Re: FLASH: Preloading secondary movie

[Muzak]

Not really a preloader, but it uses getBytesLoaded() and getBytesTotal(). It's something i'm still working on - a 'connection speed

tester'.

http://www.flashingdutchman.com/libraries/actionscripts/conn_speed.html

http://www.flashingdutchman.com/libraries/actionscripts/conn_speed.zip

The things I'm uncertain about is, how accurate it is, and if i'm using the right calculations.

Results looked good when testing with 'webspeedoptimizer', a tool that mimics different modem type connections on your harddrive. I

can actually highly recommend this program to anyone who's on a fast connection and would like to know what your Flash movie/site

looks like on a 56k modem (or slower).

http://xat.com/wo/index.html


If you need anything else on preloading, could you be more specific?

It's just that I used a big MC/movie for the preload sample, well just to see how it works, it should work just the same if you use

it with a complete site.

That's also why I used a 1 mb sound file, so there would actually be something to preload, even on fast connections.


Muzak


----- Original Message -----

From: "Danny Ferry" <

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To: <

flasherchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:31 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Preloading secondary movie



> Hey Muzak do you happen to have another example of the percent loader or an

> entire move insted of just a mc?

>

>

>

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

>

From: "Muzak" <muzakpandora [dot] be>

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 7:28 PM

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Preloading secondary movie

>

>

> > In this sample I load a (1MB) sound SWF into a movieclip. You can then use

> getBytesTotal en getBytesLoaded with the movieclip to

> > check if the SWF is loaded.

> >

> > http://flashingdutchman.com/libraries/actionscripts/percent_loaded.html

> > http://flashingdutchman.com/libraries/actionscripts/percent_loaded.zip

> >

> > HTH,

> > Muzak




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