Re: FN-FORUM flash 'load movie' problem

date posted 1st August 2001 15:51

Hi Rob,
Don't know if you want to hear this but when you click on Bolton you also
get taken to the London problem page (Mac IE5)
Had you considered this:
make a blank movie clip called 'holder'
add it to a new layer
add another new layer with the AS LoadMovie whatever.swf Target _root.holder
in the 'whatever.swf' add a blank frame on frame 1 with a stop action
Repeat as necessary and label as holder1,holder2 etc
This will effectively call the external swf before its needed so should help
with preload issues (I used this method for www.broadswithswords.co.uk and
its pretty damn speedy on a 56k despite many sections being 40-150k)
You also need some extra code on your menu to check the _currentFrame of all
other holders for the other sections e.g. if _currentFrame of holder >1
tellTarget _root.holder gotoandStop (1);
This will stop sections appearing over one another.

Hope this helps in some way even though it doesn't answer your original
problem

Steve


P.S. I sent this earlier but there has been no sign of it so apologies if it
appears twice.