Pre-loading ALL/PART pages upon site ENTER!!

[whispers]

Is there a way to LOAD all/part content of my website at one time?....or load them in the background when a user enters the site?

I do not want to use the "LOOPING PRE-LOADER" type of effect....I just whant it to load in the background if possible...maye half during the intro..then the rest when he enters the HOME page and is looking at the layout deciding where to click.

Half of my content is on seperate external .swf files


Is there any help for this?


Also..looking for a way to have FLASH write to a text file on the server. I dont want to load a page (variable) and then amend it..I just want to be able to write to a text file..no ammend or anyting like that..just be able to have the user type note/messege into an INPUT text field...and hit send/enter/save and have the info saved/written to a text file I have been told I need to use PHP or CGI or ASP...but which one is easier?? I dont want to TOTALLY learn a whole new programming language..so an easy one (where I can ,for the most part, figure out what is going on) This cant be very hard can it?? Please let me know the code to use..where to put it or at least point me to a tutorial or something.. Thanks for all the help everybody

-whispers-

[monsterfx]

Try these tutorials from Macromedia:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...oad_levels.htm

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...admovie_f3.htm

-monster

[DrumDesigner]

Whispers,
You and I, my friend, have been constantly searching for this solution. I know EXACTLY what you want. You want the site to load even when it's idle (e.g. when someone is reading content on the homepage), that way when they click a link, they "finish" or bypass the preload process. I've read the tutorials that monsterfx posted and they get right to the heart of the matter.

I will now bounce ideas off you for feedback and maybe together we can get somewhere with this thing! Here's what I'm seeing....

Say we have a main timeline that loads in two separate swfs (a small example of a site).

Each of the swfs will be loaded into its own level with a stop action on the first frame with no content which will make it invisible. The "loadMovie" action will do this for each of the swfs in the maintimeline. This, I guess, is the definition of "parking" a movie. I've read this is better than using "_visible", because that causes a loaded movie's contents to flicker when the button is pressed, so I've given up on that technique all together.

Lets say we initiate a loadMovie for each swf in the first frame of the main timeline with each loadmovie command in a separate layer. I don't think you can have TWO loadMovie commands in one layer in the same frame (I could be wrong here)....

Now for my dilemma and more than likely one considered by Whipsers as well....

What if a person is done reading the homepage content and clicks a link while the loadMovie process is going on for the targeted swf?

I'm going to try to facilitate an example to explore a theory I have, but if anyone has anything to add, then cool!