Flash :: When To Use 'runtime Bitmap Caching'?

Use Runtime Bitmap Caching?
what is the property feature "use runtime bitmap caching" used for? mousing over the checkbox gives an explanation, which i understand, but i don't know why you would use it. i think it may help with a problem i'm having too and wanted to check with you guys to see what you use it for and the consequences, if any, of using it.

i have movie clips that have images loaded into them from an xml file. so mc1 is on the stage, in frame 1, with an instance name of mc1. in the actions layer of this frame, my script loads an image into the clip via an xml file. all works fine and good. now in frame 2 i want to re-position mc1 into the same position that mc2 is located. whenever i copy the instance from the previous frame, then manually re-position it.... all is still well, the images load fine. however, whenever i just rename the instance name of mc2 to mc1, the image doesn't stay loaded into the clip? why not?

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[F8] Use Runtime Bitmap Caching - All The Time?
Hi

I'm a bit confused with the 'Use Runtime Bitmap Caching' option
I know what it does, but will it also work on objects that are also moving/ rotating? (Everything I'm using is moving and/or rotating)

And if it doesn't work, will there be any consequences of leaving it ticked for everything? More CPU, more RAM, larger filesize?

Or should I turn it off for everything?

Many thanks

:-)

M

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How To Disable Runtime Bitmap Caching?
I'm using a ColorMatrixFilter on a Movie Clip to change the image inside the Movie Clip to Gray Scale and I discovered that the filter is setting the Bitmap cache to true which is causing the image to shake when the container Movie Clip is moved. Is there a way to disable the cache on the Bitmap? I've already tried to set cacheAsBitmap on the Movie Clip and the filter to false. thanks

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HELP PLZ / Blend; Use Runtime Bitmap Caching
Hi ... am using flash MX pro 2004, and am working on some masking yet the blend check box for useing runtime bitmap caching in the bottom doesnt exist. is there anyway i can make it apear ?? or is it the flash am using ??

I would apreciate some help plz :roll:
cheers :lol:

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"use Runtime Bitmap Caching"?
What does this do?

"use runtime bitmap caching"

It's located on the properties panel.

I saw an example of it, and they used it to allow a mask to fade using gradients. which is really cool. But why does using runtime bitmap caching make that happen?? what's is actually doing?

thanks for clearing up all my misunderstoods!

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Bitmap Caching
I'm returning to the board after while...

anyway, I'm doing some scripts that have a lot of drawing going on, and I would like to cache this drawing as a bitmap, but the simple cacheAsBitmap is not doing the trick (not suprisingly). I realize I have to create a bitmap that I will add the drawing to. LAs time I tried it I ran into some issues as the bitmap that I was updating kept adding itself to create some harsh lines.
has anyone seen this done simply somewhere?

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Bitmap Caching
Hi
Wondered if someone could give me some advice. I am working ona project where a user can pick an avatar and enter chatrooms. The idea is to display the avatrs to represent people in the different rooms. Currently there are around 25 different heads and bodies (which can be mixed andmatched) and 6 different images for a character. I currently have a nested movie clip that pulls in info form xml and the structure of the clip is something like:

frame that loads in intial fornt facing head and body into seperate clips
frame that houses a "walker clip". this contains 4 movie clips one for the head and 3 for each frame of walk animation

Ideally i would like to be able to cache these images so i am not downlaoding the same assets over and over. Can someone point me in right direction to acheive this? the simpler the better;) I.e would it be as easy as jsut checking the runtime bitmap cache on the properties box for each moivie clip? Or is that overly optmisitc (namely bitmpa cache shouldt be usedofr animation?) and i need to do soemthing more extensive? any help would be great here.

regards

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Bitmap Caching?
If I enable bitmap caching for a MovieClip, which contains further MovieClips, are those child mcs automatically cached as bitmaps, or do I need to manually do those too, or does it make no difference?

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Bitmap Caching Question
Hello,

A quick question about caching bitmaps inside of flash, i have a couple of layers of bitmap images that are static items on the screen and won't be moving. If I add them to a movieclip and enable bitmap caching will this cause them to be rendered once by the flash player?

I understand this functionality works on vectors and then causes them to be rendered as a bitmap and then cached does the same happen for raster images?

many thanks

Stefan

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Bitmap Caching Question
could someone clear up this for me?
does bitmap caching only apply to vector images? that would seem to make sense; a vector is turned into a bitmap then moved much quicker around the screen because the vectors don't have to be worked out every frame. however, i saw this :
http://www.brokenbutton.com/fp8testpng.html
which suggests that it works for bitmaps too. can anyone explain this?

