Hi!
My first post to the forum.
I’ve successfully created some preloaders, but now my project is to figure how to pre-load large, external movies.
I have four external .swf files with ten-minute sound track on each one. These are from a lecture for which I want the user to listen and control.
Would I use the loadMovie function?
What I am really sweating is the complete download for the first one, which should simply signal the next movie in sequence (they are all similar, with different content) and continue until all four are downloaded while the user has been listening to the first one.
The user may also decide to listen to only one quarter of the presentation, and return.
I am “stitching the head of Frankenstein,” here, trying to patch together various tutorials and having fun with it; making this item function to collect email addresses before allowing them to listen, so the preloader opens the first small movie (the interface itself) which, should call the first movie even while the user is inputting their name and email.
My structure is three scenes: 1. preloader, 2. Get the email addy, 3. listen to my lecture.
I would appreciate any links to tutorials or any coding hints that will help make this project successful.
For now, it is uploaded with only the first sound track present at
http://www.ancientsky.com/seminar20033.cfm
This is not the final “draft” but a working copy to get the functions in, and certainly no preloader… it works on the desktop, but I haven’t seen it actually function on-line.
Whatever detailed help you might suggest, or study elsewhere with tutorials, I would be delighted.
Thanks in advance for all your trouble!
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