Re: FLASH: Preloading a swf

[Gregg Caines]

In that case, you can just use 'load movie' and have your loaded movie's

first frame be blank, with a 'stop' actionscript in it.  When you need it to

play, just target it and tell it to play.


That's the method I use because I avoid client-side scripting like the

plague.


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

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

> actually playing them? ie

>

> i have a flash movie three levels deep into my website, but i don't want

> people to have to look at a "loading..." screen when they link to it.

There

> is a lot of content on my homepage, and chances are people will spend some

> time viewing it before moving along. is there any way to cache the movie

> from the homepage? for images, you just put this between the head tags:

>

> 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. I don't think Javascript checks file extensions.

>

> You'd probably want to put the code inside a function and call it from an

> OnLoad event, so that it loads the page before caching the movie.

>

> david




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