Re: FLASH: preloading swf files prior to LOAD MOVIE command

[Alan Prather]

Yes,

It will cache them when loaded in HTML, but I am unsure about Nested

movies..

I'd imagine if you loaded topic2.swf on the main page while the user was

reading the main document, then using a load_movie to load that file in the

same flash object instance wouldn't use the browsers cache for sure.

Remember to make movies 'invisible in an html doc, you have to make them 2

by 2 pixels.

You might want to try it.

-Alan


----- Original Message -----

From: Len Harrison <

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To: <

flashershocker [dot] com

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Sent: Friday, November 13, 1998 10:05 AM

Subject: RE: FLASH: preloading swf files prior to LOAD MOVIE command



>I asked this question a couple of weeks ago but didn't get an answer. Maybe

>I didn't make myself understood, maybe no one knows, or perhaps it got lost

>in my other chatter. In any case, this looked like an opportunity to

>resurface it again.

>

>Suppose I have multiple html/flash files. The first one is pretty small but

>has a lot of text and will take the user a while to work through. At some

>point they will go to one of the others which are significantly larger. The

>organization is like this:

>intro.swf __ topic1.swf

>         |__ topic2.swf

>         |__ topic3.swf

>...

>

>User goes to each topic through intro as a hub. Each is a separate html+swf

>document.

>

>Now, if I preload the topicN.swf's within intro.swf while the user is

>reading stuff, will they be written to the cache and will Flash (or the

>browser) be smart enough to look for them there and not go to the server?

>

>If so, does this work with nested movies? I.E.: topics 1,2, and 3 all use

>"toolbox" which could be packaged as a movie clip inside each or loaded as

>an .swf from each. If cached, the .swf load would work better. If not, the

>movie clip would. Anyone know about this?

>

>Finally, this may also have some significance. I don't seem to find any

>.swfs in my IE cache. Does the activeX control just load these things

>directly without caching them?

>

>len harrison

>instructional designer

>

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

>

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

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

>> Hoffman

>> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 7:06 PM

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> To: flashershocker [dot] com

>> Subject: Re: FLASH: preloading swf files prior to LOAD MOVIE command

>>

>>

>> At 06:11 PM 11/12/98 -0800, you wrote:

>> >does anybody know of a way to preload swf movies?

>

>[much deletia]

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