Re: FLASH: caching .swf's?

[Daniel Votino]

Hi John,


My ignorance is shining through in brilliant colors on this flash list.  lol

I have a question regarding the below then.


Am I correct to assume from your reply that I can place a movie CLIP on a

keyframe instead of loading it as a new layer, have it be at Stop Action on

its first frame like I would the Loaded Movie and then Tell Target that

movie clip to somewhere else on its own time line from later on in the

Parent movie and not upset the flow and forward motion of the parent movie?

In otherwords, can I call say, a button or trigger a sound lodged inside

that movie clip (that never played when it was first loaded way back) now

from somewhere else in the movie?  Not sure if Ive stated that clear or

not!?


~Daniel


John wrote:


You should be using Movie Clips in the same movie not Load Movie if you

need these all of these Movies. Load Movies are completely independent

and load when they load. Just like gifs if you load 6 swf files it will

vary on which ones will load first. If you need all 6 then make them one

swf file.


Use Load Movie for random access and load a new movie with when it is

needed or just before. There are exceptions to this rule but handling

becomes very complicated since you should check each movie to see if it

has loaded (or loaded to your target point) then Tell Target that

information to a central movie to control the basic operation. It is

best to Load one movie at a time (possibly a second one when you are

near the end of the first).



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