wish rescinded

[Colin Moock]

I think I'd like to withdraw my cleaner Wait For Frame wishes in favour

of fully automated wait for frame.


In fully automated WFF, if the movie has a button or frame that with an

action sending it to an unloaded frame, then Flash itself automatically

waits until the appropriate frame is loaded.


I can't tell you how incredibly valuable this would be in larger

movies.  On the Levi's site (www.levi.com/canada/) which is about 410K,

I probably spent about 3-4 days implementing various twisted WFF

routines throughout the scenes. These routines now partially tie my

hands in changing the movie.


In an automated implementation of WFF, you should be able to create a

special scene which is used as your loading animation.  The special

scene always loads first, and is displayed any time the movie is

waiting for a portion to download before it continues. (For that

matter, you should be able to create multiple special scenes, and be

able to specify which one is displayed depending on the status of the

timeline...).


Think about it. In HTML, we don't have to put special commands in to

tell the browser not to try to display the content unless it is fully

loaded. Make the software do the work.


Cheers,

Colin

colin_moockiceinc [dot] com

colinmoock.iceinc.com/

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