RE: FLASH: Preloader/scene problems

[Dan Sobczak]

Thanks for the link to the if frame tutorial, Marc!


I will give that a shot as well... It looks like that might be just what I

need to get around this.


BTW - I checked out the rest of dartfrogmedia.com... Very nicely designed

site, I must say!


Thanks again,

Dan Sobczak



> -----Original Message-----

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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Marc

> Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media

> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 6:44 PM

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Preloader/scene problems

>

>

> At 11:05 PM 3/2/00 , you wrote:

>

> >Hi, Dan.  When a movie is published to swf, the 'scenes' are all

> flattened

> >out into one, soooo...any action referencing a frame by number instead of

> >label will fail if you add scenes prior to your existing scene because if

> >the new "scene 1" is 20 frames long, for example, your "scene 2"

> "frame 1"

> >is going to be frame #21 when published.

> >

> >I am trying to figure out the easiest way for you to correct the

> >situation...but both of my solutions would involve going into

> every action

> >that references a frame and changing it...

>

> One thing you could do is to make your "preloader" a new base movie that

> runs while the original movie -- now loaded into a higher level -- gets

> loaded. When the higher level movie is ready, it signals the base

> movie to

> park itself in a blank frame. See http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/if_frame.

>

> Marc Hoffman

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