RE: FLASH: GoTo Action failure (VERY creepy)

[Marcel Trenchard]

Mary, strange that you ask Eric that because that was my first plan. Those

are exactly the same actions that I tried and you know what?...the movie was

going to the frame and the bitmap was STILL not loaded. Could it be that

Flash does not include the bitmaps on a frame as part of the overall loading

of that frame? At first I thought it might be a bug in the Bandwidth

Profiler but I put it online, pulled out a funky old puter with a 14.4 modem

and I was seeing it just as the Test Movie was simulating it. Over and over,

Flash would calculate the frame as being loaded, jumping to it and still

displaying the frame with everything but the bitmap. I would wait a few

seconds and the bitmap would finally come in. I just hate using bitmaps in

flash, but in this case, I have no choice.


L8er,

marcel


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

>

From: brzys [SMTP:brzysmediaone [dot] net]

> Sent:	Friday, June 25, 1999 6:14 PM

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com

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

> 

> Hi Eric,

> 

> Just out of curiousity, why didn't you use:

> 

> If Frame is Loaded (19)

> Go to and Stop (19)

> End Frame Loaded

> 

> Mary Brzys

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

>

From: Eric Smollin <esmollinPLANSOFT [dot] com>

>

To: <flashershocker [dot] com>

> Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 12:39 PM

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

> 

> 

> > Hi again Marcel.

> >

> > >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.

> >

> > I'm glad that I could help. You might want to think about creating two

> > courses (movies), one with images and one without. If the user doesn't

> click

> > on the "skip" button, put a "Continue" button at the end of the bitmap

> > loading sequence and give it an action to Go To the course with images.

> For

> > the course without images you can give the "Skip" button an action to

> bypass

> > the loading of the bitmaps and go right to the no-image course using

> Tell

> > Target (it would have to be loaded already though).

> >

> > Good luck with the project.

> >

> > Eric Smollin, Multimedia Instructional Designer

> > PlanSoft Corporation

>

> esmollinplansoft [dot] com

> > www.plansoft.com

> >

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