Re: FLASH: preloader question/TIA

[Cheri Harder]

Hi, Marie


The part of your description I am questioning is your statement about the

preload movie that says "and went to frame 8" - does this layer end at frame

8?  That is, there aren't any blank frames on out to frame 22?  This could

be the problem.  Conceptually, anyway, I am picturing the preload movie not

existing after frame 8 so it can't keep playing until frame 22 is loaded?


Not sure, though, that I am following your description.  If you send me the

fla I'd be glad to take a look...


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From: "Marie" <

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Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 11:49 AM

Subject: FLASH: preloader question/TIA



> I have followed colinmoock's tutorial on building a preloader, but

> still have a couple of unanswered questions. My setup is the

> following:

>

> The movie is only 22 frames long, but has 19 layers in all, including

> 3 preloader layers, "Labels", "Actions" and "Content".

> In the Labels layer, I left frame 1 static, labeled frame 2 as

> "preload-loop" , frame 16 as "begin-movie" and frame 22 as

> "minimum-loadpoint".

>

> On frame 1 of Actions, I've put in the action:

> IfFrameIsLoaded [,minimum-loadpoint], GotoandPlay [,begin-movie]

> On frame 2 of Actions I put:

> GotoandPlay [,preload-loop]

> On frame 22, I put:

> Stop

>

> On frame 1 of Content, I left frame 1 static, started the preload

> movie on 2, and went to frame 8.

>

> The problem that I have is that the movie, published and on the

> server, appears to load the preloader for just 1-2 seconds, then jump

> along to the main movie before it has completed loading. It looks

> like it stalls at about frame 16.

>

> You can view it at: http://www.johnragusa.com/staffnav.html



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