Re: FLASH: Scenes should be AVOIDED???

[Marc Hoffman]

At 01:30 PM 12/9/98 -0800, you wrote:


>1. Should and entire site done in flash be just ONE long movie? with links

>to labels?

>OR...

>Should it be many different swf. files - different movies (one for each

>scene)


Hi Jayse.


It's mainly an issue of streaming and how much content and whether it will

be viewed linearly or does the visitor have options to jump around. When

there's lots of content that's called by the viewer in an unpredictable

order, loading movies on different levels makes sense.


Movies can be preloaded by having them start in a parked frame (a frame

that has a stop action and has no visible content) so they don't show until

you tellTarget them to move ahead. You can plan to preload as much as

possible, and also use If Frame Is Loaded so that if a movie hasn't loaded

by the time it's called for, something else (a preloader animation) can

happen while it's loading.


The disadvantage of multiple movies is that they cannot share symbols in a

common library.  Movie clips within one movie, on the other hand, use the

same library.




Marc Hoffman

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