FLASH: Load Movie loading precendence

[Neil Christensen]

I am trying to figure out what the loading precedence is when using Load

Movie. Is there a queue i.e. main movie, load movie 1, 2, 3 ? I am

trying to preload a movie with 5 scenes and possibly 20 to 30 streamed

audio files. I want to preload one of the scenes and then buffer 60

frames each of 13 audio .swfs so that they play immediately upon

rollover and stream in as needed. I've been testing with 2 audio files

and I'm finding that the entire movie loads (94k) before the sounds and

then the sounds load entirely as well before exiting my preload loop. I

have an If Frame loaded for the scene I want to buffer and it is the

second scene after my Preload scene. I also have an If Frame loaded

inside the audio .swf's that set a flag in the Preload level when they

have loaded 60 frames and then trigger the loading of the next audio

.swf. When I test this with the Download Profiler the scene loads

properly (50k), but it appears that the profiler cannot track the

loading of external .swf's because they are loaded instantly. In theory,

I thought I would be able to selectively buffer scenes and external

movies for low end delivery. I know that loading external movies streams

them in, but I wanted to have a buffer so I can avoid nasty delays. I

hope this makes sense to someone.


-- 

Neil Christensen

Critical Mass


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