Need suggestion on expanding a flash movie

I've got a flash movie I made for my website at http://www.stairwell.net, on the Photos page. Now what I want to do is to add more photos. Problem is, my movie is already 322KB, so I wonder if i should add the extra photos to the same movie, or just use the existing movie as a template, and make 3 or 4 more with different pictures. but then wouldn't it be really hard to make minor changes to the interface, as I'd have to repeat it for x amount of movies I create?

seems there should be an easier way, i.e., flash only loads one "group" of photos (as I define) at a time. but I don't know how to go about this.

thanks! -tim

Why not just put your images into a new SWF movie, one image per frame, and just load the image SWF movie into the new one.

ok, that sounds like it would make good sense. but how does that work? can i just reference frames from an outside .swf from within my existing movie?

so can this be done? how would I go about it?

I am not sure if you can load an External movie to a specified Frame. But you can put each image into an external file. Then in your Main movie, make a blank MC. Bring it on your main movie timeline where you wan the image to load and give it an instance name. Then, whatever you want to use as your button to load a new movie, assign it the coding:

Code:

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On (Release)
LoadMovie ("moviename.swf" , /INSTANCE NAME)

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You just have to make sure that your external movies are in the same directory as your Main movie.

so, will i need to make each pic its own movie?

I would like info on this too :)

I'm kind of putting my project on hold, hoping that someone will give me advice on the best way to proceed on this. basically, i made a flash movie that will display thumbnails and fullsize versions of pics, and I want to add more pics to the movie. should I just add them to the same movie (making the movie huge in effect), or what is the best way to put the pics in an external file, and reference them from the movie? thanks.