loadMovie help
in [Flash]
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From: j2studio on 7 Apr 2006 14:41 ok I know there are a lot of posts regarding loadMovie - but I can't seem to get the info I need. Call me whatever. But here is what I'm looking to do. I am presenting a site on Monday in which the client home page will open in a DreamWeaver shell. In the middle of the page I would like to load a movie, which is essentially an advertisement, then at the end of the ad, I would like to use the loadMovie command to, well, load another movie. This particular movie will have a brief intro in which the viewer can then click on either of 5 buttons to load any one of 5 additional movies. All are relatively short, but I have read so much about the benefits of loadMovie as ooposed to forcing the viewer wait for large downloads. As if that wasn't enough, I want to name the initial movie that loads (the ad) "movie1", so that I can create different ads, publish them as "Movie 1" and replace the old ad so I don't need to go back in and republish anything according to the new ad's name. Does that make sense? Anyway, you can see examples here: http://www.j2studio.com/harc I am using Studio 8 on a Mac. Any help would be gtreatly appreciated. Thakns! JJ
From: martha_stewart on 7 Apr 2006 19:01 Hey j2studio, i am a bit confused, what you want to do is essentially this??...... Index.hml whick loads a flash Movie that is a advertisement.... after the advertisement has run it's course you want to load a different Flash movie that allows the users to choose between 5 different Movie Clips. Are you familiar with using containers? Here is a tutorial that shouls point you in the right direction: http://www.cbtcafe.com/flash/loadmovie/loadmovie.html Let me know if this helps, Martha Stewart
From: j2studio on 8 Apr 2006 06:02 Well that was sure easy! You must have had a lot of time to learn this stuff in the can huh? LOL It works great in Flash and test movie - but when I place the main SWF in my DW document, the movie after the "ad" doesn't load. I just get a blank screen. :frown;;) What is all this stuff I have read about methods, GET and POST? This tutorial didn't mention that at all. Is that because it was written for Flash 5? Hope you or someone can help.
From: joeq on 8 Apr 2006 09:38 i had a lot of problems with movies playing when i tested them but then not showing in the browser also... turned out, things just weren't in the proper directories.
From: j2studio on 8 Apr 2006 09:42
Good grief, after several hour here of sweating and searching the net and my library, I finaly figured the same thing out! I have now put all the SWF files in the same directory as the index.htm page. Is there a reason why they have to be in the same directory? I had always learned and practiced to keep things "neater" by creating directories for arrangement's sake. While I'm at it, and it now works, I'm seeing something I don't like, before each of the new movies play, there is a bit of a lull and a blank white space. Is there a way to get rid of it? Please check it out here. And thanks for your reply. JJ |