Re: FLASH: Loading Multiple Movies

[Alex Beckett]

Hi Cheri

I actually solved this problem yesterday (wednesday) afternoon. I originally

posted it yesterday morning, but it didn't come through on the list until

today for some reason... Anyways, the MIME was set properly, that wasn't the

problem. The problem was the way I had it set up. I originally had the

preloader in the first of the 4 movies that would play in sequence. That

apparently is what was giving me the problem. I took the preloader out and

put it in it's own separate movie, and it worked fine! Go figure?

Thanks anyways,

alex


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> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:38:23 -0800

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From: "Cheri Harder" <chericahome [dot] com>

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Loading Multiple Movies

>

> Alex - could it be that the MIME isn't set on the server you're testing it

> on?  That will produce inconsistencies, I've been told, and it does seem

> like Netscape is more finicky...

>

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From: "Alex Beckett" <alexbnitromedia [dot] com>

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 8:19 AM

> Subject: FLASH: Loading Multiple Movies

>

>

> > 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 l!

> > imitation 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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