Flash :: Cache Movie

Can You Preload Or Cache Next Movie While Existing Movie Playing?
Is there a way to cache the next movie in the playing sequence without using levels? I would like to cache the next movie and have it "ready" to play seamlessly with the current one since these 2 files use the same background. Currently the loading period between these 2 movies causes a flashing effect.

thanks

Movie/swf Cache On IE
Is there a way on how to remove the cached file of a movie so that if you update the swf, users dont need to clear their cache manually.

Does Load Movie Have It's Own Cache
I have a gallery which loads external JPEGS into a movie, the first image is automatically loaded, then there are a series of buttons for the other images.

Offline the gallery works fine, the first image is unloaded then the next chosen image is loaded into the movie.

Online though after the first image loads any chose image doesn't display, although it does load as I have a progress bar that monitors the upload.

The funny thing is if I click back to the first image then try the second one again, it works fine. So once the loaded image is in the cache there isn't a problem.

Not sure how to get around this.

¿ Unload Movie Without Deleting From Cache ¿
i am trying to lower the size of my final SWF size... in doing this i made several external swf files... to do this i am using :

on (release) {
loadMovieNum ("reunion.swf", 1);
}

any one know how to unload this file without deleting it from the cache?

thanks every one...

How Do You Create A Movie Cache For 10 Movies?
Does anyone know to create a movie cache that will hold like 10 preloaded movies? And how to write a "with" or "tellareget" action to call one of the movies from the cahce and load it into another movie?

How To Avoid Loading Movie From Cache
Hai flash guys

I've cache problem while in online updation. My flash movie loads the text file to display the values. Throughout day i'll update my text file. So i would like to see my flash movies with updated new messages. If we refresh the IE browser new updated text file messages are not loading. What i've to do. Any scripts to avoid loading from cache. I need help.

Otherwise, its possible to load the text file message without deleting the cache or opening new window. IF so Pls give me and solution. If u sent any sample file I'm too happy. I've to fix this problem asap.

So, anybody give hands to get fix this problem solution

thx
sathish

Loaded Movie Doesn't Cache
Hi, just completed my first flash site, but am having some problems with loadMovie controls. I think I must be missing a trick somewhere.

URL: http://www.domerocker.com/2004/firsthalf/

I have it set so that a button click loads the .swf file into a target (empty movie clip instance) in the main scene.

PROBLEM: Everytime the user clicks the country buttons, the movie begins to load (with the preloader) even if this movie has been viewed and loaded already.

EXPECTED: If the movie has already been viewed, the movie should be in the browser cache and the user should not have to see the preloader again for that country.

SOLUTION: ????

Preload Movie Into Browser Cache
How do I go about preloading a swf into the browsers cache, but not into the preloader movie? There are a ton of flash sites out there that preload a movie and when the loading is finished have an "enter" button. That enter button sometimes launches a new window with the already loaded swf. How is that done?

Movie Runs Preloader Even When In Computers Cache - Why?
Hi there,

My site seems to run the preloader even if you have visited the site before. I can't understand why. Any ideas?

I have this code in the first frame (the main movie is on frame 4)

Code:
preloader_array = ["..this is a story about","something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.","It is a very important story because it shows ","how all the comings and goings between our world and ","the world back then first began... how wakeyvegas first began...",""];
loadedBytes = this.getBytesLoaded();
totalBytes = this.getBytesTotal();
if(loadedBytes==totalBytes){
this.gotoAndPlay(4);
};

this is on frame 2:

Code:
if(loadedBytes==totalBytes){
this.gotoAndPlay(4);
};
loadedBytes = this.getBytesLoaded();
totalBytes = this.getBytesTotal();
sentence = int((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*5);
percentageOutput = int((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*100);
_root.sentencebox.text = preloader_array[sentence];
displayloaded = int(loadedBytes / 1000);
displaytotal = int(totalBytes/1000);

frame 3:

Code:
gotoAndPlay(2);

Any ideas why it is always loading it?

Thanks
Graeme

Cache'ing Images Loaded In A Flash Movie...
K, i'm making a website that needs to display previews of various items of clothing. Now that we've got a fair sized stock of different kinds of clothes, the flash file is gett very large. I have decided to create a movie clip that when you roll over a button, it loads an external jpg. My problem is that its not loading the right size...like, i gotta make my movie clip about 7x9 pixels to accomodate a picture 338x450 pixels...how can i make them match up? or at least be centered so i don't need a new movie clip for every pic. My problem tho, is that when you roll out, it unloads the movie...so, it would suck major bandwidth if i let people run their mouse over the pics like a hundred times. Anyone got ideas for me?

