Preloading and Loading levels into flash Question?

programming flash
1

using this code :

on (rollOver) {
    loadMovieNum("homefire.swf", 1);
}

Will the animation be included in the total once I create a pre loader for the main stage? Why I ask is, I wan’t these animations to be ready once the page has loaded up, rather then flash loading them when the rollover has taken place, thus having a pause untill the download is complete.

2

So you want to add the preload size of the animation movie loaded into level1 and level0 together as one preloader. Or do you want a preloader in each seperate movie?

3

he’s asking if the loaded movie is part of the main movie and if the main preloader will preload all both at once!
never thought of that… :-
I think the main preloader will preload the main movie and then the loaded movie appears and it starts downloading and preloading the loaded one! :-\ might be wrong ofcors!

4

*Originally posted by dan4885 *
**So you want to add the preload size of the animation movie loaded into level1 and level0 together as one preloader. Or do you want a preloader in each seperate movie? **

Yes, I wan’t the preloader to actually load Level 0, 1 and so on as some animations will be necessary rather quickly, and a pause while it downloading level 1 would ruin the effect.

I assume that standard pre loaders only load level 0, leaving the other levels to be loaded only when they are called for. I really need some of these levels to be ready once level 0 is ready.

Cheers

5 
//Frame 1
loadMovieNum("yourmovie.swf", 1);

//Frame 2
kbytes_total = (_level0.getBytesTotal() / 1024) + (_level1.getBytesTotal() / 1024);
kbytes_loaded = (_level0.getBytesLoaded() / 1024) + (_level1.getBytesLoaded() / 1024);
if(kbytes_loaded >= kbytes_total) {
	_root.gotoAndStop(4)
}

//Frame 3
gotoAndPlay(2);

//Frame 4
//Start of your movie
6

Excellent, thankyou for the code :D, I assume that I can continue to add which levels I require, any restriction in doing so (I only have a very basic Actionscript understanding).

7

so… that code is gonna preload all the movies loaded in frame #1 at once?
[EDIT]OF course it will… wasn’t thinking clearly :smirk:[/EDIT]