# In Need of Quick Help for School Project **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [August 9, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777 "2004-08-09T03:59:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![whimsicalmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@whimsicalmom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/whimsicalmom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/1 "2004-08-09T03:59:16Z")
I am working on my senior design project and have a major problem. I think it can be easily solved but I am stumped. I am creating a Flash dress up game. When you click on an article of clothing, it pops up on the model. This should all be done very quickly like in this game at [http://www.tommy.com/kids/whatsin/fashionfriends.jsp](http://www.tommy.com/kids/whatsin/fashionfriends.jsp). My game at [http://www.speckledhenmedia.com/game/flash\_fashion.swf](http://www.speckledhenmedia.com/game/flash_fashion.swf) loads incredibly slow. I’ve got to get this working fast by the end of this week. Can someone help me? I have this set up to load movieclips into empty movie clips. When you click a shirt the shirt movieclip goes into the empty\_shirt clip. I’ve tried preloading the movieclips but that doesn’t seem to work. Is there a way to load the internal movieclips into the empty movieclips on stage or a way to preload these external movieclips faster? Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Candace ---
**Author:** ![whimsicalmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@whimsicalmom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/whimsicalmom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/2 "2004-08-09T04:41:48Z")
I posted the wrong link for my game. The correct link is [http://www.speckledhenmedia.com/game/fresh\_fashion.swf](http://www.speckledhenmedia.com/game/fresh_fashion.swf) I am now wondering if part of my problem is a super slow server. Thanks C ---
**Author:** ![signifer123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@signifer123](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/signifer123)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/3 "2004-08-09T04:47:59Z")
never mind i started to look at your code more and it probably was slow server ---
**Author:** ![whimsicalmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@whimsicalmom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/whimsicalmom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/4 "2004-08-09T04:53:55Z")
Yeah your right, I checked it again on another server and same problem. On my computer it loads perfect so I don’t understand. Any suggestions on how to make it work right? I’m willing to recode the whole thing so any ideas would be a big help. Tx ---
**Author:** ![signifer123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@signifer123](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/signifer123)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/5 "2004-08-09T05:05:10Z")
what flash do ya have? ---
**Author:** ![signifer123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@signifer123](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/signifer123)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/6 "2004-08-09T05:18:39Z")
here is a flash that runs withut load movie [Download Here](http://signifer123.tripod.com/libertyhighscc/id5.html) ---
**Author:** ![whimsicalmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@whimsicalmom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/whimsicalmom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/7 "2004-08-09T11:55:02Z")
Signifier, I have the latest Flash Player. I clicked on the link you have there and only a page with code popped up. I don’t think the problem is the player, I think it’s the actionscript. I’d really like to get this working properly. Thanks, ~C ---
**Author:** ![signifer123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@signifer123](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/signifer123)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/8 "2004-08-09T12:08:26Z")
i agcve you a bad link i fixed it last night it is a .fla file not swf so you know how it was done even thoguh it is a poorly drawn picture and ok i’m gonna try to fix that try right clicking and doing save target as on this link [Flash File](http://signifer123.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/romanpeople.fla) ---
**Author:** ![signifer123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@signifer123](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/signifer123)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/9 "2004-08-09T12:12:07Z")
does anyone have an upload place i can upload to tripod gave out on me ---
**Author:** ![whimsicalmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@whimsicalmom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/whimsicalmom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/10 "2004-08-09T14:46:39Z")
I really appreciate your help. I’m going to try downloading your file right now to see what your talking about. I also found this thread [http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-214.html](http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-214.html) and they say never to use unload movieclip because it clears the browsers cache. I got rid of all the unload movieclips scripts and I believe the movie is loading faster. Can you try the game now for me and see if it is fast loading on your end. [color=#003366][http://www.speckledhenmedia.com/game/fresh\_fashion.html](http://www.speckledhenmedia.com/game/fresh_fashion.html)[/color] [color=#003366]Thanks[/color] [color=#003366]~C[/color] ---
**Author:** ![whimsicalmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@whimsicalmom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/whimsicalmom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/11 "2004-08-09T14:50:12Z")
Nevermind, I just reloaded the page and it’s still not loading fast. Back to the drawing board! ---
**Author:** ![whimsicalmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@whimsicalmom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/whimsicalmom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/12 "2004-08-09T15:00:28Z")
When I try to save your link, it saves it as an .htm page and not an .fla I have no idea why. ---
**Author:** ![whimsicalmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@whimsicalmom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/whimsicalmom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/in-need-of-quick-help-for-school-project/118777/13 "2004-08-09T19:01:12Z")
I decided to go about this a different way. I got rid of the external movie clips altogether and now will use one movie clip per clothing style (tops, pants, shoes). Then when the corresponding button is pushed I use the d the code “gotoandstop” command to point to the right clip. This actually works really well and totally eliminates the lag time between uploading movieclips. It’s not how I intended to do the project but it works so I’m sticking with it. Thanks signifer123 for all your help. If anyone reading this thread knows how to do what I asked for before, please let me know. I still would like to know how to do this properly in case I ever need it in the future. Thanks ~C