FN-FORUM: Flash mx problem - loading symbols rather than external swf's

date posted 6th February 2008 11:35

Hello - I hope someone can help me out with this

The situation is that I have been making a portfolio based site using flash
MX, there are several subsections of my portfolio, and each one has lets sa=
y
10 images

I have actually uploaded a test at

http://www.photofixer.co.uk/phoflash

However this is totally incomplete


I used to do this by using the 'loadmovie' command and load external swf's
for each image - which works fine, but takes a while to update every single
movie, so I want to make the portfolio so that I can update the whole thing
in one go

I don=B9t want the user to have to wait for the whole portfolio to load befor=
e
it plays so I placed the main images on frames 10,20,30,40 etc .... And the
action on each thumbnail was to say go to the relevant frame when pressed -
you can see from the uploaded sample, that this is not working properly
until the whole movie is loaded, if you click 'editorial' and then click th=
e
last thumbnail, the timeline advances in a linear fashion and displays
whatever image has loaded - I don=B9t understand why this is




Anyhow - the real question I have is - is it possible to load a symbol into
a movie clip rather than loading an external swf into a movie clip? And
therefore the user will only have to download the clips that they want to
view. Otherwise I will go back to loading external swf files



Apologies is I have not explained myself very well.