flash (macromedia): Hi, I'm a somewhat green Flash MX developer - I have a site at

www.darrellraby.com

that has 2 scenes - the first scene is an introduction, and the 2nd scene is the interactive site. I've noticed that if I click the "SKIP" button that I put in the introduction and it goes to the 2nd scene, the site has to spend about 30 seconds loading (with a high-speed internet connection), which is fine, because I have some large sound files in the .swf file. However, for some reason, if you wait the 30 seconds for the loading to finish, the site gets "stuck" - like, pictures fail to appear, and the interactive part of the site fails.

If you then click the "refresh" button and skip the introduction again, everything is cool, and the site works completely.

Any idea why a site would get "stuck" like this?

Thanks very much,
-Darrell



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www.darrellraby.com

I`m on high speed connection and waited over 2 minutes before giving up on it loading.
I think you need a preloader but have you also considered streaming the sound?


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Thank you - your suggestions make a good deal of sense - I'll see if I can fix the problem by putting the skip option in the HTML instead of the flash movie content.

Thanks again,
-Darrell

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Skip usually is done in html not flash , and the flash is usually made of two separate swf , an intro and main content.
You can't just skip movie if it did not yet cache , your action try to allocate frame which have not yet loaded.
SO it fails . But the movie continue to work . Flash is a streaming technology and once open will load till it is entirely
cached . So when you test your movie on reload , it is all there and the skip can finally find its target.
Make two parts and skip in html would really be the propel way . Otherwise it does not make sense because whether
user want to skip or not, still all must load your whole movie so it will be time consuming. Skip loosing its purpose than...



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