Preload movie but don't play until specific frame

[davebosomworth]

Hi,

I'm pretty new to flash - I've looked at a lot of other posts but can't find one that answers my question so any help much appreciated.


Here's what I want to do;

I want to preload a movie into my main movie (so I know it's safely loaded fully). BUT I don't want it to start playing until a specific frame in the main movie?


Does anyone know how to do this in actionscript 2.0?

I'm using Flash 10

Many thanks

Dave

[intromo]

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

[vinayak.kadam]

Do following things to your preload movie:

1. Add a stop action on 1st frame
2. Do not keep any elements on 1st frame of any layer

When u reach to a particular frame on your main file where you wana play the preloaded movie, just say loaderClip_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);

Note: loaderClip_mc is the name of movie clip in which you will load teh pre-load movie clip. You may change this name as per your choice!