Re: FLASH: preloader all in one scene?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 09:30 PM 11/25/99 , you wrote:


>Is it true that for a preloader it can't read across different scenes.  I

>have a long movie that I want to break up into scenes, but I just want to

>make sure it can be done.  Anyone have any thoughts?

>

>Thanks in advance,

>Pat


As others have pointed out, you can read across scenes. Best method is to 

assign unique frame labels to check loading status, since the labels will 

stay with the frame whereas the frame numbers change as you make edits.


You should be warned, however, that using scenes will make other work a lot 

more difficult. For example, movie clips don't retain their instances 

across scene boundaries, so they must be re-inserted and therefore will 

reset to frame one. You will have problems with sound toggle controls as 

well as other Flash devices. Try to avoid scenes. Use lots of layers to 

organize your information (layers cost nothing in file size) and use labels 

(small file size cost) or comments (no file size cost) to demarcate 

sections of your movie.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

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