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flash actionscript : Preload swf woes. Googled with no luck on a solution
Am I crazy? This should work right?
I have tried this http://www.bokelberg.de/actionscript/1.html and does not seem to work. Essentially I have a movie that will load an external swf. I need to preload this swf along with the main movie. The main timeline and the external swf are to be synced together. So when the external swf and the main movie load fully they will start to play at the same time. Unfortunately, I can not get this working correctly. Here is what I have. By the way. The external swf does not have a stop action in it. It is from a 3rd party software program. It does have audio, otherwise I would have imported it into the main movie. Any help greatly appreciated! Frame 1 loadMovieNum("myexternal.swf",1); stop(); Frame 2 (nothing here) Frame 3 // get the bytes loaded so far or 0 if we didn't start loading yet actBytes = _level1.getBytesLoaded() || 0; // get the total bytes to load or 100 if we didn't start loading yet totBytes = _level1.getBytesTotal() || 100; // calculate a percentage value of the bytes loaded percent = Math.round(actBytes * 100 / totBytes); // if there are more bytes to load if( totBytes - actBytes > 10){ // if you don't want a bar, delete the following line bar._xscale = percent; // go back to the loop gotoAndPlay(2) } -- Joey Durham www.ultraweaver.com - Tutorials/Downloads
if you can't control the external swf you'll need to ensure that your main
movie is loaded and ready when your external swf starts playing, which may be before the external swf is completely loaded. and this later fact may be problematic. in fact, if i were you, i'd decompile that external swf and put a blank keyframe on frame 1 and add a stop() to it. that would probably be the easiest and most satisfactory way of handling this. if you want, you can zip and upload that external file and i can see if i can decompile it for you.
Thanks for the reply!
I was able to get a stop action in the first frame of the external swf. Now I am having problems just getting it to preload . This is the code I have. What I need to have happen is the timeline of the main and external swf stop until the external files has been fully loaded. Once the external swf is loaded play both the main and external swf. Proving to be a big thorn in my side. : ( I have tried many methods to get this going. None that provide working examples of my situation though. Any help on this would be awesome. Frame 1 loadMovieNum("myexternal.swf",1); Frame 2 (nothing here) Frame 3 // get the bytes loaded so far or 0 if we didn't start loading yet actBytes = _level1.getBytesLoaded() || 0; // get the total bytes to load or 100 if we didn't start loading yet totBytes = _level1.getBytesTotal() || 100; // calculate a percentage value of the bytes loaded percent = Math.round(actBytes * 100 / totBytes); // if there are more bytes to load if( totBytes - actBytes > 10){ // if you don't want a bar, delete the following line bar._xscale = percent; // go back to the loop gotoAndPlay(2) } -- Joey Durham www.ultraweaver.com - Tutorials/Downloads www.geekforum.com - See Fireworks Section. Unbelievable! TMM Volunteer - Fireworks [quoted text, click to view] "kglad" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message news:cilrck$ns5$1@forums.macromedia.com... > if you can't control the external swf you'll need to ensure that your main > movie is loaded and ready when your external swf starts playing, which may be > before the external swf is completely loaded. and this later fact may be > problematic. > > in fact, if i were you, i'd decompile that external swf and put a blank > keyframe on frame 1 and add a stop() to it. that would probably be the easiest > and most satisfactory way of handling this. if you want, you can zip and > upload that external file and i can see if i can decompile it for you. >
Hi,
That's rather strange code you have there: actBytes = _level1.getBytesLoaded() || 0; totBytes = _level1.getBytesTotal() || 100; You're using a logical OR comparator. It will only return TRUE or FALSE (first of all), and only when getBytesLoaded or getBytesTotal are 1. Any other time they will return 0 (because 0 is logical FALSE and 100 decimal's lower bit is also logical FALSE). Also, your percentage calculation is not correct. From what I can tell, this shouldn't work at all. Get rid of those logical ORs... Do something like this: // get the bytes loaded so far or 0 if we didn't start loading yet actBytes = _level1.getBytesLoaded(); // get the total bytes to load or 100 if we didn't start loading yet totBytes = _level1.getBytesTotal(); // calculate a percentage value of the bytes loaded percent = Math.round((actBytes/totBytes)*100); // if there are more bytes to load if( percent<100 ){ // if you don't want a bar, delete the following line bar._xscale = percent; // go back to the loop gotoAndPlay(2) } Regards, Patrick ----------------------------------------------------- www.baynewmedia.com IRC (www.dal.net) -> #baynewmedia ----------------------------------------------------- [quoted text, click to view] Joey D wrote:
>Am I crazy? This should work right? > >I have tried this http://www.bokelberg.de/actionscript/1.html and does not >seem to work. > >Essentially I have a movie that will load an external swf. I need to preload >this swf along with the main movie. The main timeline and the external swf >are to be synced together. So when the external swf and the main movie load >fully they will start to play at the same time. > >Unfortunately, I can not get this working correctly. Here is what I have. >By the way. The external swf does not have a stop action in it. It is from a >3rd party software program. It does have audio, otherwise I would have >imported it into the main movie. Any help greatly appreciated! > >Frame 1 >loadMovieNum("myexternal.swf",1); >stop(); > >Frame 2 >(nothing here) > >Frame 3 >// get the bytes loaded so far or 0 if we didn't start loading yet >actBytes = _level1.getBytesLoaded() || 0; >// get the total bytes to load or 100 if we didn't start loading yet >totBytes = _level1.getBytesTotal() || 100; >// calculate a percentage value of the bytes loaded >percent = Math.round(actBytes * 100 / totBytes); > >// if there are more bytes to load >if( totBytes - actBytes > 10){ > // if you don't want a bar, delete the following line > bar._xscale = percent; > // go back to the loop > gotoAndPlay(2) >} > >
Thanks Patrick!