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Bitmap Caching MC With Textfield In It
I'm trying to scroll some text by putting the textfield in a MC (textfield as child), and then moving the MC around.

Problem is when I have lots of text, the image becomes rather (very) heavy, and I start seeing huge performance hits. 60fps, down to below 20fps just for a small text box is pretty bad if you ask me.

Anyway, so I looked around and figured that if I could scroll the text as a bitmap, then that would be much faster because I know I can keep up the framerate if I use a bitmap in place of the text. And wala, the cacheAsBitmap paremeter.

Well, the thing is, setting cacheAsBitmap to true didn't really have an effect.. so, I wanted to verify that cache as bitmap caches all child objects, be it movie clips or textfields.. if not, is there any way I can convert textfields to bitmaps at runtime? I would hate to revert to manually creating bitmaps for all text.

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Bitmap Caching Doesn't Work
Hi Guys,

i need help why my bitmap caching doesn't work.

its very simple, i put lots of movieclip, each of them have "use runtime bitmap caching" ticked... not working

i attached my file and the other working file from adobe (the example is free to download from their website)

please help me

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Flash Player And Bitmap Caching
Hey

I was wondering if anyone could shade some light on this topic. When you load a swf into a movieclip, any bitmaps that are in the loading swf get uncompressed so that you can view them. When you unload that swf, do the bitmaps get flushed from memory or do they stay in memory on your computer for a while incase you want to view that file again (save time). I have heard that the only way to flush a uncompressed bitmap from memory is to unload the whole _level that it is on. Keep in mind that I am talking about memory not the cache. Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

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Antialias For Readability + Bitmap Caching
Pretty simple premise here. I have text, embedded font with its antialias set to readability. I'd put it for animation but it looks like garbage. Whether or not I enable runtime bitmap caching on its host movieclip or not, when I alpha tween the text it "pops".

I believe this is Flash removing its aliasing during the animation and when the tween is done, adding the aliasing. Is there anything I can do to force Flash to tween the aliased text without removing the aliasing? It doesn't "pop" when I have it set to antialias for animation...

Any tips or hints are welcome. Thanks in advance.

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Run-time Bitmap Caching With LoadClip?
In order to do an alpha-channel mask, you have to have the alphachannel movieclip set to use runtime bitmap caching as well as the image to be masked.

Although I get this to work great at first, any loading I do into the masked clip eliminates the effects of the alpha mask. Any ideas?

Jase

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Allow Smoothing For Stuff Creating By Bitmap Caching
Here's the deal. Normally, when you animate a Bitmap, the motion is very jerky due to pixel approximation. To get around this, you choose "allow smoothing" for the Bitmap in the Library.

However, as of Flash 8 we now have Bitmap caching which will basically convert your vectors into Bitmaps at runtime. All filters, for instance, do this. The result is jerky motion. The fix would be if there's some way to set allow smoothing. I haven't found a way.

Anybody know of any solutions?

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Allow Smoothing For Stuff Created By Bitmap Caching
Here's the deal. Normally, when you animate a Bitmap, the motion is very jerky due to pixel approximation. To get around this, you choose "allow smoothing" for the Bitmap in the Library.

However, as of Flash 8 we now have Bitmap caching which will basically convert your vectors into Bitmaps at runtime. All filters, for instance, do this. The result is jerky motion. The fix would be if there's some way to set allow smoothing. I haven't found a way.

Anybody know of any solutions?

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Bitmap Caching Alpha Mask Issue...
Using Flash 8;

Hello,

I have a problem with a tutorial I used, on the subject, "Bitmap Caching - Alpha Masks". The tutorial is found here, http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/29296/0/page/1.

This basically uses some of the new bitmap runtime features, along with masking, to "_Alpha tween from one picture to another". You place image 1 on layer 1, then image 2 on layer 2 and using the code "maskee.cacheAsBitmap = true; and maskMC.cacheAsBitmap = true;" slowly "reveal" the 2nd layer using an _alpha tween (there is other code involved of course!).

The problem is that it seems half the time, the 2nd image will not be "fully revealed", meaning that some of the layer 1 image is still showing. But then sometimes the effect works great and looks nice and clean.

This is a cool effect for a "Before and After" photo gallery I am working on, but not when image 1 is kind of "mixed" together with image 2.

