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    Preloading individual scenes

    Hello,

    I have built a web site in one whole .swf. It is split into scenes and there is a preloader for each scene. This works great.

    The preloader used is one that displays the percentage of the loaded file in the form of a bar.

    The problem is that when pre viewing the site, it will not play untill the ENTIRE site is loaded. This means that it takes a while for the site to load.

    I would like to know if it is at all possible to load each scene individually while still showing the user how much of the page is loading.

    For example - loading scene 1, then when loaded playing scene 1, while the rest of the site loads.

    If you get me?
    Can anyone help?
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    You can not stop Flash from loading, and it will always load things in the order the scenes are.
    One way to check if scene 1 is loaded is to check for _framesLoaded instead of the usual getBytesTotal(); as this checks for the whole movie.

    So you have to count the frames and ask

    if(_root._framesLoaded == 124 ){
    // Do something

    ....then you know that 124 frames has been loaded and can sen the timeline to the next place.

    You can have the preloader inside or ON a movieclip so it will run independently of the current timeline. You have to use one/scene though ( in all 3 different movieclips ).

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    Thanks

    Thank you for this. I shall give this a try.

    Im not entirely hot on action scripting so it'll probably take me ages to figure out how this 'll fit into the rest of my code.

    I'll come back if I have any difficulties.

    Cheers
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