Re: FLASH: Question about Load Movie and Tell Target

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 11:31 PM 5/27/99 -0300, you wrote:

>Good Evening,

>Would someone please enlighten me as to when it is better to use Tell Target

>and when to use Load Movie?


I would add to Dorian's response that there's the issue of sharing library

elements. A loaded movie must have its own library, and therefore may be

duplicating (downloading a second time) elements already in the first

movie. But, as Dorian says, the primary consideration will be whether the

user can request large chunks of content in random order, in which case

LoadMovie saves having to download it all at once.


With either method, a movie clip or a movie that is downloaded can start in

a blank, stopped frame. It will continue to load but will not display until

TellTarget tells it to Play. So really the choice is between Load Movie and

using Movie Clips (not TellTarget, which may be used in either case), and

preloading is possible with either method.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

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