what happens to the member().mediaReady? (when does it go true)
hth -Buzz At 4:46 PM -0400 9/3/02, you wrote: >hi all - >i'm trying to load a somewhat heavy quicktime video off a cd through >lingo (~30MB). I have a static sprite (a regular old bmp) sitting on >the stage, i turn on the preload property of the qt, preload the >member, and then switch the static sprite's member to the qt video >once the quicktime's loaded property is true. > >my problem is, it seems that the loaded property returns true before >the video is actually loaded into memory, causing a nice blank type >appearance while it finishes loading. I've been watching win 2k >pro's memory inspector, and it shows the memory climbing (about the >size of the movie file size) after loaded returns true. > >is there a better way? i've tried checking the "streaming" property, >but it seems from reading d8.5 help that steaming applies to network >steaming. > >i'm preloading w/ >pMemberToChangeTo.preload=1 >preLoadMember pMemberToChangeTo > >where pMemberToChangTo is a reference to the video member > >i'm check the load status w/ >if pMemberToChangeTo.loaded<>1 then > pStatus=12 > put "loading" >else > put "loaded" > pStatus=11 >end if > >where pStatus just indicates to other code where to go. > > >Any help/advice is very much appreciated, > >Evan > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the >list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with >programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
