Re: FLASH: preload images and swf

[John Dowdell]

At 10:03 AM 6/29/0, ">>Dustin Krysak wrote:

> Does anyone know if you can preload a swf file with JavaScript? Meaning

> with the preload images command in dreamweaver.


Sorry, if you'll check into the behavior you'll see it uses the array of

image objects which modern browsers offer. Because Flash content is handled

by the OBJECT or EMBED tag, which do not have a settable SRC attribute as

the IMG tag, the same JavaScript methods will not work as they do for

images.


(That said, you can preload it on a previous page. If you're preloading for

fast display, then a well-designed SWF will start up quickly anyway and

then stream... search the Flash technotes with keyword "fast start" for

more.)


jd







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