Preloaded Flash Movie Not Playing From IE Cache
Hi 'Kitters

Up against it today, so looking for a speedy reply if possible..

I have created a Flash movie that uses the first 4 frames to run a preloader that plays the rest of the movie once the whole thing has loaded. However, I then use navigation buttons to load a subsequent standard HTML page. On this HTML page, clicking 'Home' sends the user back to the Flash movie... but... it loads itself again with the preloader etc.

Is it not possible that once the movie has pre-loaded, that it can just be read back from the browsers cache and needn't load in again?

How might this be done?

Thanks in advance for any advice offered.

Deuxbieres

How Do I Skip Preloader When Movie Is Already Loaded In Cache...
I am making a web site for a photographer. Each portfolio is an externbal .swf movie that I am importing into Flash, into level 1 each time.

Each portfolio does not need to be preloaded again after it has been loaded one time - since it is saved in the cache after that and can be revisited. I rather not want the user to notice / have it load again so can you tell me if there is a script that says:

"please preload, but if already loaded then go start right away"

I know action scripting and knwo there must be something out there like that, but am by no means a guru, so please explain carefully.

Thanks a lot!!!

Check If Movie Is In Browser Cache (Preloading)
Hi scripters,

I am currently working on an advanced preloader, with a preloading animation. It has the following structure:

-Animation in (preloader shows up)
-Preloading of items in queue(the actual preload of the items)
-Animation out (preloader disappears)

The problem is as follows: everytime an user opens a window in my application it gets the "animation in". I don't want this, because the window is the same for every item so a preload when the window opens for the first time is sufficient.

To accompish this, I want the preloader to check (before "animation in") if the swf is loaded in the browser cache. If it is, it can skip the preloading (thus not showing the irritating preloader "animation in"). If it isn't, the preloading animation should start and load the movie in the cache. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

I Already tried to solve this problem with shared objects, but this doesn't work if the user has flushed the browser cache (because shared objects are located in a different folder than the browser cache).

Another posibility would be a timer, that checkes how long the loading takes for an item. For example: if an item is loaded in less than one second, the "animation in" is not showed. With this construction there is a second problem: The preloader loads the items from a queue, so with 6-7 items the whole proces would take up to 7 seconds!

Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

Sorry for my bad english

Thank you in advance

How To Pass Parameter To AS2 Movie And Still Use Browser's Cache?
Hello,

I am loading an AS2 movie from AS3, and would like to pass a parameter to it. The value of the parameter will be different each time.

The loaded movie is quite big, and I need it to be loaded from the browser's cache.

However, everything I have tried appends the parameter as a query string, which is a problem because then it won't load the movie from the browser's cache, since the browser recognizes it as a "different" file to load.

Example:

PHP Code:

var urlVars:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
urlVars.myvar = "randomvalue";

var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("child.swf");
urlReq.data = urlVars;

var ldr:Loader = new Loader();
ldr.load(urlReq, addedDefinitions);

The problem is, this will make a request that looks like:

PHP Code:

child.swf?myvar=randomvalue

Since myvar is assigned a different random value for each call, it doesn't end up loading child.swf from the browser's cache.

Is there any way to load the file as just "child.swf", and pass myvar as a FlashVar (or whatever the equivalent is in AS3)? Ideally, the variable would be available to the child movie as _root.myvar.

I can do this from the HTML webpage (using FlashVars), but I can't seem to do it in AS3 directly.

Thank you!
p.s. I tried using: urlReq.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
But that seems to cause it not to use the browser's cache either.

Check If Movie Is In Browser Cache (Preloading)
Hi scripters,

I am currently working on an advanced preloader, with a preloading animation. It has the following structure:

-Animation in (preloader shows up)

-Preloading of items in queue(the actual preload of the items)

-Animation out (preloader disappears)

The problem is as follows: every time an user opens a window in my application it gets the "animation in". I don't want this, because the window is the same for every item so a preload when the window opens for the first time is sufficient.

To accomplish this, I want the preloader to check (before "animation in") if the swf is loaded in the browser cache. If it is, it can skip the preloading (thus not showing the irritating preloader "animation in"). If it isn't, the preloading animation should start and load the movie in the cache. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

I Already tried to solve this problem with shared objects, but this doesn't work if the user has flushed the browser cache (because shared objects are located in a different folder than the browser cache).

