1000 PAGE PLUS FLASH SITE

[Karen Milacic]

I am in the process of creating an enormous on-line magazine/directory which is
well on the way to becoming 1000 pages. Is it possible to do it all in one
Flash movie or should I seperate it out over several smaller ones. If so, how
big should each one be? How to I connect between movies - is it simply the get
URL command and type in the .swf file name. If it is how can I test that this
works as the test movie command only opens a blank netscape/explorer page
saying it cannot find the .swf file on the server.
The site contains on-line booking forms and shopping trollies.

[Dujo]

you can have pages in database.. and load them into one SWF... like i d
on [url]www.geekstinkbreath.ne[/url]


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[noodle doodle]

sorry to be ot - how did you modify the right-click menu options?
Can you do that with Flash 6 ?

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[malspach]

at 1000+ pages, it would take forever for anyone to see it, you should design
it like a N-teir application (like java), so what you do is this, lets say you
make a preloader, and name it index.swf, and then attach this code to the
preloader:

loadMovieNum("main.swf", 1);
_root.createTextField("tbox", 1, Stage.width/2, Stage.height/2, 60, 30);
preloadI = setInterval(preloadF, 100);
function preloadF() {
loaded = Math.round(100*_level1.getBytesLoaded()/_level1.getBytesTotal());
tbox.text = loaded+"% Loaded";
if (loaded>=100) {
tbox.removeTextField();
clearInterval(preloadI);
}
}

my main.swf is an interface on the left hand side, my preloader was offset
from center 170 pixels so it would show the interface easily, and then the
proloader was running all the time in the back ground when other pages were
loaded, make sure all your files are the same size, it makes it easier that
way, you dont have to worry about things loading at 0,0 , then on my interface,
it loads up the first page like this:

loadMovieNum ("homepage.swf", 2) just so that they dont see the preloader
until they click on a button, but then you make your buttons on the interface
file, and on each, like my "home button" for example has this attached to it in
actionscript:

on (press) {
unloadMovieNum(2)
loadMovieNum("homepage.swf", 2);
}

the purpose of the unload is that flash can only load 1 movie per level, so
you remove the movie, then load another, and while it does this, you will see
the proloader running in the background. if you would care to see what i have
done, and how fast each pae loads you can look here:

[url]http://users.1freeworld.net/~ac1/index.swf[/url]

my problem is i am having trouble loading the text into the boxes, but if it
were done this way, i could put as many pages on as i wanted with otu slowing
the user down too much, and they dont have to wait long to see something (the
preloader is only 6K)

[Ed Massey]

Yes you can write the page all in flash and you can use one flash file.

Presumably the pages will fall into several different formats, ie all the
pages wont have a unique layout, instead they will fall into one of say 10
different layout structures. You can develop sub-structures as well for
minor differences in layout format within a particular layout structure.
You could write the site to accept content data from a database that will be
loaded into different template pages.

The first thing you need to do is to build an expandable dynamic navigation
architecture with the emphasis on simplicity.
You will need good actionScript skills too :)

Good Luck

Ed

"Karen Milacic" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I am in the process of creating an enormous on-line magazine/directory

which is

> well on the way to becoming 1000 pages. Is it possible to do it all in one
> Flash movie or should I seperate it out over several smaller ones. If so,

how

> big should each one be? How to I connect between movies - is it simply the

get

> URL command and type in the .swf file name. If it is how can I test that

this

> works as the test movie command only opens a blank netscape/explorer page
> saying it cannot find the .swf file on the server.
> The site contains on-line booking forms and shopping trollies.
>