Essentially I have a movie that will load an external swf. I need to preload this swf along with the main movie. The main timeline and the external swf are to be synced together. So when the external swf and the main movie load fully they will start to play at the same time. The main movie has a timeline that is just as long as the external clip. They should play at the same time when loading of the external swf is done. The main movie is not heavy in file size at all. It is the external swf that is and can be up to a couple of megs. Does this make since? Again thanks for stepping in with some direction. -- Joey Durham www.ultraweaver.com - Tutorials/Downloads [quoted text, click to view] "Patrick Bay" <patrickbay@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:cinaq6$gim$1@forums.macromedia.com... > Hi, > > That's rather strange code you have there: > > actBytes = _level1.getBytesLoaded() || 0; > > totBytes = _level1.getBytesTotal() || 100; > > You're using a logical OR comparator. It will only return TRUE or FALSE > (first of all), and only when getBytesLoaded or getBytesTotal are 1. Any > other time they will return 0 (because 0 is logical FALSE and 100 > decimal's lower bit is also logical FALSE). Also, your percentage > calculation is not correct. From what I can tell, this shouldn't work at > all. Get rid of those logical ORs... > > Do something like this: > > // get the bytes loaded so far or 0 if we didn't start loading yet > actBytes = _level1.getBytesLoaded(); > // get the total bytes to load or 100 if we didn't start loading yet > totBytes = _level1.getBytesTotal(); > // calculate a percentage value of the bytes loaded > percent = Math.round((actBytes/totBytes)*100); > > > // if there are more bytes to load > if( percent<100 ){ > // if you don't want a bar, delete the following line > bar._xscale = percent; > // go back to the loop > gotoAndPlay(2) > } > > Regards, > Patrick > > ----------------------------------------------------- > www.baynewmedia.com > > IRC (www.dal.net) -> #baynewmedia > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > > Joey D wrote: > > >Am I crazy? This should work right? > > > >I have tried this http://www.bokelberg.de/actionscript/1.html and does not > >seem to work. > > > >Essentially I have a movie that will load an external swf. I need to preload > >this swf along with the main movie. The main timeline and the external swf > >are to be synced together. So when the external swf and the main movie load > >fully they will start to play at the same time. > > > >Unfortunately, I can not get this working correctly. Here is what I have. > >By the way. The external swf does not have a stop action in it. It is from a > >3rd party software program. It does have audio, otherwise I would have > >imported it into the main movie. Any help greatly appreciated! > > > >Frame 1 > >loadMovieNum("myexternal.swf",1); > >stop(); > > > >Frame 2 > >(nothing here) > > > >Frame 3 > >// get the bytes loaded so far or 0 if we didn't start loading yet > >actBytes = _level1.getBytesLoaded() || 0; > >// get the total bytes to load or 100 if we didn't start loading yet > >totBytes = _level1.getBytesTotal() || 100; > >// calculate a percentage value of the bytes loaded > >percent = Math.round(actBytes * 100 / totBytes); > > > >// if there are more bytes to load > >if( totBytes - actBytes > 10){ > > // if you don't want a bar, delete the following line > > bar._xscale = percent; > > // go back to the loop > > gotoAndPlay(2) > >} > > > > > >
in frame 1 of your _level0 movie put the following code and whatever preload
stuff you want (like bar): loadMovieNum("myexternal.swf", 1); stop(); preloadI = setInterval(preloadF, 100); function preloadF() { loaded = _level1.getBytesLoaded()+_level0.getBytesLoaded(); total = _level1.getBytesTotal()+_level0.getBytesLoaded(); if (loaded>=total) { clearInterval(preloadI); //do whatever. ur movies r loaded. } else { percent = Math.round(loaded*100/total); bar._xscale = percent; } }
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