Flash :: Loading Time

Loading Bar That Shows Loading Time Of HTML Page Not The Movie
Hi,

I have a flash intro that I'm using for my site, but I would like to (if possible), have an intro HTML page that uses JS to pre-load the images on the site and show my loading FLASH movie while the page pre-loads.

I would like the flash movie's loading bar to reflect the images that are pre-loaded on the HTML page.

Question-1: Is that possible to do?

Question-2: Where do I start? I don't even have a loading bar. All I want is just a simple rectangle that has a bar inside that moves from left to right indicating that the page is almost finished loaded. Then when the page has pre-loaded the images I need it to re-direct to the main page.

Can someone help me accomplish this, or tell me where to find out how to do this.

Thanks!

NATE

design@spyderix-designz.com
http://www.spyderix-designz.com

Loading 2 MCs At The Same Time
Im having some trouble doing something i thought would be simple. I think it might be a flash MX glitch or soemthing.

I have this preloader that works fine when the Main movie loads and when i load ONE movie clip. BUT when i have that Movie clip loaded and i load another Movie Clip using the loadMovie method it will not preload. It waits till the whole movie has been loaded then it shows the contents.

This only happens when i load a MC when one is aready loaded. Anyone kno what i am doing wrong or if its a glitch or not or how i can get around it. Thanks.

Loading Time
can anyone help me impove the loading time, it is rediculous...

www.crystalsensations.com

Loading Time
I just have a quick question about the loading time given the amount of bandwidth I have. I have a 3.2mb *.swf and when I load it from my host it loads really slow. I just bought an extra 1gb of bandwidth to help speed it up but it hasn't done much. How much bandwidth do you think is neccessary to load the 3.2mb .swf at a reasonable amount of time? Is it bandwidth that will speed the loading process up? What do you guys suggest? Is the 3.2mb .swf unreasonable in size; are there other sites that load the swf fine that have a big flash file? Thanks and sorry for all the questions...I'm new to this!!

I can attach the file if you want.

sly

Loading Time Cut Down
I made a site for a record label and it is taking for ever to load. It can be seen Here It consists of several scenes: The loading screen, The intro movie, the menu, and then individual scenes for each band.

The main problem is that each band site has a differnt MP3 file for each band on it. This leads to very steep loading times. I tried making a seperate movie file that would load at the bottom of the page. Made up of 2 scenes a short loading bar for the mp3 and then it would turn in to the song title and play/stop buttons. Im having trouble importing it using Loadmovie()

Can anyone help me out? I'm realitivly new to flash design and am not too keen on various loading methods

Loading All Swf's At The Same Time...
hello;

what i want to do is;

while people are surfing at my main page; other section's swf's load at the background...
so nobody realizes that some swf's are loading...

is it possible?

thanks for the replies...

Loading At The Same Time
Hi all
can anyone tell me

How to make more than one flash file start loading on the same time (on same page) ?

Please help me
thanks all

Loading Time
Hello,

I just put up a new sight www.paulmanlove.com, and think I have done everything I can to help with the loading time. This is a portfolio site, so there is a lot of photography. The photos are about 7"x7"(at 72dpi). I would like to add more content although I am concerned about adding to the loading time. With additional content should I consider a "getURL" script with it's own pre-loader to help with this problem? Any ideas?

Thanks for all the help,

Paul Manlove

Loading Time?
Hi, I'm making a server time based application. It's supposed to load an image based on time. There's also a date issue her, but that's working allright.

I'm using PHP to load the correct date (day,month, year) and this works properly.
My problem is that I also need the hour, and I can't convert this value to a Number????

I can trace the value, and this works fine, but when I try to use the value in other functions, it shows as NaN?

Why? And how can convert this value to a Number?
Please help me out with this one!

