Wrote Faris,
Hi Lee,
Sorry for disturbing you..I want to do a preloader movie that load (load to
the memory or however) all swf files contained in the movie and starts the
Main Movie. (my movie has more than 25 swf files a bit heavy. so if its
loaded before playing the movie in the preloader, it will helpfull) I hope
you will assist me to do this and if you can send me the fla file.
Waiting for you reply...
Million thanks,
Faris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Goldschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Shockwave or Flash?
> Kerry Thompson wrote
> <.....>
> > ...do multiple Flash movies on a
> > page launch multiple instances of the Flash player? And if so, what's
the
> > RAM hit?
> >
>
> In my experience with Flash, the number of external movies that are added
to
> a main movie does not matter as much as the amount of movement and
tweening
> that is going on - as well as the complexity of the objects that comprise
> the movie.
>
> That is, 30 external movies that contain a button in the first frame, each
> of which just sits there waiting for a mouse event is far different than
> even 5 external movies., each of which contains complex shapes with lots
of
> nodes in them with all sorts of special effects and lots of tweens.
>
> If your design is such that only one of the 30 external movies are
actually
> "playing" at one time - as opposed to just waiting for the mouse event -
> then in my experience the number of buttons should not be an issue.
>
> To test the performance of the movies that you will be loading, you could
> create a main Flash movie and follow these steps:
>
> 1. Use the insert New Symbol menu option to create an empty movieClip
> 2. Add this empty symbol to the stage and give it an instance name of
> Container
>
> 3. Add something like the following code to the first frame of the movie:
>
>
> moviesToLoad = new Array();
>
> function preloadMovies (initDepth) {
> if (this.moviesToLoad.length != 0) {
> for (i=0; this.moviesToLoad.length; i++) {
> depth = initDepth+i;
> duplicateMovieClip (Container, "Container"+depth, depth);
> loadMovie (this.moviesToLoad.pop(), "Container"+depth); }
> } else {
> trace ("the array is empty");
> }
> }
>
> moviesToLoad = new Array();
> with (moviesToLoad) {
> push("movie1.swf");
> push("movie2.swf");
> push("move3.swf");
> <.........>
> push("movie30.swf");
> }
> initDepth = 5;
>
> preloadMovies(initDepth);
>
>
> This should load the movie1.swf through movie30.swf on top of each other.
> (Of course the external swf files will need to exist and be local to the
> main movie) It won't be pretty, but it should give you an idea of the
> issues involved.
>
> hope this helps,
> Lee Goldshcmidt
>
>
>
>
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