Re: FLASH: preloader question

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 10:49 AM 10/29/1999 , you wrote:

>I have a question about a preloading movie -

>If my interactive web page is primarily made of different movie clips

>and tell targets, so much so that the actual stage only has 2 frames on

>it, is there a way for a preloader movie to go until the entire site is

>loaded? I mean, the way I had done it for animations before was the

>regular If frame is Loaded thing. But with this, I only can set it for

>If frame is Loaded (frame 2) and that doesn't really do me any good.

>Do you know what I mean?

>If anyone has an answer to my question, please tell me.

>thanks alot!

>:]

>sarah


Sarah,


You'll need to insert some blank frames at the start of the movie. Also, if 

the movie clips take a long time to load, you might want to consider 

converting one of them to the main timeline, or at least a copy of it, so 

the real content starts playing sooner. Of course, I don't know what the 

content is, so this may or may not be practical.


  The primary disadvantage of movie clips is exactly what you're seeing now 

-- they need to load entirely before playing.




Marc Hoffman

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

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