Re: FLASH: Preloading

[John Croteau]

Hi Lee,


> I am having major problems with a large flash file.  I have 19 buttons

> that call 18 sections within the flash movie, all of them call a frame

> that has a loading moving clip in them that loops until the section is

> loaded, the problem is that the buttons won't actually navigate to the

> sections with the movie clip in...they will only navigate to where

> ever it has cached...ie..if i click on button 7 it goes to section 2

> then...I wait a while for more of it to download and press 7 again and

> it goes to section 5.

You can not go to a frame that is not loaded yet. 

If you use a Go To with a frame number that is not loaded yet then Flash

will send you to the last frame loaded. If you use a Label instead then

if the frame that the Label refers to is not loaded then nothing will

happen.


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