Re: FLASH: Question about Load Movie and Tell Target

[Dorian Nisinson]

	Oops. Thanks Marc, I must have been really jet lagged when I answered

last night. Of course I meant Movie Clips, not Tell Target. Tell Target

is the communication action for either movie clips or loaded movies.

	Thanks again.


Dorian


"Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media" wrote:

> 

> 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

> 

>

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> 

>

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