The code works most of the time, I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas, why it sometimes seems to "get stuck half-way"?

Or does anyone know of other tutorials which describe this effect?

I have this effect live online if anyone wants to see it, just post here, or I can also post the source code, which is basically the same as the tutorial.

Thanks...

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Slow Drop Shadow On XML Images, Bitmap Caching?
Alright, here's something I've been wanting to add to my site for a long time, but it slowed it down too much. Check out www.jbnight.com The images are loaded via XML. I really want a nice drop shadow behind each image (they are all different sizes) to seperate them from the background better. However, adding it in AS as the image loads slows the site down horribly. I've been working on an intro animation and am learning about the new bitmap caching feature. Would adding some AS to bitmap cache the DS help, or because they are all different DS, would it not help at all? If this would help, how would I implement the AS?

Here is the AS for the galleries. I believe I put the DS in the FadeIn function before, and it was very slow:

stop();
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
xmlNode = this.firstChild;
image = [];
description = [];
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
image[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
description[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
}
id = setInterval(preloadPic, 100);
} else {
content = "file not loaded!";
}
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("behindthescenes.xml");
var p = 0;
var current;
var k = 0;
// ////////////////////////////////
function preloadPic() {
clearInterval(id);
var con = picture.duplicateMovieClip("con"+k, 9984+k);
con.loadMovie(image[p]);
preloader._visible = 1;
con._alpha = 0;
var temp = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("temp"+k, 99+k);
k++;
temp.onEnterFrame = function() {
var total = con.getBytesTotal();
var loaded = con.getBytesLoaded();
percent = Math.round(loaded/total*100);
preloader.preload_bar._xscale = percent;
if (con._width) {
con._x = Stage.width/2-(con._width/2)
preloader._visible = 0;
con.onEnterFrame = fadeIn;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
}
MovieClip.prototype.fadeIn = function() {
if (this._alpha<100) {
current._alpha -= 4;
this._alpha += 4;
} else {
current._visible = 0;
current = this;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
desc_txt.text = description[p];
picture_num();
};
function nextImage() {
p<total-1 ? (p++, preloadPic()) : null;
desc_txt.text = description[p];
picture_num();
}
function prevImage() {
p>0 ? (p--, preloadPic()) : null;
desc_txt.text = description[p];
picture_num();
}
function picture_num() {
current_pos = p+1;
pos_txt.text = current_pos+" / "+total;
}
listen = new Object();
Key.addListener(listen);
previous_btn.onRelease = function() {
prevImage();
};
next_btn.onRelease = function() {
nextImage();
};
Actions.gotoAndPlay = function(gotoAndPlay) {
if (_root.current != undefined) {
_root.current.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._alpha -= 7;
if (this._alpha<0) {
this._alpha = 0;
_root.gotoAndPlay(gotoAndPlay);
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
} else {
_root.gotoAndPlay(gotoAndPlay);
}
};

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Trace Bitmap At Runtime - Is This Possible?
Hello everyone,

I am wondering whether Flash's excellent trace bitmap feature is available through actionscript at run-time. I wish to try and use flash to accomplish this task from within a Director projector, accessing an external bitmap image.

Anyone have any experience with this?

Thank you,

Tim

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Runtime Bitmap Fill
Hello!
I want to make a memory game like this:
The game will contain 60 cards (30 cards with unique content). I want a simple turning animation when I click the card. So, I'll make one single movieClip for all the cards. The problem is that I want my every card to have a different image for the back side every time (all the card will combine a specific pattern).

The question is: how can I do that?
One solution will be to change the bitmapFill of my animated shape card but from what I searched this is not possible without redrawing the shape, loosing the animation this way.

Here's my pattern that my cards will need to have:

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Exporting A Bitmap At Runtime?
I'm wondering if it is possible to export a "screenshot" of the stage to an image file that the user can download. for instance, they draw a picture, click a download button, and get a prompt to download the image they've drawn as a jpeg or what have you. I've found some sparse info about using PHP to send a bitmapdata object to the server (I think), but I need a little more help. I'm working with AS3 and CS3.

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Change Bitmap At Runtime Through ActionScript
Hi guys,

Is it possible to change a bitmap at runtime through actionScript?

For example...

The movie clip guitarMainMC contains a bitmap called A_fing3_fret3...

on click, can the bitmap inside the movie clip be changed to a bitmap called A_fing2_fret2 inside the same guitarMainMC movie clip?

