Re: FLASH: Optimizing loading of large movies

[Chris Wiggins]

>There is no reason for the buttons not to be functional before the

>bitmap portion is loaded. Just make sure the bitmaps are on later frames

>than the buttons.


Hmm. The bitmaps definitely are on later frames. My guess is that it has

something to do with the fact that the second level of navigation (what

you get when you click a primary button) is actualy a loaded movie 

(generator

template, actually) which contains only the new elements. Is there some 

reason

to think that a movie can't succesfully load into a new level if the main

timeline movie hasn't fully loaded?



>

>Also 30K seems high for the content. I'm guessing the bitmap tile

>backgound is not tiled in Flash and this may be the cause.


My goof. Actually that 30k figure was for a version which had a 

three-bitmap

slideshow.  The pre-bitmap homepage was 18k I believe. The background is 

tiled in flash, actually. I'm only loading a two-square

bitmap which tiles. 



>The use of 4 fonts does contribute to the size also. It's nice when you

>don't have to worry about download size too much.


The plurality of fonts is mainly a result of generator. There are

two fonts in the original design (Waldbaum & Avenir) but apparently 

certain fonts

are incompatibile with Generator. So we introduced some that worked and 

ate the

extra download size since we didn't want to go to all-generator friendly 

fonts.  Just

used the generator-frindly fonts for the bits that were generated.


Thanks for taking the time to look.




Chris Wiggins, Art Director


Braincraft Learning Technologies

chrisbraincraft [dot] com

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