Re: FLASH: do i need a preloader for this?

[Cheri Harder]

You should use the Bandwidth Profiler to help determine how long your

preloader should be....but most generally you don't have to make them wait

for the entire movie to load before they can start viewing.  Depends a great

deal on the way you have the navigation, I guess.  If they could go

"anywhere" from the start and they might pick something that is clear at the

end, then I guess you would have to preload the entire thing.


I usually "disable" those items that are at the end of the movie until they

are actually available.  For instance, I have a "gallery of pictures" on a

singles site I did.  I put the movie clip that is the gallery clear at the

end of the main movie (because it is the biggest thing, I didn't want

anything else waiting for it to load).  Then, if you pick the button to see

the gallery and it hasn't loaded yet, you get a "please look around at other

parts of the site while the gallery loads" instead of just a "dead button"


Hope this helps point you in the right direction.  Not much action on the

list this late at night.


Oh, and I'm talking about movie clips and your question is about loading

external swf's.  Hmm.  I think they don't load until you tell them to, but

you can always "park them" and go ahead and load them if you want to have

them available immediately upon user's click.  (meaning they have a blank

first frame with a stop action, and something will later trigger them to

play.)  I wouldn't try to load them all at once, but you could start them

loading one at a time on the final frames of the movie.  Then if the user

clicks on one that hasn't loaded, he will have to wait, but if he doesn't

click until they're loaded, he'll get it immediately.


Marc Hoffman always has good advice on this subject.  Maybe you'll get

better results tomorrow.  I think you're stuck with me tonight!  he he he.


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 12:14 AM

Subject: FLASH: do i need a preloader for this?



> hello everybody

>

> could anyone please suggest me something about this

> i've created a website in flash for a client which is almost over. its a

> non-linear presentation with nine different swf files linked eachother.

the

> overall file size of the presentation is 370 kb. so i want to know while

in

> the browser without giving the preloader, does it run through streaming

or

> should i give the preloader untill the whole files are loaded.

>

> thanx in advance

> manjunath




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