Loader timing help 1

[Firehawk734]

Hey,

I have an external movie that is loaded by a main movie. Its loaded to a level on top, and then positioned appropriately.

In that external movie, i have a preloader scene (oldnewbie, u helped me out with this preloader) and then a main scene. In the main scene, theres a movie clip on the root timeline which contains a slide show.

I want the slide show to load itself after the movie has been playing, rather than have it load initially from the preloader. Therefore, what I haev is 2 preloaders essentially, the main one which is on its own scene, and then i have another preloader that is on the root timeline in the main scene, and I have the code...

if (this.pictureClip.getBytesloaded >= this.pictureClip.getBytesTotal){
gotoAndPlay(13);

that is in frame 11 on the main timeline in the main scene. Then in the 12th frame i have..
gotoAndPlay(11); so that it repeats until it loads the picture clip.

I dont think this is working though. What is wrong with it?

You can view it at

http://www.geocities.com/deltazetawsu

click the "sisterhood" button to see it.

I can email the FLA if you need it. Thanks

 

[oldnewbie]

Your link doesn't work! Regards,

 

[Firehawk734]

thats cuase for some reason it kept the "click" part there.

http://www.geocities.com/deltazetawsu

 

[oldnewbie]

Can you upload the .flas and e-mail me a link to them?
Hit my handle for my e-mail.

No promises... I have a lot of work to do, and not much free time, these days! Regards,

 

[Firehawk734]

http://www.geocities.com/deltazetawsu/fla.html

there ya go thanks

 

[Firehawk734]

PLEASE HELP OLDNEWB HEH OR ANYONE ELSE

 

[oldnewbie]

Having a look at it now! Just trying to understand your problem! Regards,

 

[oldnewbie]

Dont quite get it!

...I want the slide show to load itself after the movie has been playing, rather than have it load initially from the preloader...

Of what movie are you talking about in the above?

The pictureClip is a movie clip in the sisterhood.swf. It's not an external movie... It's loading in this main movie preloader because it is part of this sisterhood movie. Why would you not want it to load this way? Regards,

 

[Firehawk734]

For looks. How do you get things to load then after the fact of having a preloader at the start of a movie?

I see this alot with 2advanced.com, um... pittsburghpengquins.com um... alot of stuff. The movie comes up and then there are individual areas taht load or APPEAR tobe loading after words.


The "pictureClip" is a clip in the swf, i know this. How do you get it to load on its own??? Or do people just put "loading" on certain areas for "LOOKS"?

 

[oldnewbie]

Well it can be partly faked just for looks, but could also be all loaded external movies, actually loading one after the other, but in that sense not movie clips integrated in the main movie itself.

Have a look at Bubu's site (

http://www.inwww.ltd.uk/),

that's part fake and true preloading. But notice that when you hit one menu item for the first time, it displays "loading", because it is actually downloading that movie. But if you look at another item, and come back to the previous item, then the wipe transition will still occur, but the "loading" word will not appear, because the movie is already in the user's cache, and is in fact not re-loaded!
Also note that hitting the same selection twice in a row, will not re-start that item from the beginning, as it does when hitting one of your buttons. Regards,

 

[Firehawk734]

Well,

I am not an advanced user, and thus, I do not know how to set it to where once you hit a button, it does NOT reload the movie. I would imagine disabling the button somehow???

Can you explain???

I do get what you are saying about the mc stuff though. I will be askin soon how to do a "wipeout" technique. Do you have some kind of link for that??? I shall give u many stars my friend, oh yes. hehe

 

[oldnewbie]

Yes, it would sort of be disabling the button, which could also be applied at the beginning, so that the user can't really make a selection, before your home movie as loaded. For the moment, as on Bubu's site, if I remember correctly, you can make another selection before the home movie has loaded and played.
The technique envolved would be different in Flash 5 than it MX. Which are you using?

As for the wipe thing... I have helped Bubu(Dragos) implement that on his site, and if I agrees, I could allways put something together with a few of his files, and send you that to show you how it's done. But he would first have to agree to this.

Off to work on my regular job... May catch you later tonight! Regards,

 

[Firehawk734]

I use MX BABY. OK thanks alot keep helpin

 

[Firehawk734]

Any chance on helpin me out with that "wipeout" method?

 

[bubu]

Hello guys!

Oldnewbie:
Please don't send any of my files...i will be here and explain anything to anybody but please don't send the files...i work in a company and if somebody knows that the files with the site are going here and there i think that i have to look for another job...
If somebody want to know how i have done the site (any detail) i will explain everything.
I don't want you to be angry on me...because you have helped me a lot...i wouldn't have made this site if you wasn't there!!!...and i want to thank you a lot one more time!!!

Firehawk:
You have a thread with the wipeout technique...i will give the explinations there...but you know that you have to give Oldnewbie a star for that...he made it up.
Regards,
Dragos.

http://www.inwww.ltd.uk