RE: FLASH: Flash loading problems (begging on my knees now)

[Ben Deroo]

Hi Al,

This may be a simplistic approach to your quandry, but it might be worth

considering. What if you made it so that the Pictures only become clickable

(in other words  buttons) After a frame you have determined (lets say 50 )

is effectively loaded. In other words, try to make it look like this : you

start the movie , the pictures load nicely, but at this point they are not

yet active buttons . In any frame after the initial loading of the Pictures,

you put an If Frame Is Loaded action, if frame 50 is loaded then goto and

play frame 50 . It is then only in frame 50 that the pictures would be

active buttons , and therefore clickable .


>From frame 1 to frame 49 the pictures are graphic symbols . In frame 50 you

"modify Instance /properties and assign them as buttons "


I think this should work , if not ....  Let me know, it is just a relative

newbie's opinion.


HTH

Ben



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From: ownershocker [dot] com [ownershocker [dot] com]On">mailto:ownershocker [dot] com]On Behalf Of Al

> Rosetti

> Sent: donderdag 28 januari 1999 20:20

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To: flashershocker [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash loading problems (begging on my knees now)

>

>

> My flash movie/test is running funny while it's still loading and I could

> use any advice or direction that you experts might offer me.  To put it

> bluntly... I'm dying over here, hehe.   I'd just blow on past this problem

> for now but I'm at a point that I really need to get this settled before I

> go on.

>

> Here is the situation....

>

> Click to the URL and the movie starts

> 2 picture buttons come up

> the movie continues to load

> If at THIS point you click the left button it doesn't go to the right spot

> in the movie.  In fact... instead of heading to frame 36 where

> it's supposed

> to go it proceeds to the next frame (I think 15) and begins running.

>

> My theory...  While Flash preloads the movie it's easily

> confused.  When the

> link says head on over to frame 36 it doesn't know how to get to frame 36

> yet because it hasn't loaded that far yet.  Soooooo what it does

> is load the

> farthest frame it's gotten to in the preloading process. (in this

> case like

> 15 or 16 or so)

>

> If this is true, is there any way around this rather DEVESTATING problem?

> Do I need to cut this baby up into scenes?  I've read John Croteau bag on

> those many times BUT... if it's the only way, then...  Anyway, maybe it's

> just something I can fix in Aftershock... or a setting in Flash.  I don't

> know and any advice or marching orders would be GREATLY appreciated.   The

> URL is where this mess is located is www.websitepartners.com/rapfoto

>

> about to eat 2 pizza hot pockets,

>

> Al Rosetti

> www.websitepartners.com

>

> p.s.

> Thanks for the help on the cut and paste Byron.  If this baby needs to be

> hacked into several different scenes I'm ready, hehe.

>

>

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