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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Preload question
From:	Karin Christensen
Date:	Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:36:01 +0100

Remove the preloader. It's taking longer to load than your movie.
The movie clip in the first frame will load completely before it
starts to play.
You can see how long it takes for the movie to start in test movie,
then select view/ show streaming. You can pick a modem speed to see
how it streams.

Karin
(I'm on my anti-preloader kick today)

> I made a 20 frame preload screen with a bar that
> starts out small and eventauly grows to the right.
> (pretty sophisicated hey)
>
> anyways I made it a movie clip and in the first frame
> of my movie there is a stop the only thing in that
> frame is the preload movie clip.
>
> the last frame in my movie clip advances the movie to
> the second frame of the main timeline.
>
> all sounds like it should work but i think it loading
> the whole preloader before showing it. The preload is
> 50k my whole movie is 60k.
>
> When i load it on the internet it takes about 10
> seconds then the preload screen races through and only
> takes about 1 sec.
>
> Do movie clips have to load completely before they
> show? Should my preloader be a scene?

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