Re: FLASH: The best way to load another swf

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 12:09 PM 5/20/2000 , you wrote:


>a)  Put into "SCENES".

>b)  Load movie action.

>c)  Put everything in one big movie and use "Go to" action.

>d)  Refresh Meta Tag on "HTML"

>e)  FS Command/ Javascript


Depends on how the movie is constructed. If the user will see everything 

from beginning to end, use one long movie; it will load more efficiently. 

If you have large blocks of content that can be called by the user in 

unpredictable order, load each block of content as a new movie. Most of us 

avoid scenes because they reset movie clips and sounds, but good action 

scripters get around this by using Duplicate Movie Clip, which is immune to 

scene boundaries (hi there, Branden!). Learn to use the Size Report to help 

you plan how your content will stream. As soon as you leave the Flash 

environment, you usually lose the benefits of streaming, so try to keep as 

much in Flash as possible, and try to be loading content as early as 

possible so it's ready when needed. This takes lots of planning and practice.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio



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