded real fast here in Australia.The overall site appearance needs a tweak. The flash animations have live type you need to smooth this by either embedding the characters or breaking the type to a vector,. Ctrl B several times.

Break up the large blocks of text on the top its far too much to read, break it down to dot points and smaller paragraph lenghts as users tend to read these first.

 

[Spriteworks]

Greetings

First of all, I just want to say a big thank you to both of you. I found your advice and information reassuring and very helpful. Your entirely correct about the Flash demos being a little slow SteamFrog. I made them that way intentionally though so that customers would have a little extra viewing time but again, you are probably right - they could stand to be speeded up a bit . Also, I'm not sure what "live type" is and I can't change to vector because I'm using a screen recorder rather that Macromedia's Flash or Swish. I do notice that some of the text (particulaly in the demos where text is scrolled) that the text breaks up and portions of certain letters are missing. Again, thank's a lot for your help. It is greatly appreciated!.

- Regards, SD

 

[Masahiro]

The person who said they were bad probaly wanted to grab the sourcecode, without paying.

Also, don't think about commercial source encryptors. They all can be cracked within a few minutes. In fact, I found my way around one which is supposed to be un crackable - have a go yourselves, their site is http://www.codewarden.com/.

 

[will7]

Everything looks fine to me Maybe, as SteamFrog said, they play a little slowly, but a quick tweak of the framerate should fix that.

I think the guy's just being picky to be honest or he just wanted to steal the source code - the latter probably being the most likely

 

[Wybe]

Yeah they're completely fine. Actually quite an inventive way of demonstrating the basics of your script. He might wonder what happens if you do certain things tho. You could tell him to email you his direct questions, or maybe you can make a movie capture for him :P If I were you, I wouldn't do that and just piss off with an a-hat like that.