Flash 9 loader - external Jpegs very slow

[kazaneh]

Hi there,
I'm loading photos in my Loader when the event on(RollOver) is raised in the thumbnails. It is very straight forward but the external JPEGs take ages to load. I have optimised them in Photoshop and the biggest that I have is 30k... pretty small.

Anybody know how can I improve that? Maybe another format?? Pre-loading the photos??

I could include the photos in the libray and use different layers but I would prefer to use the external files since is easier to mantain.

Thanks everybody!!!!

 

[kennethkawamoto]

How does your loading code look like?

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[kazaneh]

Hi Kenneth,
It's only one line for each thumbnail.
-----------------------------------------------------------
on(rollOver)
{

this.ldPhoto.contentPath = "photo1.jpg";
}

----------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your help.
Kazan

 

[kennethkawamoto]

OK, so you're using the Loader component, that's fine. But you're loading the JPEG on rollOver. If you want to do that you should preload your JPEG, because the user expects something happens instantly on rollOver.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[kazaneh]

ok, that sounds good!!

You mean pre-load the photos when I'm loading the form for example. To be honest with you is the first time that I do this kind of things with flash.

Something like that??

on(load)
this.ldPhoto.contentPath = "photo1.jpg";
this.ldPhoto.contentPath = "photo2.jpg";
this.ldPhoto.contentPath = "photo3.jpg";.....

Thanks!!

 

[kennethkawamoto]

It's not that simple I'm afraid!

Move everything to frame 2 onwards, then place the following code in the frame 1. This code will load JPEG images in the Array in sequence and when it's done moves onto the frame 2.

// AS2 main timeline
var arrPhotos:Array = ["photo1.jpg", "photo2.jpg", "photo3.jpg"];
var photoCnt:Number = arrPhotos.length;
var loadingID:Number = 0;
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mcTemp", 1);
var mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var lo:Object = new Object();
mcl.addListener(lo);
lo.onLoadComplete = function(mc:MovieClip):Void  {
	trace(mc._url+" loaded");
	trace("***");
	loadingID++;
	if (loadingID<photoCnt) {
		loadPhoto(loadingID);
	} else {
		trace("All loading completed");
		trace("***");
		mcTemp.unloadMovie();
		gotoAndStop(2);
	}
};
function loadPhoto(id:Number) {
	mcl.loadClip(arrPhotos[id], mcTemp);
}
loadPhoto(loadingID);
stop();
//

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[kazaneh]

Hi Kenneth,
I really appreciate your help!!!

I have to use just 6 photos, so I have include them in the library and works perfect.

Now I have to find out a solution for my other problem. I think that I will make a new post for the slow issue that I have to load the main page.

Thanks again man!!
Kazan