Tutorial on transition and preloading external files - problem

1

The tutorial is very good but i think there is something wrong: i think the preloading of the files doesn’t actually work. I tried to set a connection speed and i noticed that even with the slowest one the preloading sequence acts as if the files are already loaded. I’ve been trying to figure out what’s wrong the whole day and i’m starting to give up. I think the problem is within this peace of script atached to the content movie clip:
if (!loaded && this._url != _root._url) {
if (this.getBytesLoaded() == this.getBytesTotal())
The condition must be always true. Actionscript is a bit new to me and i just can’t make it work.
I have one more question: Can somebody explain to me what’s does the first condition actually mean and what does Flash do if the whole condition is false?
I deleted " !loaded " and " this._url != _root._url " one at a time just to see what happens but i still can’t understand what is going on.

I’ll be happy to read what you guys think.

2

dude, very tired right now… are you selecting view>show streaming when you test your movie? otherwise you can change the internet connection setting all day long and no difference…

3

That’s exanctly what i’m doing view>show streaming and then just try different settings.

4

is that the entire code you have attached to your mc?

it should read like this:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (!loaded && this._url != _root._url) {
		if (this.getBytesLoaded() == this.getBytesTotal()) {
			loaded = true;
			_root.transition.gotoAndPlay("opening");
		}
	}
}

the first line:

onClipEvent (enterFrame){

triggers
the AS when the MC exists or plays its first frame.
the 2nd line:

if (!loaded && this._url != _root._url){

could be written in plain english as “if this clip’s content is not loaded AND this URL does not equal the _root.url (you define the root url with your buttons clicks right?) then do whatever is in these brackets”.

Essentially you’re first checking to see if the requested (button clicked) information is already loaded because you don’t want to have the transition play and reload what is already loaded.

can you dig it?