Re: FLASH: caching .swf's?

[John Croteau]

Hi Daniel,


To keep a Movie Clip (MC) current (so it continues to exist), place in

in a Layer that has empty frames from where it starts until the end of

the Movie or the last frame where you want it available. Everything in a

frame needs to load before the movie will go to the next frame so if you

do the above and give it an Instance Name you can Tell Target a Movie

Clip from any place along the timeline where it exists. A Movie Clip can

be loaded in a Park position if it is undecided when it will first be

used.

A Park position is a frame in a MC (or Movie loaded with Load Movie)

that is either blank or at least has no buttons used to Park the Movie

Clip between its active uses. usually I label this frame with Park and

include a Stop Action.


If you break the existance of the MC then a new copy of that MC will

start over and not retain any information stored in it.


By placing a Keyframe (without a copy of the MC) following a Movie Clip

then you are making that MC Instance end. A new Scene always starts new

Instances of Symbols therefore Movie Clip Instances never exist across

Scenes even if they are in the last frame of one Scene and start again

in the first frame of the next Scene. This is the number 1 reason not to

use Scenes in Flash 3 (there are others).


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