preloading sound from external SWF

[gdstudios]

How do some people preload their background loops before the main movie begins? I have several swf's, one for the main page, each content page, and one for the sound loop. I have a preloader set up for the main movie, but I would like to have the main movie begin after preloading both the main movie and the music. Any suggestions?

[Xurion_Flash_Man]

Originally posted by gdstudios
How do some people preload their background loops before the main movie begins? I have several swf's, one for the main page, each content page, and one for the sound loop. I have a preloader set up for the main movie, but I would like to have the main movie begin after preloading both the main movie and the music. Any suggestions?

Like many people, I use the sound object and the attachSound command.

I have my main.swf file and my sound.swf file.

In the sound.swf, I only have my sound in the library. (this sound has a linkage name for actionscript)

In the first frame of the sound.swf file, I use code like this:

createEmptyMovieClip("soundholder", 1);
soundholder.mainsound = new Sound();
soundholder.mainsound.attachSound("linkageName");

This is MX code.

If you loaded this sound.swf into your main.swf file, you would have to use code like this to control the sound:

_level2.soundholder.mainsound.setVolume(50);

This just sets the volume of the sound.

XFM

[gdstudios]

Thanks Xurion, I will give this a shot later today. One more question. I would like to have a section of the main.swf that has a visible preloader while the sound.swf loads. Is this possible using your method, or does your method only mean that the main.swf will wait to begin until after the sound.swf has preloaded?

Thanks again.

[Xurion_Flash_Man]

The best thing to do is to load the movie lets say into level 1. Then you would use this code in the main movie:

soundloaded = _level1.getBytesLoaded()
soundtotal = _level1.getBytesTotal();
percentage = Math.round(soundloaded / soundtotal * 100);

This shows the bytes loaded of the movie in level 1.

XFM

[gdstudios]

As I am still polishing up my actionscripting, do you know of any examples for what you are suggesting I do? Any FLA's? Any tutorials? I hate to be a pain, but I really like when websites have this feature. Thanks again for the help.

[Xurion_Flash_Man]

I don't know of any at the moment. Why don't you try the sound forum on FK? Thats if you haven't already.

XFM

[gdstudios]

I have, but no response.