Code:
var scriptPath:String = "http://www.allworthydesign.no/php/gettime.php";
var myLoadVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
myLoadVars.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
_root.thisMonth = Number(this.theMonth);
_root.thisDay = Number(this.theDay);
_root.thisHour = Number(this.theHour);
trace("Server Day: "+thisDay);
trace("Server Month: "+thisMonth);
trace("Server Hour: "+thisHour);
} else {
trace("Server timed out.");
}
};
myLoadVars.load(scriptPath);

PHP Code:

<?php
print '&theYear=' . date('Y');
print '&theDay=' . date('j');
print '&theMonth=' . date('n');
print '&theHour=' .date('G');
?>

Loading More Than 1 Url At A Time
i am loading data from 2 different urls. Actionscript seems to have an issue with doing this at the same time. Is there a work around for this issue?

Loading Time
Hello Flash Users...
I am new at learning or teaching myself flash and I have a question.
I have a Flash Documents Which I converted to Html (F12) to publish
I opened them in DreamWeaver and saved them there (Each there own html page)
Now when I upload these html files to my server and view them on the web, it is taking FOREVER to view them, The first page is taking waaaay to long to open.
Now what is the standard File size and how can I have my html Flash Files Open up quicker.
My File size is currently 1.02KB for the index.html

Just to let you know if this helps...I built the whole page in flash and linked it to the next page and pages thereafter with actionscript. (so eah page is a seperate html now)

Any Help is Greatly appreciated THANKS A MILLION !!!

Loading Time Help
Can someone please help or give suggestions on what they think i can do to make this page load faster...

www.lifelineusa.com

Loading Time
What is an acceptable loading time and file size of the .swf if someone is still using 56k

Loading Time
Dear All,

I have created a Flash intro for a web site which contains 2 scenes - the preloader & the actual intro movie. The whole movie comes in at 224kb. The movie contains sounds.

I am having the problem of it taking a long time to load up into the browser using a 56k modem. Is there any suggestions that could be made in increasing the load time of the movie?

Regards,

Sati.

Time Delay Without Loading
Hi,

I'm trying to put a pause in the first frame of a flash movie, this pause to last around 9 seconds. During those 9 seconds I don't want the rest of the flash ani to load. After the 9 seconds are up, the movie goes to the next frame and loads it. Is there a way to do this?

I've been to this webpage regarding time delay, but I can't get the thing working on mine.... If anyone knows that this script does what I want, let me know and I'll waste more time on it

http://www.flashbible.com/Members/Ac...Play/Delay.htm

Thank you

Loading Quick Time
Hi is ther a wey to import a quick time movie into a flash movie

Loading Time Question.
hi, just wondering if i load all 14 movies each into a different empty movieclip on level 0, will it slow down the loading time for the main movie on level 0. do i still need to make a preloading scene for those 14 movie?

Long Loading Time
All,

I have my site built entirely on Flash 5, the *.swf file is 1734kb. On a
highbadwith connection it takes about 20 secs to load, on dial up it takes
about 10mins. There is nothing I can take away from the file so the size is
not negotiable. My understanding of Flash is that it does not have to load
the whole movie first, it would stream, so that it won't take long to load.
But my current site stays on the load page (by the way my bar never shows
up) for 10 mins, then it takes another 3-4 mins before the sound comes on
(seperate *.swf file 516kb).
I have already started to break up the different scenes and make them
individual movies, which will load using "loadMovieNum" action, is this the
best way to do this? If so, is there a way to keep the main movie playing
and have the other movies open up in another window?
Thanks in Advance!!
by the way the site is http://www.mickeyratz.com/flash.htm

Loading Sounds One At A Time
I'm publishing my first piece with a LOT of small sounds. I was wondering, when does a Flash movie actually load the sounds on the user's side? I want to know what command I can use to load say 1 sound every frame during a little preloader. Is it the "new Sound()" command? I'm guessing this will be an easy one for someone to answer. All help is appreciated- thanx.

Dust

Loading Variables The First Time
Hello!

I'm having some trouble loading variables from a text file. The code I'm using is:

loadVariablesNum ("journal.txt", 0);

I've created a mini-preloader to try and insure that the file is completely loaded before being displayed, and it's set to say "Loading" while the variables are pulled from the text file until the very last variable, textLoaded, rolls around.

