Re: FLASH: Preloading a swf

[John Dowdell]

At 1:39 PM 10/30/0, David Gee wrote:

>yes, but is there any way to use Javascript to cache flash movies before

>actually playing them? ie

>

>if (document.images)  {

> cached_image = New Image();

> cached_image.src = "image.gif";

>

>I haven't tried it yet, but I think replacing "image.gif" with "movie.swf"

>should work fine.



Sorry, the various JavaScript interpreters in various browsers don't offer

an "embed" object like they do an "image" object. They can't specify an

embed programmatically.


You can, of course, have a teeny instance of it in the previous page.


But it's better to design so the thing just plays easily:

"How can I make a SWF start quickly?"

http://www.macromedia.com/go/14300



jd






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