RE: FLASH: Scenes should be AVOIDED???

[David Williamson]

The load movie command is VERY POWERFULL  feature of flash 3. think

about this.


If you create a set of seperate movies that talk to each other via a

'container' moviebyt cheacking where the seperate movies ahve there

biggest hits in the bandwidth profiler you can load in other swf into

the viewers cache vie aht base movie, also if you manage to workout the

average time that it takes a user to get the main companents of your

site in, you can have event actions triggerd that pullin any other

content.


This is somthing i had planned for the BBC Medicine through tim, but

time was against us.


Loading in movies is not always preferable to scenes, if you have lotas

of scenes with new symbols in, you start getting penalties in terms of

files size of your final SWF. however, the file is still going to

stream, something that dosent always go smoothly with loading movies.


Also there are problems with the mac plugin which means it can get a bit

twitchy if you try and load more than one Movie at a time. You need to

wait for the whole of one movie to load before you load the next.


the parked state i presume would just be a blank first frame with a stop

command on the movie that is loading in. You could even substitute this

with its own If frame is loaded loop so the user knows why they cant do

anything as it comes in.


cheers dave

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> -----Original Message-----

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From: Marc Hoffman [SMTP:marchofjps [dot] net]

> Sent:	11 December 1998 21:44

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To: flashershocker [dot] com

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

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> 

> >If I load it on another level won't the main movie "show

> >through"? You say the "movie can move to its own parked frame".

> >How is this done?

> >

> 

> Create a frame, usually at the beginning or end of the movie, that has

> a

> stop action in it (so it won't play on).  Create a keyframe for every

> layer

> at that point in the timeframe, and delete all graphics for that

> frame.

> Give the frame a label ("parked" is useful since many Flash developers

> use

> it by convention).  Now whenever you tell the main timeline to go to

> "parked," the movie will stop and will be invisible.

> 

> 

> Marc Hoffman

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