Preloading problem

Hi Guys,

I’m not sure if it is just me who faces this problem. Does flash display everything for a moment for you even before looking at the action scripting OR mask property on Frame 1.

For example - Lets say we have a graphic on layer 1 and a mask for it on layer 2. Mask covers just 50% of the graphic. So logically when we acess this .swf through any browser then only 50% part of the graphic should be visible from the beginning itself. But actually what happens is that first everhting on the graphic shows up for a minute fraction of a second and then suddenly Flash realizes that it has a mask so then it suddenly hides 50% part of it.

This happens both with AS2 and AS3. Is there any setting which checks the code on frame 1 or even the mask property first before displaying things?

Thanks.