Now, when I test the file in Flash, it runs just fine. But when I stick it on the net, the file doesn't load the first time. It just says "Loading", but the file never appears. Then, if you click refresh on the browser, it pops up just fine the second time around.

If you'd like to take a look, go here:

http://www.perpetuality.ca

I've hunted for an answer to this one, but I can't seem to find anything that's clear on what I'm experiencing.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

CR

Loading MP3's Ahead Of Time In MX
I have a small MP3 player on my website to play my friend's band music. There are 8 mp3 files that are all approx 1-3 mb in size.

Problem is, that the hosting service I am using is very slow. If I stream the music, it plays broken.

If I load them as wanted, their initial load sometimes takes like 5 mins.

I was wondering if I could first thing on my site, start loading each of the mp3's into a sound object. Like start the loading before even my preloader, so that maybe some of them will load before the user even gets to using them.

Would loading 8 mp3's into 8 sound objects be unreasonable? Would it take too much bandwidth? I'm not sure how that all works.

You can checkout what I am using at my link below and try the load time on the music.

Thanks

Page Loading Time
I have been testing an early version of my site on different computers where I can and it went very slow on the 56k connection. I would normally expect this but I didn't think I had very much at all to load.

My .swf and the .htm file that need to be loaded come to a combined total of about 67KB. The .fla file is 3.5MB but this shouldnt affect it should it?

I was wondering if there was something wrong with the computer I was using (I am hoping), so could someone on a 56K modem test this link and tell me if it takes way too long to load. If so I will have to use a preloader bar.

Here's the link: http://icarus.mastahuk.com/ (I am of course referring to the popup page from this link)

Time Left In Loading?
does anyone know how to add a "time-left" code to the preloader i have here? for example, the preloader is loading and it shows how much time theres left to download, like 5 secs maybe. thanks alot!

First Time Loading Problem
everytime i run this movie, the first time it runs it buggers up once you click on a button. It partly loads, and then stops.
However once you refresh the page, the whole thing works great!

dont understand, please someone help.....

this is a S.O.S...

Loading A Section At A Time
i am creating a flash website which users the same "zooming" navigation system as sofake.com.. (if u aren't familiar with this site it may be a good idea to take a look coz im not too great at explaining it)

my site consists of 6 pages or panels, however not all are visisble at the same time. For example from the 1st page/panel, panels 2 and 3 are visible within it, but no more until you navigate further into the site, as in from panel 2, 3 and 4 are visible etc etc

so i have created a preloader to load the site in whole before it is revealed to the user - however, my lecturer has suggested that it would be better to have just say the first 2 or 3 panels load and be revealed to the user so while they explore these first few pages, the others are loading in the background, thus reducing the initial time the user has to wait before they see anything - if that makes any sense?!?! told u i was bad at explainin things

basically i want things to load a section at a time and reveal themselves as they r fully loaded...

Loading Time Reduction?
I know, I have been posting a lot lately, but I have the time, and I have a lotta q's.

How do I cut down on my preload times?
I have a movie that is merely 16 seconds long, but it takes it over 100 seconds to preload.... It does have a music MP3 clip, I've been testing it in Flash cuz its still in the works... but can I chomp down on the loading time any or will users have to bear...

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEADLINE TIME-Please Help With Loading
Hi

I have a movie with a small preloader animation.

I am trying to script it so that the animation plays depending on how much of the movie has been loaded so far.

So, after 1/5 of the animation I have this script: -
if (_root.getBytesLoaded() == _root.getBytesTotal()*0.2) {
nextFrame();
} else {
prevFrame();
}

After 2/5 of the animation I have this script: -
if (_root.getBytesLoaded() == _root.getBytesTotal()*0.4) {
nextFrame();
} else {
prevFrame();
}

etc...

It is not working, and my deadline is really close!
I know there are more efficient ways of scripting it, but it is deadline time, please help!!!

