high level discussion on preloading stragegy....

[hugstable]

I am finally utilizing the container method for site structure - and it rocks... My container is pretty light and calls 3 external swf files to make up the content(nav.swf content.swf .chowder.swf). I am passing 3 variables when my nav buttons are clicked, each var coincides with the 3 individual movies i need to fill in my container. I think my preloader strategy would be to pass those 3 vars to my preloader script so that i can start the preoloader of the next scene.

What would be the best tutorial to utilize for this... i tried searching the forum but alot of the links are broken...

If you could also give me a high level explanation of how you think the preloader should work i would really appreciate it... Thanks!!!

 

[oldnewbie]

A preloader cannot load some individual scene and not others...
Once initiated, a preloader will preload the whole movie whether you like it or not.

http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/preloading/

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[hugstable]

i missworded this - sorry... Aftre spending the whole day i think i know how to word it - but i still cant code it... I guess this is progress...

i want container.swf to load normally. Inside container.swf i want to preload navie.swf, home.swf and imageEffect.swf.

after these files are preloaded i want to be able to load them to holderNav_mc, holderHome_mc and holderImageEffect_mc.

i hope that is less vague...

 

[oldnewbie]

Can you post a link to your files' .flas?

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[hugstable]

available at:

http://www.multimediapix.com/media/originals.zip

thankyou for the help!!! This is making me pull my hair out...

 

[hugstable]

i was fooling around with something like this today:
var images_mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("images_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var navie_mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("navie_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var home_mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("home_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());


var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var listener:Object = new Object();
listener.onLoadProgress = function(target:MovieClip, bytesLoaded:Number, bytesTotal:Number):Void {
trace(target + ".onLoadProgress with " + bytesLoaded + " bytes of " + bytesTotal);
trace("%" +Math.round(bytesLoaded / bytesTotal* 100 ));
}
listener.onLoadInit = function(target:MovieClip):Void {
trace(target + ".onLoadInit");
}


mcLoader.addListener(listener);
mcLoader.loadClip("images.swf", images_mc);
mcLoader.loadClip("navie.swf", navie_mc);
mcLoader.loadClip("home.swf", home_mc);

i could loadClip the movies to a location off the viewing area, and then move them to the stage in the next frame...

i would just have to put a simple ani on the stage while this was running...

would this be a decent way to get the job done????