Re: FLASH: Scenes should be AVOIDED???

[Sarah Lloyd]

If you have a button within one's "main" movie which, when

clicked on, loads a separate .swf file on the same level (so it

replaces the main movie, I guess?) how and when do you preload

this separate .swf file?



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From: Marc Hoffman <

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Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 8:32 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Scenes should be AVOIDED???



>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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