Thanks

Dynamic JPG : Not Loading 1st Time
Hi. I haven't posted here in a long time because I haven't been in Flash much, but I just got a new job as a Flash developer. I was wondering if someone could help me with a problem I can't seem to fix.

I have a movie dynamically loading images into an empty movieclip. I've one this a few times and it's always worked perfectly. But for some reason when I click a button to load an image, it won't do it the first time. When I click another button or that same button again, it works.

I am going to post the FLA and would greatly appreciate it if someone slapped me in the face to show me the stupid mistake I am making.

Just to give you a heads up...A button calls the frame "loadImage" and sends a variable to it. The two buttons are in portfolio/portfolio_buttons/

Here is the FLA : www.formandfunctionstudios.com/index.fla

Thanks

Loading Swf After Certain Amount Of Time
Hi,

I've created flash movie that loads a new swf after the current swf plays through. However, i'd like for the new swfs to load say... 30 seconds after the current one finishes, rather than immediately.

Rather than adding a long set of frames to each swf, I'm assuming there is a better way with actionscript to control how often/frequently a swf loads.

Any suggestions?

cheers!
Jen

Time Loading Thing
I need help… offcourse I aint a guru like u ppl,

I have a presentation which contains the following structure. First I have the main.swf file which checks the system time if the times from 6pm till 5am it should load night.swf else load day.swf

I know its simple but I need it fast. Thanx for your help as I m a new member.

Length Of Loading Time
So I have my site all set so that it runs from one interface with a movie clip layer that loads all the external content. The problem I'm having is the load time when switching from one content aspect to another. Is there a way to limit this? Can I add a little icon that will display until the clip is completely loaded? If the second one, how? Thanks.

Loading Jpgs One At A Time?
Ok,

I am duplicating buttons and then loading pics into them. As it stands at the moment, I am duplicating a button (n number of times) and at the same time loading the images into the buttons...

... but what I want is for the buttons to duplicate, then load one pic at a time into the duplicated buttons rather than the images load straight into all of them. Once one pic has fully loaded it goes onto the next and so on...

Do I need to mess around with the preloader and add a few variables in to achieve this or do I need to just do a loop using while() or for()?

Anyone got any ideas?

__________________

?'s About Reducing Loading Time
First, I would appreciate any suggestions on how to shorten the loading period of a flash file.

Questions:
1) I was wondering if it is possible to begin loading a flash when one enters a web page (Note: the flash is not on this page but another), and if so, how?

2) I have heard it is possible to load in between scenes. However, if the second scene is considerably larger than the first, is there a delay period between the scenes. If there isn't, could somebody explain how to achieve this process.

3) Is there a way to compress a swf file, so that the flash loads faster?

Loading Two Movie At The Same Time.
I have two swf file and I load the them at the same time in main.swf.
but both the movie get load at different time because of the dissimilar size and the movie which loaded 1st play 1st and vise versa. I want the both the movie to complete its loading and play at once. is there is any way?

Loading Time In Flash?
Hi

I have a really stupid question regarding Flash MX 6

When the site is live online and some one types in the url to view the site, dose Flash load every thing that is saved in the library of that fla, or dose it only load what it on the main timeline and wait for the other things in the library to be called as and when they are needed when a button is pressed or via an action on a frame?

Loading Levels At The Same Time
Hello,

-http://www.id-design.be

I use my site as a portfolio. I was surprised to hear that it didn't work properly

It seems to be that if you clikked on buttons in the graphic that there wasn"t anything to see (normally a picture in the window).
I've used about 20 levels which are loaded from the start (default.swf) and at the same time. Each level is not bigger than 100kb and is only needed when you press on a button in the graphic.
I don't see the problem in here except that the levels are loaded at the same time maybe.

On my computer it works fine, so it's hard to see what's causing this. If someone has an idea of what is wrong and how I can resolve this...

