Re: FLASH: Optimizing loading of large movies

[Dorian Nisinson]

My first thought is to make the slide show a separate movie and have

your navigation movie load it after the buttons are active. The only

problem with this is the buttons would be active and a visitor could

click away from the slideshow which might not please the client.


Dorian


Chris Wiggins wrote:

> 

> I'm working on an intranet which uses flash & generator quite a bit.

> 

> My question:

> 

> The home page recently became rather large (the swt is approx 180k) when

> the client

> decided to add a slideshow of 8-10 bitmaps. The home page is very simple,

> really.

> If it didn't have the slideshow and if it wasn't a generator template it

> would be

> around 30k. The slideshow is designed to stream (which it does, nicely,

> even over

> a 28.8) and the navigation loads very quickly which is just what I want.

> 

> The problem is that although the navigation loads very quickly even on a

> 28.8 connection, it isn't actually "hot" or active until the movie

> finishes loading.

> 

> Now, this problem isn't terribly serious to me on this project because

> it's an intranet which almost nobody will be using with anything other

> than a T1. However I'd like to know if there is anything I can do to

> force the navigation to be functional as soon as it's loaded & visible on

> screen.

> 

> The site can be viewed (for a short time) at: http://209.141.236.66/

> 

> Keep in mind that it is designed to be used exclusively on IE4 on PCs

> with 800x600 res & 16 bit color (I love intranets! Where else can you

> find out what EVERY user will be using?)

> 

> Any ideas about my puzzle are welcome, as are any general comments about

> the look or flash/shockwave functionality of the site.

> 

> Chris Wiggins, Art Director

> 

> Braincraft Learning Technologies

>

chrisbraincraft [dot] com

> 

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