Re: FLASH: help me. please. i am dying from dumb.

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 05:59 PM 6/5/2000 , you wrote:


>Load Variables ("http://www.site.com/links/flash.cgi?ID=2", 0)

>

>Is there any reason the above would not work when movie is run off the

>server?

>The movie resides at http://www.site.com/site/movie.swf .  Would there be

>any reason variables would not load in due to the location of a movie?  (The

>swf loads variables fine when it is run locally on my hard drive.)

>

>Also- is there any reason loading an external movie would sent the browser

>into a loop without any frames specifying to loop through the load movie

>action(trying to load the movie over and over and never quite getting

>there.)



Not sure about the first two. As to the last, is the action to load the 

movie somehow being repeated, for instance if the movie is looping? Make 

sure there's a Stop action at the end of the movie that generates the 

LoadMovie action. Might not be a problem locally because it loads fast 

enough, whereas on the web it doesn't have time to finish loading. 

Partially loaded movies must reload from the start -- the cache won't store 

just part of a movie that hasn't finished loading. Just a thought.




Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio



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