Another possibility would be a timer, that checks how long the loading takes for an item. For example: if an item is loaded in less than one second, the "animation in" is not showed. With this construction there is a second problem: The preloader loads the items from a queue, so with 6-7 items the whole process would take up to 7 seconds!

Does anyone have a solution for this problem.

Sorry for my bad english

Thank you in advance

Solve Cache Problems When You Load A Movie
Hi,

I have read this tutorial but I´m new to flash so I would be nice if someone could explain it a little bit more.

Here is the AS:

myIdentifier=Math.round(Math.random()*10000);
loadMovie("myAnim.swf?uniq="+myIdentifier,1);

How do I use it? Lets say I have a movie with the name "movie1" and another movie with the name "movie2". Now I want to load "movie2" into "movie1" in an empty MC with the name "content" when I press a button.

Can some friendly soul help me with the code and tell me were to put it?

How To Pass Parameter To AS2 Movie And Still Use Browser's Cache?
Hello,

I am loading an AS2 movie from AS3, and would like to pass a parameter to it. The value of the parameter will be different each time.

The loaded movie is quite big, and I need it to be loaded from the browser's cache.

However, everything I have tried appends the parameter as a query string, which is a problem because then it won't load the movie from the browser's cache, since the browser recognizes it as a "different" file to load.

Example:

PHP Code:

var urlVars:URLVariables = new URLVariables();urlVars.myvar = "randomvalue";var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("child.swf");urlReq.data = urlVars;var ldr:Loader = new Loader();ldr.load(urlReq, addedDefinitions);

The problem is, this will make a request that looks like:

PHP Code:

child.swf?myvar=randomvalue

Since myvar is assigned a different random value for each call, it doesn't end up loading child.swf from the browser's cache.

Is there any way to load the file as just "child.swf", and pass myvar as a FlashVar (or whatever the equivalent is in AS3)? Ideally, the variable would be available to the child movie as _root.myvar.

I can do this from the HTML webpage (using FlashVars), but I can't seem to do it in AS3 directly.

Thank you!
p.s. I tried using: urlReq.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
But that seems to cause it not to use the browser's cache either.

Check If Movie Is In Browser Cache (Preloading)
Hi scripters,

I am currently working on an advanced preloader, with a preloading animation. It has the following structure:

-Animation in (preloader shows up)

-Preloading of items in queue(the actual preload of the items)

-Animation out (preloader disappears)

The problem is as follows: every time an user opens a window in my application it gets the "animation in". I don't want this, because the window is the same for every item so a preload when the window opens for the first time is sufficient.

To accomplish this, I want the preloader to check (before "animation in") if the swf is loaded in the browser cache. If it is, it can skip the preloading (thus not showing the irritating preloader "animation in"). If it isn't, the preloading animation should start and load the movie in the cache. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

I Already tried to solve this problem with shared objects, but this doesn't work if the user has flushed the browser cache (because shared objects are located in a different folder than the browser cache).

Another possibility would be a timer, that checks how long the loading takes for an item. For example: if an item is loaded in less than one second, the "animation in" is not showed. With this construction there is a second problem: The preloader loads the items from a queue, so with 6-7 items the whole process would take up to 7 seconds!

Does anyone have a solution for this problem.

Sorry for my bad english

Thank you in advance

Solve Cache Problems When You Load A Movie
I've read the tutorial but I've not understood how it works.
How sould I save the swf ? (which name sould I give to it?)

Thanks in advance.
viviana

Movie Clips That Won't Stop Playing. Do I Need To Clear The Cache?
I'm having a problem with movieclips continuing to play in frames where there's no movieclip instance in the frame where the playhead stops.

I have keyframes with stop actions on frames 1 and 5. Movie1 is in Frame1. I'm using a button rollover that goes to frame 5 where Movie2 starts playing, but the original clip from frame 1 is still playing so there's a nasty overlap happening. On rollout the playhead is set to go back to frame 1 and you can guess what happens here. Movie1 starts playing again so I've got Movie1 playing twice on the same spot. Bloody annoying.

I'm sorry if I've not explained this very well but it's the only way I can think of. I'll be happy to send the file over to anyone who wants to help. Hopefully someone will.

Cheers

Loaded Movie Doesn't Cache (reloads Each Time)
Hi, just completed my first flash site, but am having some problems with loadMovie controls. I think I must be missing a trick somewhere.

