Re: FLASH: downloading ...

[Zohar Laor]

> 

> 4JD1N B451C wrote:


> > 

> > how does flash download/stream. does it download

> the entire .swf file


That is a very good question.

Flash downloads the .swf file in order, form frame 1

to frame n.


If you click on a button calling frame 1000 and the

.swf only downloaded 800 frames, nothing will happen.

That is very dangerous.

What you need to do is to write a small action script

to check weather or not all the frames were

downloaded.


Here is an example:


1) on your first frame of your preloader label it -

startLoop


2) creat a frame and put in the following script:


Set Variable: "loadedFrames" = GetProperty ( "/",

_framesloaded)

Set Variable: "totalFrames" = GetProperty (" /",

_totalframes )

If (loadedFrames < totalFrames)

      Go to and Play ("startLoop")

Else

      Go to and Play ("allLoaded")

End If


3) on the next frame creat a label called - allLoaded


That's it.  Your movie will loop around in the

preloader until all of the frames are loaded.


Hoped I helped.


Zohar.

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