Hello
I’ve seen a lot of posts on this subject, and I promise I’ve tried endlessly to make sense of the solutions that other people have posted. But I cannot seem to get any code to work my my purposes, so I decided to post my own thread.
I have a main parent Flash movie that I need to load 7 exteral SWFs into. Each of the SWFs is like its own scene in a longer movie. The external files are called:
mc1.swf
mc2.swf
mc3.swf
mc4.swf
mc5.swf
mc6.swf
mc7.swf
The final parent movie should play each external SWF movie sequentially so that it appears as one combined movie (so none of the loaded SWFs are actually playing at the same time - they should only play one at a time, one after another). I want to preload mc1.swf, mc2.swf and mc3.swf into the cache before the parent movie starts playing (and I would like to include a progress bar to indicate loading status). Once those SWFs are preloaded, I would like them to start playing sequentially while the rest of the SWFs load in the background. Does this explanation make sense?
Basically, I have a long Flash animation that I decided to split up into several individual movies. I’ve using the parent movie to seamlessly string together my individual movies to give the appearance of cohesion. I have determined that I should use the MovieClipLoader Class and loadClip() to accomplish what I am trying to do. However, I have a very limited knowledge of actionscripting, so this has been a major challenge for me.
I am optimizing the parent SWF for the web, and it’s important that the video plays seamlessly, so I cannot put individual preloaders onto each external SWF. They have to preload at the beginning so that when each individual SWF is called, it’s already loaded and no preloader is required.
Is there any way someone could write out some sample code for me please? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated because I am working under a bit of a tight deadline.
Thanks in advance.
