Re: "Loading..."

[John Croteau]

Hi Joshua,

  I agree there are many times that wait-for-frames are needed (I say

this all the time), all the reasons that Joshua mentioned are good

reasons to install wait-for-frames and there are more. In many cases,

you might want to use many wait-for-frames in a single movie to make

sure everything is prepared for various actions (more but smaller

waits).. What I said and re-emphasize there is no need to paint a Red

Flag that says 'YOU ARE WAITING', they may have to wait but it isn't

neccessary to tell them that are. I have many uses of wait-for-frame and

noone who isn't very Flash savvy (and connected by a paticularly slow

connection) would know that they encountered a wait-for-frame delay or

that they were in a holding patern unless they hit a complete web stall.

My older movies don't always make best use of wait-for-frames especially

since noone understood the posibilities or even how to use the

wait-for-frame properly at first including me.

As far as my telling Michael to put the wait-for-frame at the beginning,

that was in response to his '"loading..." indicator to appear BEFORE my

flash'. You must place a wait-for-frame event in chronological order

before the part of the movie for which you are creating the delay.


Where is the first wait-for-frame event at Flash Central??

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