Flash Loading Hangs

programming flash
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Hi–

I am using Flash version 6 and created a 2MB file. It has a preloader and everything works just fine in preview mode and when clicking on the published (local) .html file.

When I publish the project to a website…

Clicking on the link to start the presentation loads the preloader and the first 500-800KB transferred or so has no problems. Then it slows, hangs, and just sits there. It takes up to 10 minutes to load the remaing 1.2MB–and I’m using DSL.

The IE (version 6) is showing it is still active (spinning logo) and I can click on the other navigation buttons of my site so I know the web server, computer, and browser are not locked.

Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Everet

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Knee jerk reaction:

It’s sounds like it may be in the preloader code and/or how you have it structured.

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But why would it work in preview and local modes and not when posted to a website?

After all, it does FINALLY load…just want to know why it takes so long.

And the preloader code is from this site.

The movie is simple 14 pictures (key frames) and 2 buttons to move between them…a photo album of sorts.

Everet

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Because preview and local are already loaded. Even the 56k preview is really only a facsimily preveiw. You have already done the hard part, now you have found a problem in testing mode, Which preloader are you using?

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I am using the percentpreloader tweaked to show the total bytes of the movie.

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I’d have to look at the code, do you have the link?

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Sure: http://216.101.212.198/sample/

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I’m sorry but I’m only on 56k. it would take way to long to download the fla, can you zip it up so I can see it?

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Okay, I zipped the file…only save about 200K – which is better than nothing at 56K speed. :slight_smile:

Is there a way to print anything out or otherwise display the information for you?

Everet

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ok I got it, you need to double click on all the jpg files and hit the dropdown box and choose lossless on every jpg. or use some other image editor to bring the file size down, As for the preloader, use the getFramesLoaded since the movie is consisted that way…