RE: FLASH: Best site structure - frames? tables? 1 movie? 10 movies?

[Phred White]

Thanks Marc.


	>Repeat after me: Don't use scenes.


Don't use scenes.   ...I feel better already!

	>>

	>>2) Or, is it best to have totally descrete nav swf that calls

different 

	>>swf-containing html pages into a frame?


	>This would be needlessly slow. Having a number of movie clips

available or

	>.swf's in higher levels will achieve the same thing without the

user

	>waiting for the connection to the server to refresh and new content

to

	>download.


What do you mean by "higher levels"?


> >

> >3) Or, is it best to have separate nav swf in table cell, and content 

> >swf(s) in another cell and switch content using inter-movie 

> >communication (possible, right?)?

> 

	>...


	>General rule for movie clips versus movies on levels:  if there is

a huge

	>amount of content and you cannot predict the order in which the

user will

	>request it, 


Definitely the case. So I don't understand how I could do this with

a single swf.


	>movies on levels will help manage the download stream.  


Again vit' da "levels"!?  :  )  So this sounds like "The Way"


	>But you

	>will need to plan carefully since they cannot share the same symbol

	>library, so think about assigning content to movies in a way that

symbols

	>won't have to be duplicated. 


Hmmmm.


	>If all content must be available at the

	>outset, you may as well use movie clips.



Well it does, kind of. the client wants the site to be "ultra crisp" (mmm, 

good with soy milk!), but I figure that I can amuse them while I stream, but


they need to have ready access. I hope to anticipate they're access order

and

preload accordingly. If they psych me out it's OK if they end up getting a

load 

delay, as long as it's short. 


I'm familiar with movie clips, and understand that they must load 

entirely before they play. Can I preload explicitly, i.e, "preload

thingy-clip"?

Can separate swf's share content (libraries?, external content?)


	It's kind of fun being clueless again!


Phred


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