RE: FLASH: preloading swf files prior to LOAD MOVIE command

[Len Harrison]

I asked this question a couple of weeks ago but didn't get an answer. Maybe

I didn't make myself understood, maybe no one knows, or perhaps it got lost

in my other chatter. In any case, this looked like an opportunity to

resurface it again.


Suppose I have multiple html/flash files. The first one is pretty small but

has a lot of text and will take the user a while to work through. At some

point they will go to one of the others which are significantly larger. The

organization is like this:

intro.swf __ topic1.swf

         |__ topic2.swf

         |__ topic3.swf

...


User goes to each topic through intro as a hub. Each is a separate html+swf

document.


Now, if I preload the topicN.swf's within intro.swf while the user is

reading stuff, will they be written to the cache and will Flash (or the

browser) be smart enough to look for them there and not go to the server?


If so, does this work with nested movies? I.E.: topics 1,2, and 3 all use

"toolbox" which could be packaged as a movie clip inside each or loaded as

an .swf from each. If cached, the .swf load would work better. If not, the

movie clip would. Anyone know about this?


Finally, this may also have some significance. I don't seem to find any

.swfs in my IE cache. Does the activeX control just load these things

directly without caching them?


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

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

>

From: ownershocker [dot] com [ownershocker [dot] com]On">mailto:ownershocker [dot] com]On Behalf Of Marc

> Hoffman

> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 7:06 PM

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: preloading swf files prior to LOAD MOVIE command

>

>

> At 06:11 PM 11/12/98 -0800, you wrote:

> >does anybody know of a way to preload swf movies?


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