Have you ever had this happen?

[Nick Ford]

Here's the deal: I have an HTML called "index.html" that contains an SWF
called "index.swf" that has an opening intro which morphs into the main
page. After clicking on any one of the buttons you are taken to plain Jane
HTML pages that contain a "Back To Main Page" button. After clicking on
that button you are taken to a file called "mainpage.html" that contains an
SWF called "mainpage.swf". "mainpage.swf" loads "index.swf" onto _level1
and then uses a tellTarget command to cause "index.swf" to jump to frame #
265 which contains the main page, so that the user does not have to see the
intro again nor load a new movie. It all works fine and dandy on my CPU,
however on anyone else's it just plays the entire into over again. Even on
CPUs that have just downloaded and installed the latest Flash 5 player. How
come it works fine for me, but not for anyone else? Any advice?

[Ilya]

Hi !

You must be sure that frame 256 of index.swf is already loaded in mainpage.swf before jumping to that frame. Yes - it must be loaded from cache, but evem loading from cache will take some time. So try to say to index.swf stop first, then check for frame 256 (and wait if it is not ready) and only after it jump to frame 256 and play

[Nick Ford]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm. I didn't think of that! Makes sense though. I'll try it out and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the help.

Nick

[Nick Ford]

Sorry, it didn't work. Well, actually, once again it works when I view it at home (even on the internet), but on anyone else's CPU it doesn't work.

This is what I did:

I put 3 blank keyframes at the beginning of my index.swf. The first contains a goto command telling flash to jump to frame 4 (frame 4 is the first that contains graphics). The second empty keyframe contains a script that checks frames loaded against frames total and if they are equal it jumps to frame 265. The second frame also contains a marker called "MainCheck". The third frame obviously contains script with a go to "MainCheck" command. Anyway, in my other swf called main.swf (the one that loads index.swf) I use tellTarget to make index.swf on _level1 goto an play "MainCheck". There is really no reason why this should not work for anyone else, so if you've got any other advice I could use it. Thanks again for your help.

Nick

[Ilya]

Hi !

Can you just say url to your problem ?