Re: [flasher] Trying to cache 10 swf's for seamless daisy chain play

[Millie Maruani]

I'll try to give you an idea in some words, in a simple way.


create an empty movie called base.swf on level0

let's call your swf A1, A2 , A3....

you test their  preloading . at the begining of each , you use a loop 

testing, if all images are charged, you stop the swf on an empty frame and 

give to a variable in level 0 called a1 for movie A1, the value 1.  you 

label   "start"  the image where your movie  begins.

on level0 you load all the movie A1 on level1, A2 on level2...

if a1=1 you can tell target (or with) level1 to play "start",A1.swf will 

play . at the end of A1, you test, if _level0.a2=1 you play A2.swf on level 

2 and so on. don't forget, when level2 is begining to play, to unload level1.


it was more easy to explain it that way, but you can just load the first 

movie without any a1 test, stop and target. just test and target for the 

others


Millie





At 18:39 20/02/01 -0700, you wrote:

>Hi everyone...

>I have 10 .swf's... All linked together by the loadMovieNum .

>The first one in my project is called intro.swf

>I have them at http://www.maniaman.com/swf/Rose/rose.htm if you want to see

>what I am talking about.(that's my personal site..I'm using to test at.)

>

>My boss does not want the movies any bigger than 100k he doesn't want any

>big 300k to 600k movies with preloaders.  So I am trying to make a series of

>small 20k-60k average swf's daisy chained and calling each other in order...

>But I have these unsightly lags inbetween my swf's loading.

>I've been trying some experiments with container swfs that might begin to

>cache all my small movies  then start playing the series as the rest finish

>downloading in the background. Is this possible?? Am I thinking correctly.??

>

>  I work for a small company and I do all the art and animation but I'm

>really not a programmer. I've been studying some action scripting but I'm

>having a hell of a time.

>If anyone of you experts has some advice for me I would be all ears.

>Thanks

>Dave Lebow

>http://www.maniaman.com

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