Re: FLASH: preloading 82 10k movies

[John Dowdell]

At 12:49 PM 4/27/0, Anthony Faust wrote:

>I want to find a way to preload these movies while the user is idle or when

>the user is navigating the map. But when the user picks a hall, I want the

>preloading to stop and to load the movie of the hall the user selected.


The Shockwave Player makes relatively easy work of these advanced

media-handling schemes. There may be ways to put together a specific

approach for other tools, but what you describe is one of the central

abilities of Director and Shockwave.



Hmm... Jason raised a good point, are you actually seeking to preload

because it takes a long time to start? If so, then your design may preclude

the principles described here:

"How can I start SWFs quickly?"

http://www.macromedia.com/go/14300


But a 10K movie shouldn't take long to start up....


jd







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