RE: FLASH: Preloader Help

[Jason Bouwmeester]

Or alternatly you could just insert a few blank frames and put a "fake" b/g

(say your movie is black, make a black square) and drag your movie clips

into the frame behind the black square that you want loaded before the

stream starts. That way you don't have to mess with your existing movie,

once they are loaded in, they won't have to be reloaded once the movie gets

to the main frame but the rest will. 


Hope that makes sense as well...

jb


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From: John Cocktosten [

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Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 2:35 PM

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Subject: FLASH: Preloader Help



I have run into a bit of a problem regarding a preloader.  I have a 200k 

Flash presentation that consists of 10 movie clips.  What I would like to do


is preload the first 100k, and let the second 100k stream.


In the past, my preloaders have consisted of a two frame loop, the first 

frame checks to see if the _totalframes are loaded, and the second frame 

loops back to the first.  If I don't want to preload the entire movie, I 

replace _totalframes with a specific number, usually the mid point of my 

movie.


Since I am entirely using movie clips, the main timeline consists of 13 

layers but each contains only one frame. Here-in lies my problem. How can I 

preload half of my presentation and let the rest stream considering the 

architecture of my movie; there's only one frame on the main timeline!


Thanks in advance to anyone who can suggest a possible solution.


JC


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