Re: FLASH: 50kb preloaders

[Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media)]

At 03:28 PM 8/9/99 -0700, you wrote:

>Does anyone know where I can find the tutorials for breaking up the web site

>into 50kb?


How did this thread get started, I wonder. There is no inherent value in

breaking Flash into 50kb movies, and some good reasons not to. If it is

designed well, Flash can be hundreds or thousands of kb in size and will

stream just fine. The time to break it up is if there are large blocks of

content that the user can request in unpredictable order. In that case, you

simply copy frames to a new movie, or start building a new movie from

scratch. Then use Load Movie to pile them one atop another. They will all

follow the frame rate and background color of the initial movie (level 0).


Note, although you can copy library elements from one .fla to another, the

.swf's will not be able to share a library, and so breaking up your movie

will probably result in a larger total size for all Flash combined.


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