Re: FLASH: Re: Gabo: Preloading Images

[jayse]

Thanks for the explanations!


I'm somewhat familiar with the HTML preloading... and so definitely that  'load

movie' and just wait for it type thing is interesting... Kinda the same thing.


My wheels are turning... *s*


~ jayse





David Gary wrote:


> Scott Barlow wrote:

>

> > Jayse and all,

> >

> > You can load your images for pages that come later in your HTML pages by

> > making a reference to them in the fore-running pages. Say if you have

> > your 'index.html' and your second page is 'index2.html', you can make a

> > <IMG SRC> tag or your <OBJECT> tag or use JavaScript(preferred) and make

> > the size 1 pixel by 1 pixel. This will download the graphic/movies and

> > it will be in the cache of the computer by the time the person on your

> > 'index' or 'index2' pages get to the later page that the graphics are

> > used on.

> >

> > I think we also call this preloading. I found a great reference using

> > DHTML at:

> >

>

> Hiya Jayse,

>

> Wouldnt it be just as simple to do this with "load movie"

> Simply add a "load movie" action keyframe to your current movies timeline

> and it will begin

> loading another movie which you could leave in a "parked" mode on a seprate

> layer(unbeknownsed. Then further in the main

> movie it could be triggered by a keyframe or button and load the movie whil

> unloading your main movie

> if necessary.

>

> What are the pros/cons here?

>

> -DG-

>

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