Re: FLASH: DIFFERENT LEVELS LOADING MOVIES

[John Croteau]

Hi Patrick,


> Can someone tell me a little about the different levels of loading

> movies (e.g. level 0, level 1), and how important they are in creating

> flash movies?

Flash 3 allows you to compose Flash presentations built with different

Flash Movies (.swf files) layered into different Levels. The initial

movie has a set level 0 (zero). Additional levels can have any Level#

between 1 and 16,000. Higher levels overlay lower ones with lower Levels

seen through the empty (transparent) areas.


Movie Clips and Load Movies can perform identical tasks.

Always use Movie Clips unless Load Movie is better. Movie Clips are much

easier to implement and cause no loading headaches. Load Movies are

separate and independent .swf Movies that download independent of the

main movie. This can cause problems because it isn't easy to determine

if a required point in a Movie loaded with Load Movie is available when

called by Tell Targets.


Use Load Movie if the 'Movie segment' is used across more than 1 Scene.

Use Load Movie if options are large and not in a predictable sequence

and random-access loading of individual components would be

advantageous.


Use the Park method to preload Load Movies especially if they don't

stream well. In the Park Method you load a Load Movie that has a Stop

Action often in the first frame (Park) that is an empty Blank Keyframe

and the action in that Movie doesn't start until a Tell Target is sent

to it.


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