Really need help fast! (preloading images)

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I made a website with slideshows, the pic’s in the slideshows are loaded external. With a fast internet connection that works fine. But I get reactions from people with a dial-up that they can’t see the pic’s. The only thing I need is a way to preload all images so that the slideshow works smoothly. Is there a way of doing this using a loadbar ( not necessary, just as an extra :wink: ). I need to have this sorted out within 3 hours.

Is there way to do this?
Thnx in advance

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the pic’s in the slideshows are loaded external.

how did you do that?

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I combined this tute: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader_transition.htm
with some experimenting with intervals

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where do you load you pics into, a level? or into a mc? and is your slideshow an extern .swf loaded in the main movie with the tutorial method? because if you use external .swf for your slideshow it’s easier to preload them…

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it is in a mc, but using an external swf would work the same so, I wondered how I could preload all pic in one time.So that when loaded into the slideshow they are loaded faster. Because they are already loaded.

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i’m sorry i think i’m not that advanced yet… ;( though i think its possible. but i don’t know how

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no problemo :wink:

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not sure how you have set up your movie butHave a look at this and see if it is any use to you
http://www.gifsrus.com/testfile/hierachyprel8.swf
basically it loads the movies in order and then changes the order if a user clicks a link.(all the text and big file for testing purposes only)
you could preload a few images at the start and then continue loading the rest as the viewer was browsing.

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was thinking about doing that and then suddenly i came to the conclusion it were over 50 pic’s. I was hoping there was a way I just entered their names and flash would preload them all together. But thnx Stringy

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if you have labelled the movies numerically it should be quite easy to set up