I need to speed up a website.
This is the structure.
_ Html page no swf inside , 99% broswer friendly( still have to decide how & when detect the plug –in )
_ Main.sfw within a Pop-up window
in this main.swf i got 12 buttons which load 12 ext swf.
Each swf with its personal preloader.and smaller than main(stage size)
Every ext clip is around 100 / 200k that means { italian cables : ( } few second
And when the user click on a button nothing happen for 3 sec than start the loading and than the clip. The impression after the first click is that nothink is about to start so ( if u are in rush ) u click again and again loading the same moving over and over.
So till now i got 3 problem , not very clever buttons , ext swf to load as fast as i can and find some kind of smoothy way to make visible this site also for people that have to download the plug-in.
I my sick mind i was thinking to put some preload ( in the browser cache !???)inside the main.swf after is all ( the main.swf around 400k ) loaded . i can not load all the swf at once ‘cause the user will be waiting x 2MB.so i was wondering if I can use the time while the user is thinking which button to press…………( too quick ??).
I am lost.
I already posted questions like that but i still need some clarification .
Thanks for reading.
all the external swf are loaded into the main swf by some button with the function loadmov & tell target .
fine.
My question is : there is a way to pre load into browser cache all the ext clip so once the user is clicking on a button asking x the movie the wait it won’t be so long. ?
:hangover:
i´m sure Ilyas will come up with a better solution, but i´ll give it a try
you can load the movies all at once, and set the visibility ([COLOR=blue]_visible[/COLOR]) of the ‘to be loaded’ movies to [COLOR=blue]false[/COLOR], and then on the click of a button (the one that was loading the movie) you reset the visibility to [COLOR=blue]true[/COLOR].
it sound easy but i don’t know how to set the ( _visible).
at the moment the action on every button is
on (release) {
loadMovie(“ext.swf”, “my_dummy”);
}
Guig0’s solution is excellent. All you have to do is put all your “dummy” clips outside the scene, set the visibility to false (read the manual or search the forum a bit for that), and when you click a button, bring the clip where you want it and make it appear (_visible=true).
thanks i’ll try to do something .
i don’t understand one thing.
My dummy clip is just one, is empty and i use it to set the location where the external ( 12 ) swf will be showed.
So what about the scene ?.
sorry i am thick!
Simply use as many clips as movies you have to load. This is not a very clean solution though, and loading a section (in 1 “dummy” clip) when a user clicks a button might be a better solution.
i tryed your way 2 weeks ago and i had a problem.
Was hard x me to deal with more movies in the same stage at the same moment.
so i decided to put only one empty dummy in the main and make everything loading in there. I found this way easy, i do not have to use Unload movie and if the user want to see a different clip will click and the former movie will disappear.
I would like use 12 empty dummy clip ( so i can load every singol clip in a different location because now are all registered with the same left top corner point…)
ps do u think i can find any tutorial about the “visibility” linked to pre load movie.
thanks
goig to dinner back later…
ps 2 i need upload a .fla ( not about this topi ) but zipped is 128k and it doesn’t goes by…