URL: http://www.domerocker.com/2004/firsthalf/

I have it set so that a button click loads the .swf file into a target (empty movie clip instance) in the main scene.

PROBLEM: Everytime the user clicks the country buttons, the movie begins to load (with the preloader) even if this movie has been viewed and loaded already.

EXPECTED: If the movie has already been viewed, the movie should be in the browser cache and the user should not have to see the preloader again for that country.

SOLUTION: ????

Setting Movie To The Last Frame Once Loaded In Browser Cache
Hi,

I have a flash movie that I would like to play the first time round only, and then fix to the last frame whenever the user returns to the page. Is this possible, and do I need action script?

DH

[FP8, AS2] Preview Movie, Loading Videos Via XML, Testing... How To Stop Cache?
The summary/title pretty much says it all.

I really do not want to add a random number query string to the end of each movie via my XML file... Is there any way to prevent the flash player from caching the videos for testing purposes?

I am testing locally, but loading videos from the net.

Tips?

Many TIA!
Cheers,
Micky

MX:Cache - Please Cache The Images
Hello,

I load jpegs into a MC for a photography website. The images should cache in the browser (plenty of space allocated) but they do not. The images are loaded by replacing the previous image in the MC - so if I want to view a previous image I must load it into the MC again.

However, this should not be a problem from what I understand.

I use a Mac and IE 5 - I know it works on a PC!!

Does anybody else know of any issues relating to non-caching on a Mac??

Thanks in advance for your help.

Osc

Argggg IE Why.....wtf? Cache? No-cache?
http://www.walrusdogblues.com/colouringBook/?pageId=2

first time you view it in IE it should be fine (with crayon box in top left)
after that it renders but not the crayons....

if you cleare cache it works
Ive got pragma-nocache tags....
and im appending a date to the swf url to make each request unique but its still seems to be cacheing...because if you clear cache the crayons show up fine

It works in FF, works in Opera....but the damn crayons wont show in IE unless you clear your cache each time....

please anyone know why? im going crazy

errr I guess this should be in serverside if a mod would move it

Cache Cache Why Wont You Go Away
I have a client side dynamic graph whose values will change in the graph but the actually bars do not. It seems as though the graph writes over the old one. I'm thinking the prob is with the cache but do not know what to do about fixing that.
I tried setting no cache or the timestamp to an earlier date forcing it to clear the cache in the meta tab but that didn't work. I really do not know what to do, and would appreciate any help advice work arounds. Thank you

No Cache
I have a root movie that loads several *.swf movies into it when clicked on a button in the root movie. How can I tell flash with actionscript NOT to cache some of those loaded swf movies ?

Gr33tz

x.

CACHE
Is it possible to make flash to take values from the server and not to take it from the cache when viewed in a browser?????

I am working with ASP-FLASH movie integrated project.

So when the movie is viewed in a browser, I need vales from the server everytime

The Flash is working fine in Standalone player

Cache CD
HI ALL_

I seem to have a small or large problem. I have created a large projector for a presentation. But if I try and view it on a slightly slower computer to my own it says flash player is out of memory and will then only play the movie with thousands of colours. I've got it down to about 6Mb but I still have problems. I think that the computer trying to cache the project but has problems is this possible and if so how can I make it not cache the pages.

Hope some one can help

Cheers

jody

No More SWF In Cache?....
Well i have a proble--
i have a SWF file and i dun want it to be save in the Temporary Internet Files
how can i make all my Flash files expired after they play or how can i
make them unloadable from Temporary Internet Files

Cache?
I publish my site, i check it out, and I change some things.
Publish it again, but don't see the changes!

What's wrong? is it in my cache memory? Does visitors have the same when visit my site? What can I do about it?

PHP Cache
sorry this should be here:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=388667

The .swf WON'T Cache
hi,

I've got a 750 k .swf that won't stay in the cache (when it is reloaded even in the same visit, you have to wait for it to download). It has a preloader in it's first scene. does it's re-loading have anything to do with its size? any other reasons why it won't cache?

thanks a lot.

Cache PC/MAC
i have noticed that a swf i made that loads external swf's doent seem to work the same as it does on the PC. It doesn't seem to load or stay in the memory. Are there differences in the cache?

anyone?
thanks

No Cache
Is there a way to not a swf cache on the client side?

