Loading Times

[meeesta webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hello.

I've got a projector that I'm burning to CD, but a problem I have is the loading speed. There seems to be a long delay before anything appears on screen, but even when it does finally appear some of the elements still haven't loaded in.

I tried removing elements until I was back to the basic elements and put a loading page in (using 'preLoadMember') to store the most urgent elements in the timeline.

But this didn't work as one of the first requirements is a sound file that announces the CD title. And a lot of the time the first word gets chopped.

Is there anyway of creating a loop in the timeline to make sure all elements up to say frame 100 have been correctly loaded?

Any help would be great, many thanks for you time.
Meeesta.

[Rob Dillon]

Yes, preload and preloadMember don't hold the playback head. They just
control the process of loading assets into memory. Use the loaded of
member property to test for loading.

You could set up a loop on a few frames, put your preload command(s) in
a frame before the loop, and then test for the loaded value of the last
member to be loaded in the last frame of the loop. If it's not loaded,
then loop, if it is loaded then move to a new frame.

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[Forever December webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi,

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[GilesW webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

try, (if you have any which you would) making all the button graphics from one sympol, instead of lets say 5 different images. Also, any bitmaps which youve imported make them lessa quality, used shared symbols, be careful with sound, cos it slows it down,m same with movies, optimise you images - this will help the views cpu handle the site, so by delting som of the lins on a bitmap with realy quickin it up, you can also get cool meffect with that, thats about al i can think of
hope it helps