FLASH: Loading Multiple Movies

[Alex Beckett]

Hi Flashers,


I was just wondering if anyone else has experience loading multiple movies? I've got a preloader that's loading 4 different .swf's. The way it works is like this: Each movie is on a separate layer and loads to a blank frame. Once each movie is loaded, it adds one to a variable on level 0 called movieCount. Once this varible reaches 4, meaning all 4 movies have loaded, the first movie begins to play. This all works fine locally. When I test it online however, I get inconsistent results. In Netscape, for example, the first movie will only load 160K no matter what, so it never loads the end and therefore never sends the variable that it is done The first movie also never even shows up in the Netscape status bar. In Internet Explorer, it worked perfectly for me, but two of my co-workers experienced problems loading and viewing. Unfortunatly I can't post the URL because of NDA. I'm just wondering if anyone else has had similar problems? Does the Netscape plug-in have some kind of limitation for multiple pre-loading?

As far as I can tell, this should work fine, and it did on my machine, so that shows that the logic is right (it's really not very complicated). I just don't know what else to try and the deadline is quickly approaching... Any input is greatly appreciated.


TIA

alex beckett



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