Preloading individual scenes

[strikefive01]

Hey,

Could anyone help me out with my preloading issue.

Basically, Ive created a site that is pretty small in file size but when I add my animation scene, the sites loading slows right down.

I currently have a preloader to load the whole site in one go but would prefer to just preload the animation page.

www.alexdunford.com

Any help would be great.

[Bernz]

You can use the loadMovie() function to replace an existing movieClip with an external swf file.
Try looking it up at http://livedocs.macromedia.com.

Hope that helps! If this doesn't help you enough, just say so.

[strikefive01]

Thanks, will give that a go now

[strikefive01]

I just can't seem to get it to open that 2nd swf file...

If I need a button to open the second swf file named alexdunford.com_02
Would the code be close to ...

on (release) {
loadMovie('alexdunford.com_2.swf',1,'GET');
}

[onine]

Hi

Create an empty movie clip and put it on the stage. Call the clip "emptyClip" and give it an instance name of "emptyClip". As you put it on the stage, bear in mind that its position will be the top-left hand extreme of the .swf you are going to load. Change your script to this:

on (release) {
emptyClip.loadMovie("alexdunford.com_2.swf");
}

Hope that helps

edit
nice folio by the way cool reel

[strikefive01]

Im really sorry but I just dont understand that lol (but I am a newbie)...

Do I create an empty clip in flash and export it as htm?

Is the instance the name of the page? eg, emptyClip.htm

Thanks

[691175002]

loadMovie loads a .swf into a movieclip on the stage.
emptyClip.loadMovie("alexdunford.com_2.swf");
will load the movie "alexdunford.com_2.swf" into the movieClip with the instance name emptyClip.

[strikefive01]

Excellent

Many thanks for your help man!

[onine]

Do I create an empty clip in flash and export it as htm?
Is the instance the name of the page? eg, emptyClip.htm

Hey, no worries.

Go into the file where you have created your site - the flash project where you have the menu on the left and the big box on the right.

Go to insert > new symbol or press ctrl+f8. This brings up the new symbol dialogue box. Name the new symbol "emptyClip", make sure the behaviour is set to movie and press ok.

When you press ok you are taken to symbol editing mode, but you dont want to edit it because you want it to stay empty for now. Come out of editing mode by pressing "scene1" at the top left of screen.

Ok. Now you are back to looking at your project. Open the library (window > library or ctrl+l) and find emptyClip in there. Create a new layer in the timeline and call it "empty clip" or "animation section" or something else descriptive. With that layer selected, drag emptyClip from the library to the stage and position it in the top left of the stage.

Then follow the rest of the instruction given before - put

on (release) {
emptyClip.loadMovie("alexdunford.com_2.swf");
}

onto the button you wish to use to load the .swf. Good luck

edit - whoops - I forgot to say, when you drag the clip to the stage, you have to select it and give it an instance name - this is very important as the script wont work without it.

Select emptyClip and find the properties panel, there will be a text field which says <Instance Name>, make sure to type "emptyClip" in here.

[strikefive01]

Really sorry, just one more question.

Once I have done the above, making the emptyClip, do I export that as a swf or htm?

Will my alexdunford.com_2.swf file load on top of this?

[onine]

Forget htm and exporting stuff it has nothing to do with this.

You should have one .swf with your animation section in it and one .swf with all your other, main, content in it. This code (and empty clip) goes in the main section - the main .swf - to load the other .swf into it.

[strikefive01]

Ohhhh, now I get you.

Thanks again, much appreciated!!

[onine]

no worries

check this if your still confused