Flash Bugs 1

[PCSAARON]

I designed a flash movie that has a loader scene that waits until the movie has been loaded before playing the main scene. The main scene has only 1 frame that contains a few mouse over buttons. There is one layer that I used for a movie clip that contains menus for each button.
These menus each have 5 frames. So for 5 buttons that would be 25 frames for this menu movie clip. The module works GREAT! It shows the appropriate menu when each button is rolled over, and then they dissapear when rolled out.

The problem that I am running into, is that when it is put online, the movie works very well 95% of the time for me (broad band). I have another person that uses a 28.8 Dialup connection that loads the movie, and when it plays, the menus do not sppear. The mouse overs change the color of the buttons so I know the mouse overs are working. But what about the menus? They aren't appearing. When they hit the refresh button on the browser, it then works fine. What could be the problem here??

I also have another move that goes nuts on me. I created the almost exact same thing, but when the user mouses over a certain image the LARGER view of the image shows in the middle of the module. These larger images are in a movie clip and there are about 20 images in there. Once the movie loads, the larger images will cycle through from the beginning to the end and repeat itself over and over again in an endless loop. This ONLY happens 95% of the time. When the refresh button is clicked on the browser it then works fine.

If anyone has any light to shed on this, please let me know. Thanks.

Aaron

 

[oldnewbie]

What's your preloading code?

Regards,

 

[PCSAARON]

Here are the three frames that are used:
//----------------------------------------
Setup Frame:
ProgressPercent = 0;

//Determine overall size in bytes your of movie
movieSize = this.getBytesTotal();

//Determine how many bytes are in 1/100 of the animation (1 percent)
moviePercent = movieSize/100;

//-----------------------------------------
PreloadLoopFrame:
// Detemine how many bytes are currently loaded
current = this.getBytesLoaded();

ProgressPercent = Math.round(current/moviePercent);

//-----------------------------------------
NextFrame:
if (ProgressPercent<100) {
ProgressString = String(int(ProgressPercent))+&quot;%&quot;;
gotoAndPlay (&quot;PreloadLoop&quot;
} else {
ProgressPercent = 100;
ProgressString = &quot;100%&quot;;
gotoAndPlay (&quot;Main&quot;, 1);
}
//-----------------------------------------

 

[PCSAARON]

Well, I circumvented the problem by adding a few BLANK frames before the actual main frame of the scene. This fixed the issue. It seems that flash will drop frames. REAL NICE if the one frame happens to have a bunch of action script in it...

Aaron