loading other scenes in the background?

[Bartman]

Hi

I'm creating a simple menu that has links to 3 video files, with a broadband &
dialup version of each video....is there a way to start preloading those swf
files while the menu is running? They're long video clips and take quite a
while to load, even after being compressed and exported as a flv file

or would it just be better to create a preloader on each swf file so the user
knows that the page didn't die.... I haven't really worked with video in flash
before, so I'm not quite sure on how to create a preloader for movie clip that
is almost 5000 frames long. Thanks for your help

[CesareRocchi]

[q][i]Originally posted by: Bartman[/i
Hi
I'm creating a simple menu that has links to 3 video files, with a broadband &
dialup version of each video....is there a way to start preloading those swf
files while the menu is running? They're long video clips and take quite a
while to load, even after being compressed and exported as a flv file
or would it just be better to create a preloader on each swf file so the user
knows that the page didn't die.... I haven't really worked with video in flash
before, so I'm not quite sure on how to create a preloader for movie clip that
is almost 5000 frames long. Thanks for your help.[/q

Yes you can, size doesn't matter. You can load your movies in a container, but
maybe after the menu has been loaded
If you don't want videos to be displayed while loading hide the holder (_alpha
= 0). If you want to load them at the same time you need as many holder as the
number of movies

[Bartman]

thanks cesare, can you explain a little more about these 'holders'? I haven't ever used that, and could use a little help...thanks.

[CesareRocchi]

"holder" is not a technical term, something built in Flash. Holder ares movie
clips
every movie clip is potentially a holder, in which you can load stuff (jpgs,
sounds, other swfs,...) like

my_mc.loadMovie("test.jpg")

After loading if you move 'my_mc' you move the image 'test.jpg'
if you scale it down, the image scales down,..

HTH

-c