Hi Kerry
There is another way around the situation, but it will require a little more
work. The loading piece would or could still be required.
Gopinath, the best thing that you could do in a situation like this is to
give your boss a good swift kick in the .... no, don't do that. There are
several lingo commands that might be of value to you, preloadNetThing being
the first and foremost. Depending how you set up your movies, they will
either download completely before playback or they will play while streaming
(after x number of frames have downloaded, where x is an integer and is set
under modify -> movies -> playback. Some people advocate downloading the
complete movie before playback begins... the reason being that it prevents
it from unexpected crashes and such. If this is the option that you've
chosen, and you have a series of movies that you will view in a linear
order, then you can begin to preload the next movie as soon as you enter the
first movie (or very shortly thereafter). You can track the progress of the
download and when you reach the end of the current movie, and the user
clicks on the go to next movie button, you might be able to send them
directly there without a hesitation, or an extremely short hesitation that
would be covered by Kerry's loading screen.
If your movies are truely only 45K in size as you suggest, then I would
certainly advocate setting the download entire movie before playback, and
use the above sequence of events, beginning peloading of the next movie
after entering the first and so forth. To monitor the progress of a
download, you can assign the preloadNetThing to a global variable (a netID)
and check its progress using commands such as netDone() or getStreamStatus()
etc... You also don't necessarily have to wait to issue the goToNetMovie
command when the enduser finishes the first movie, you can issue it
directly, and the movie would jump as soon as the preload finishes.
Just some additional ideas to make things smoother and get the boss of your
back. Don't know if it helped, I'm pretty much wiped out here after 36hrs
of work.
Sincerely
Mark
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Kerry Thompson
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Re: Lingo-L Digest V1 gotoNetPage & Cache
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>
>
> >and when the user ( my boss ) clicks on a button, thinks nothing
> happened so
> >he clicks again and again...
> >then he quits and tells me "YOUR LINKS DON'T WORK"
> >where do I go from here?
>
> First, get your boss a lifetime subscription to Dilbert, and ask
> him if he
> majored in sociology.
>
> I would put up a splash screen that says "Loading..." as soon as
> the button
> is clicked. You could make a little flash movie or film loop to
> play during
> loading to make it a little more interesting.
>
> There's no way of getting around the load time. You can cover it
> up, but if
> your boss wants to work on the Web, he has to accept reality.
>
>
> Cordially,
> Kerry Thompson
> Sr. Interface Engineer
> Learning Network
>
>
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