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    PLEASE HELP (preloaders) PRETTY PLEASE

    ok I have a site with a preloader that has about 10 pages each is like 250 kbs.
    I need to put preloaders in front of each page.
    Can someone please tell me how to get the pages to load individually?
    I can build the preloader but dont know how to make the pages load one at a time as opposed to all together.

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    Please be specific as far as how my button commands work in relation to the preloaders and pages.

    I know this is a basic question and would really appreciate any help.
    MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!!

    thank you.

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    you can have one container movie and have all of the pages be externally loaded swfs in different scenes of the main movie. Then just put the preloader into each of the individual swfs.

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    Im confused. Do you mean i need to publish each scene as an swf then put the preloader infront of them? I dont know what you mean by externaly loaded, and container movie.Will my buttons need to be changed as far as from (go to and play next scene) to ( go to and play WHAT????)
    This is where i get confused.
    Last edited by tyler78210; 07-12-2006 at 11:58 AM.

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    Sorry, when I get home from work I could set something small up so you could see how it works (and hopefully learn from it) but maybe someone else can help you out in the next few hours.

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    If your using scenes, and everything is all in one movie, you only need one preloader. You can't just load part of a single file. Once you start the loading process, it continues to load til it's all loaded.

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    Yeh but what I was saying is he can have all 10 pages as single swfs each with a preloader and load them into scenes of the main swf.

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    Yeah, the 'pages' part is kind of confusing.

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    What Im saying is i have a 10 scenes, i have one preloader in front of the 10 scenes. But with just the one preloader its taking forever to load. What i want to know is how do i put a preloader in front of each scene and have them load seperatley so when you go to the site its not loading the whole thing at once. I need to break the site up with preloaders infront of each scene.
    What i need to know is how can i use the preloader ive built to load the scenes seperately.
    Its a furniture site so it has a ton of pics.
    I need to load the front page, then when i go to say CHAIRS, load chairs
    Benches , load benches , ect.
    To use just the one preloader is taking to long.
    Ive tried putting the preloader ive built in front of the different scenes but its still loading the whole thing(with the first preloader) when you open it up.

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    You have to break it up. Put each category into a separate fla, with it's own preloader, then use loadMovie to bring them into a main movie.

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