RE: FLASH: GoTo Action failure (VERY creepy)

[Marcel Trenchard]

Thanks Eric...**You Da Man**, I think your on the right track. I'll try

using the MC's and Tell Target calls. The bitmaps that i'm trying to preload

appear later in the course and are mostly ornamental and secondary to the

instructional-text information. What I'm trying to do is provide the option

of skipping over the preloading of the bitmaps, instead of forcing the end

user to wait. I figured that many of the bitmaps would be loading while the

user was reading the text for the course if they take the option of skipping

the preloader. 


Thanks again,

marcel


> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Eric Smollin [SMTP:esmollinPLANSOFT [dot] com]

> Sent:	Friday, June 25, 1999 1:41 PM

>

To: 'flashershocker [dot] com'

> Subject:	RE: FLASH: GoTo Action failure (VERY creepy)

> 

> Hi Marcel.

> 

> >I'm building a preloader where each frame contains a  bitmap. Once a

> bitmap

> >loads the timeline should progress to the next frame and load another

> >bitmap. I have 18 bitmaps to load. On another layer there is a "skip

> >preLoader" button with a GoTo action. The GoTo sends the playback head to

> >frame 19 (frame 19 is where the course begins). 

> >This is how the "skip" button action appears in the Object Inspector -

> >On (Release)

> >   Go to and Stop (19)

> >End On

> 

> >The only other action(frame, button, or otherwise) in the entire movie is

> >the Stop on the last frame.

> >There is nothing on frame 19 except for a big ugly red rectangle just for

> >debugging purposes. For some reason, the "Skip preLoader" button is not

> >performing the action. See 4 yourself -

> >swf file -http://www.trenchard.net/debug.swf

> >fla file -http://www.trenchard.net/debug.fla

> 

> When I checked the .swf online over a T1 it jumped right to the red

> rectangle. When I checked the movie in Flash with streaming turned on, I

> saw

> what you described. The problem is that you are trying to go to a frame

> that

> has not loaded yet. 

> 

> What you can do is make a Movie Clip (I am assuming that your course will

> consist of one or more MC's) and put your red rectangle in that. Make sure

> that the first frame of your MC is blank and there is a stop action in the

> second frame. Place the rectangle in the third keyframe and label it

> "rectangle" and give it a stop action. Now take that movie clip and drag

> it

> to the main stage, in the first frame of the bottom layer. Give it an

> Instance Name of "Rectangle." Now, the MC will load even before the

> bitmaps,

> and you give the "skip" button the following action:

> 

> On (release)

> 	begin tell target ("/rectangle")

> 		Go to and play ('/rectangle")

> 	End Tell target

> End On

> 

> Before all of that you will need to give the button an action to go to a

> frame that is blank (park it) or else the MC containing the rectangle will

> load right on top of the intro screen.

> 

> Hope that made sense. If not you can email me off list and I will send you

> back your .fla so you can see what I am talking (rambling) about.

> 

> -Eric-

> 

> 

> 

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