Re: FLASH: Preloader Help

[Gregg Caines]

One trick I use is to put the things that you want to preload _in_ the

preloader.  You don't need to do a loop to keep checking for a

particular frame in this kind of preloader... you just have to rely on

Flash's method of streaming.  If you look at those MCs, and take their

main symbols and drop them in a frame in your preloader (sounds with

no volume, and graphics with 0% alpha) then Flash will automatically

wait for these things to be downloaded before moving on to the next

frame.


    It may be possible to put the movie clips in there, instead of

just their sub-symbols, but if you have audio it would probably be

difficult to turn down the volume... plus, I don't know how flash

streams MCs in an SWF...it probably just matches frame for frame, so

it wouldn't really make the movie 'wait' until it was all downloaded.


  Anyway...you can have a frame of your preloader loaded up with all

these 'invisible' symbols, and they will all preload before the next frame

is shown.


Hopefully that is what you are looking for, even if it's a little unclear ;)


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Gregg J. Caines

Neometrix Systems Inc.

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

<snip>

> 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!

</snip>



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