Thanks, Rob

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Unable To Load The Bitmap At Runtime.
import flash.display.BitmapData;

var testBmp:BitmapData=BitmapData.loadBitmap("Sunset");

var testClip:MovieClip=this.createEmptyMovieClip("testClip",tsetClip.getNextHighestDepth());

testClip.attachBitmap(testBmp,1);

testClip._x = 20;
testClip._y = 20;

is there any problem for above code?

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Export Vector / Bitmap Data At Runtime
Is there a way to incorporate functionality (like a button) which when pressed can either:

Copy the content of a flash movie as a bitmap
* or *
Copy the content of a flash movie as a vector

AT RUNTIME?

I don't really care how the bitmap/vector info will be stored, although I would definitely like it on the clipboard.

Any ideas on how to achive this? (If it can be achieved).

Thanks in advance,
Angelos

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Convert MovieClip To Bitmap And Save On Disk At Runtime
can anybody help me to solve my this problem
i want to save my movieclip as image file at runtime on disk
is this possible by using flash as3 or 2

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Resize Bitmap, Then Draw(Bitmap) To A Separate BitmapData, Doesn't Work Right...?
Hey everyone,

So, I'm loading a jpg into a BitmapData variable, which is liked to a Bitmap variable, then I resize the Bitmap variable.

Every 10 secs it unloads the current bitmap and loads a new one.

But I want to draw the resized bitmaps to a separate BitmapData Variable, except when I try and do that it draws it in the original size... ? Why doesn't it draw the new resized version?

Any ideas?

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[F8] Possible To Set Runtime Sharing Path At... Runtime?
After a weekend of pulling my hair out on this problem it looks like the paths for runtime sharing are relative to the HTML page, not the SWF. This is a problem because the client wants to be carefree in distributing the SWFs around the server. (In fact is demanding it.) So I need a way to set the runtime sharing path at runtime.

Or put another way...
"child.swf" is looking for fonts and graphics in "master.swf" If I move them all (including "master.swf") to some/random/folder/ and embed them from a HTML page at /a/different/folder/ the linkage breaks, even though the files load fine. (The paths to the SWFs are sent via XML.)

Any ideas? I really can't hard-code this and I probably can't compile new versions each time they feel like moving stuff around.

Worst case I'll skip the runtime sharing, but it would make the files needlessly big and slow.

(Publishing to Flash 8 AS2)

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CopyPixels While Moving Bitmap When Overlay Layer Has Bitmap Effects Bug?
hi,

Wanted to create a walking character, using a large image of all this character postures as resource.

Did this:
1. Created a new Bitmap with its BitmapData
2. Created an EnterFrame event listener to this Bitmap where:
a. I move the Bitmap to the right
b. I change the character posture by copying pixels from the large image to the characters BitmapData

Works fine...

But then I've added another layer (sprite) on top of this bitmap.
Added a glow filter to this layer (sprite) and got the following bug:
The character (Bitmap) is leaving trails as it moves... as if Flash doesn't clean after it...

Please see attached files - it's all there, short and clear.

Basically, the pseudo code looks like this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
var __sourceBmpData:SourceBmpData = new SourceBmpData(72, 128);// SourceBmpData is a linkage name to an image on the library
var __imgBmpData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(24, 32, true, 0x00000000);

var __imgBmp:Bitmap = new Bitmap(__imgBmpData);
this.addChild(__imgBmp);

// add event listener
__imgBmp.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, Walk);

// bug layer
var bug_mc:Sprite = new Sprite();
this.addChild(bug_mc);

var glow:GlowFilter = new GlowFilter();
glow.color = 0xFF0000;
bug_mc.filters = [glow];

// enter frame
private function Walk(event:Event):void {
__imgBmp.x = 32 + __posX * 12;
__imgBmpData.copyPixels(__sourceBmpData, new Rectangle((__posX % 3) * 24, 32, 24, 32), new Point(0, 0));

__posX++;
}

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Is it a bug or am I doing somthing wrong?

Thanks,
EZ

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CopyPixels While Moving Bitmap When Overlay Layer Has Bitmap Effects Bug?
hi,

Wanted to create a walking character, using a large image of all this character postures as resource.

Did this:
1. Created a new Bitmap with its BitmapData
2. Created an EnterFrame event listener to this Bitmap where:
a. I move the Bitmap to the right
b. I change the character posture by copying pixels from the large image to the characters BitmapData

Works fine...