Thanks,

digigirl05

Loading Time-problems...
hi there,
I have a bit of an odd problem..
I have created a dynamic flashmovie, that pulls images in externally ( "load movie" loads img into empty movie-clip).
It all works fine on mac, as well in Mozilla on PC but in Internet explorer on pc the loading time seems to be double.
Now I know flash should behave the same for mac/pc/Internet explorer or any other browser...but somehow it doesnt...
I dont know if internet explorer reads the external images into flash differently and I need to add a little line of code into my html or ...????

I am defenetly pretty confused here...
If you wonna have a look:
its www.edvere.com/indexed.htm

thanks ,
sandra

MX - Loading Jpg And Html At Same Time
I am not sure how to do this since I am no good at actionscript yet. I have included a screenshot below so you can see exactly what I am looking to do.

Basically I need a flash movie that loads a .jpg file (upper area of screenshot---reddish area) and an HTML file (lower area of screenshot---grey area) at the same time from an external .txt OR xml file. The trick here is then after about 10-15 seconds I need the jpg. to swap out with the NEXT .jpg and at the same time load a NEW HTML file to go with the .jpg. Basically a slideshow with a "news" area below each pic...and I need that area to be HTML so I can define links when needed. I would like to be able to rotate as many "stories" as I need by just changing a few variables. Also, on the very bottom of the screenshot, you will see control buttons. That way a viewer can stop the news story headline if they need to or go back or go forward with the stories. Also I would need a preloader for each jpg (movieclip)??? Right???

Anyhow, I have no idea where to begin, and I cannot find a tutorial that covers this. I tried using the "easy slideshow component" but it still does not have what I am looking for. Can someone throw together a simple tutorial .fla for me with just the placeholders and the scripting along with notes of what to modify and how to write the txt or xml file. I would really appreciate the effort and I would really like to learn what I am doing instead of just throwing a component on the stage.

Here is the screenshot:

peace out,
daddy

Site Not Loading On First Time
I have a site where I load various swf files into the main timeline. On everyone on of them, the files will not view, or will only view partially the first time I click the button to load them. If I click the button again, the files load fine. I realized that the second time I am clicking the button the browser is using the temp copy of file that it downloaded becuase if I delete my temp files the problem happens again.

I think this has something to do with the swf files on my server, but I can't figure it out.

Loading Different SWF's Depending On The Time
I'm trying to get my home page to load certain swf's depending on the time it is. How would I do that? So it's it's between 3PM and 7PM it will load home2.swf for example.

Loading SWFs One At A Time
I have a portfolio site divided into four sections. I've set it up so that each section is a separate swf containing multiple portfolio samples. Problem is the swfs are taking too long to load.

As a remedy I'd like to make each individual sample a separate swf so it loads one sample at a time, as opposed to one full section at a time.

What is the code for this??

Loading Swf Files One At A Time
Hi,

Can somebody provide me a script like this
When the main file is loaded:
1.first load swffile1 into holder1
>when this file is preloaded
2. load swffile3 into holder2
>when this file is preloaded
3.load swffile3 into holder3
>when this file is preloaded
...

Hope somebody can provide me that kind of script. Big thx in advance

Loading Time Speed?
Hi,
What ways can I speed up loading time for my flash swf files in a browser? However, I do not want the quality of the flash to decrease. Thanx!

Loading Time Speed?
Hi,
Is there any way to speed up the loading time of flash swf files in a browser without sacrificing quality? Thanks!

[F8] Possible Solutions To Cut Down On Loading Time
I'm working on a site with animations, a few embedded flash videos, and other images. I created a preloader, but the loading time for the site is ridiculously long. Any suggestions?

GotoAndStop Loading Time?
I'm having some trouble with the gotoAndStop function. I'm using it in a movie that has 16 frames, each containing an average 300-400 lines of code and several layers of text and movie clips. I've noticed that if in the first frame I try to gotoAndStop any frame past frame 8 it doesn't work properly. But if I move the gotoAndStop function to the second frame it will work fine. Does anyone know why this would be? Could it be that when it's in the first frame Flash hasn't had time to load enough before it tries going to the later frame?
Thanks for any ideas!