Thanks
Shawn

No Cache
Hi, I don't want my web site to be cached because I'm updating it regularly but my visitors always enter the cached flash content. I'll be glad if you help me. Thanks.

Is This The Cache?
ok this is weird i can only assume this is the cache but i'm not sure since i'm not 100% on what exactly the cache is. anyways on my server i am using a php file instead of an html to hold my swf. the php file is really short all it does is it embeds the swf thats about it. anyways i just removed the swf from the server yet if i navigate to the url of the php script the swf still appears.furthermore when i replace the swf with one that has been altered it still shows the old swf. how do i stop this from happening (clearing the cache?)

Help With Cache
Hi all,

(bare with me...i did do a search for cache on the search)

just wonderin if u could help...
i have put a file up here: www.zerofx.net/pro
It use dynamic txt files, but whenever i try to update them, i have to delete my cookies/cache before i see the change.

I know there is some code to trick the cache by changing the variable name or whatever, but when i try and change the code for my movie, it doesn't work.

The text files are loaded dynamically into a .swf in an html page. At the moment i am using the code

Code:
loadVariablesNum("home.txt",0);

what is the exact code i need to enter, to trick the cache? cos whenever i enter code and test movie, it says: cannot detect my file with some number on the end.

Please help

No Cache
is there a way to prevent images to end up in the site visitors cache? the images have a copyright..

thanks

Cache
I have developed swf who is extracting text from one txt file. But when we change text from txt file, But its showing same because of cache.

Cache ?
While playing back swf1 on pageone.html I'd like to load in the background swf2 that will play on page2.html. What I'd like to know is what happens if swf2 is not fully cached when the viewer changes to page2? Is what has already cached just dumped or does the download continue where it left off? My situation is that I have 2 rather large swfs that will play in seperate html pages one right after another. If the viewer does not use the "skip" button on the first movie there is enough time for the second to cache. If they do skip then I need to know what happens to the movie that is downloading in the background.

thanks.

XML Cache
When calling or loading an XML file... does flash/browser treat it the same as a text file...in regards to CACHE?

just wondering if I need to add the "random" line to my XML file call.

usually for text files..I add a random NUM to the end of the url string..

can i do the same with XML as so:
code:
myXML_xml.load("products.xml?" add random(9999));

thanks

Is There A Way To Get Around Cache?
I'm going nuts here... I'm working on a flash site that I've uploaded. I'm trying to check it online and all I keep on getting is previously uploaded versions. I have tried deleting the cache in my browser but it does not work (it should)

I even downloaded the swf files to make sure I was uploading the right files... they are correct yet when I view in the browser it shows me the earlier uploaded version of the file...

Is there something I'm missing here, how does one get around this really annoying problem.

Greg.

Something Very Odd - Cache?
Hi,

I regularly get up the next day and find my project no longer works. Undefined properties all over the place. It's happened quite a few times now and I can't figure out why my .fla file compiles without problems before bedtime but complains in the morning when I get up! It's as if something is being cached that perhaps, by fluke, allows the .fla to compile. Am i looking for gremlins that aren't there or has anyone else noticed this anomaly?

Xml And The Cache
I have two different swfs that i want to communicate together. Im using xml as a bridge for them to communicate. How do I ensure that its loading a fresh xml page each time. Is there a cache buster object in flash to use?

This onclip event calls a function to load the xml.

Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.startGame == false) {

this._parent.loadXML();
}
}

This is the function the onclip event calls. If it loads and the xml node value is a 1 the onclip events no longer calls the xml load function and the game questions are laoded.

Code:
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
function loadXML(loaded) {
Started = parseInt(xmlData.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild);
_root.fb += "xmlData = "+xmlData+newline;
_root.fb += "Started = "+Started+newline;
if (Started == 1) {
_root.fb += "In the if statement";
startGame = true;
Getquestion();
}
}
//xmlData.load("http://www.wisc-online.com/xmlgame/"+bingopicked+".xml?cacheB="+new Date().getTime());
xmlData.load("http://www.wisc-online.com/xmlgame/"+bingopicked+".xml?nocache="+new Date().getTime());

Cache Movie

1. Will associated swf's be loaded once the main movie has finished loading?(My main movie is relatively small in size hence I would like to use the spare download time to preload the external movies in which it calls on.)2. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

1. Will associated swf's be loaded once the main movie has finished loading?

(My main movie is relatively small in size hence I would like to use the spare download time to preload the external movies in which it calls on.)

2. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this?