i have one huge flash file which has links to other flash files and want to run them as a self running full screen projector (or projectors) how do you link them or make this work. i’m using flash 5 the huge flash file has multiple scenes with movie clip animations, sound and time line animations and has become unmanageable to add to (it takes about 10 minutes to export and i have to assign all my memory to author it, originally it was a website with links (get url) to html pages with a javascript behaviour in the page to resize it. all these popups i’ve made into flash files. would appreciate any help.
cheers, matt ling.
Loading movies into one another is very straightforward in flash and there are a lot of tutes on this site - try searching for “load movie”. The two commands you’ll be using are: loadMovie() and/or loadMovieNum(). Both load an external swf into the main movie.
As regards structuring your Flash content - Flash doesn’t like big files and swfs bigger than 8-9 MB tend to become unstable. Unless you need everything in one swf, separate your content e.g. each scene for starters into separate swfs.
If you worried about losing variables, you can pass these in and out of loaded swfs as well - again there are tutes on the site.
From a usability perspective websites should be broken into as many small swfs as practicable. You have no way of knowing where in your site viewers want to browse to and forcing them to sit through a lengthy download for content they may very well not look at or ambient background sound they possibly can’t or don’t want to listen to doesn’t encourage them to come back.
thanks for the reply jsk, i was able to get a projector to open another projector with the fs command exec, with an fs command on the first frame Ð open full screen, it looks like its the same projector (actually do you know of any way to make this appear transparent because the movie opens and then goes full screen?) thanks for your help, matthew ling.
If you design your FLA larger than the largest likely screen area e.g. 1600x1000px it should open at full screen.
Opening multiple EXEs isn’t a bad workaround but bear in mind that if you’re running from CD there can be a lag in spinning up the disc and an impatient viewer who clicks repeatedly will open up multiple EXEs behind each other. You might want to consider using a time locked button to call the FS command.
