preload across scenes

[Jon Rowe]

Hi


I have a movie (flash 5) with 3 scenes. Scene 1 is a fairly standard 

preloader, it uses targetMC.loadMovie("url") to preload a number of .swf's

for later use. I check that they are fully downloaded using

getBytesLoaded() before moving on. Scene 2 is a menu screen/homepage with

buttons which take you to scene 3 on a mouseUp. This is where I try to

reload the movies preloaded in scene 1.


Over a speedy connection (DSL) this works fine but over a slower connection

(56k) the movie reports via some variables that I have set up, that the

loaded movieclip is 0 frames long, o bytes big etc. i.e. it refuses to

execute the loadMovie command.


I am reluctant to pull the whole movie apart and make it into one long scene

so if anyone knows why this might be happening or a workaround I would be

externally gratefull 8-P


jon rowe


p.s. this behaviour is occuring while testing on win98, IE5 (Mac, IE5 seems

to be OK)