But then I've added another layer (sprite) on top of this bitmap.
Added a glow filter to this layer (sprite) and got the following bug:
The character (Bitmap) is leaving trails as it moves... as if Flash doesn't clean after it...

Please see attached files - it's all there, short and clear.

Basically, the pseudo code looks like this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
var __sourceBmpData:SourceBmpData = new SourceBmpData(72, 128); // SourceBmpData is a linkage name to an image on the library
var __imgBmpData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(24, 32, true, 0x00000000);

var __imgBmp:Bitmap = new Bitmap(__imgBmpData);
this.addChild(__imgBmp);

// add event listener
__imgBmp.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, Walk);

// bug layer
var bug_mc:Sprite = new Sprite();
this.addChild(bug_mc);

var glow:GlowFilter = new GlowFilter();
glow.color = 0xFF0000;
bug_mc.filters = [glow];

// enter frame
private function Walk(event:Event):void {
__imgBmp.x = 32 + __posX * 12;
__imgBmpData.copyPixels(__sourceBmpData, new Rectangle((__posX % 3) * 24, 32, 24, 32), new Point(0, 0));

__posX++;
}

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Is it a bug or am I doing somthing wrong?

Thanks,
EZ

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The um... title... kinda said it all. I have a mask. I have a bitmap under the mask. I want to move the bitmap around with elastic motion so I put it in an MC and cut and pasted some functions.

I can see it moving fine when i delete the mask. And I can see it masked fine when I delete the functions. But when both are there I just get emtpy space.

Is there something I don't know but shoud about elastic motion and masks or is there something ****y going down and I probably need to post the FLA?

Thanks all,
-damnit.

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hi all

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Is it posible to save the bitmap data in flash?

thanks in advance

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As the line may change the direction, I will need the bitmapfill to change direction following the direction of the line. What is the best way to do this? Any example out there?

For polygons, can we use bitmapfill to fill irregular shapes?

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Mabey better worded:
myBitmap.draw(image, t) draws a picture is there a way to draw text?

I'm stuck even if its just a work around in some way I would like to know... (the current work around i have in my head is writing it in a movieclip turning that into bitmap data and drawing it... esentially creating a prototype answering my question... but a built in way would be easier probably).

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Hey,

Is there any way to speed up bitmap smoothing? or to achieve the same effect with something less processor intensive? Or maybe a way to reduce the amount that it smooths or something. Btw, when I say speed up I mean less processor intensive.

In the project I'm currently working on the image must be rotated and scaled smoothly to 1.5 times it's starting size. If there is any different way to achieve a smooth-ish image please let me know. Even if it's really complicated, if it's at all faster I want it hear it.

How I'm currently doing it is I load in the images (jpg) from an XML file, create a bitmap take the bitmap data from the loaded jpg and enable smoothing. Then I add that bitmap to a movieclip and then I do my stuff from there. It's a complex photo viewer. It all works, but I need to make it work using less resources.

Any ideas are MUCH appreciated! Thanks

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I've even gone as far as trying to implement my own system using get and set pixel, but that is rather pointless as the code runs far to slow, unlike the optimized functions flash uses.

I was just wondering if one of the developers could fix this problem (if it really does exist). I thought flash CS3 would fix this simple concept, but they didn't. I don't use movieClips when I program my games, so using them for something this trivial leads me to believe that the developers didn't foresee the use of bitmap region to bitmap much.

Has anyone else noticed this before? Any fast fixes or workarounds?

Edited: 05/14/2007 at 06:20:42 PM by Sirisian

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Hello, thanks for reading...
I'm currently working on a project in which I have used some files created with FlashTyper which I load with Loadmovie command. Now, there's no problem when I preview the movie, since the files are already loaded, but when I view it online, it has to download the file every time before playing it, and sometimes it actually doesn't work because by the time it's finished loading, the movie is playing the next scene...Anyway, my prelaoder looks like this:

total_bytes = _root.getBytesTotal();
loaded_bytes = _root.getBytesLoaded();
remaining_bytes = total_bytes-loaded_bytes;
percent_done = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100);
bar.gotoAndStop(percent_done);
ifFrameLoaded ("logo", 1) {
nextScene ();
}

And it doesn't seem to load the swf's...so is there a way to do it? I mean, can the swf be loaded before the movie gets to the frame where I put the Loadmovie command?

EDIT: I can't modify the swfs Forgot to mention that.
[Edited by lazarus741 on 06-22-2001 at 08:21 AM]

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