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Preloader Takes Too Long To Load
I've just made a movie in flash 5 and then upgraded to flash MX but this problem happens in both, the movie is around 160kb so i made a preloader in a new scene and when i goto show streming the preloader takes half the time the the whole movie takes to load, the preloader isnt even big, just has a little txt movie on it which is 10 frames, why does my preloader take so long to load???? any suggestions would be greatly aprreciated.

Preloader Takes Too Long To Load.
Hey all,

I have a movie that takes about 15 seconds to load. The file is 2010K. Can somebody help me with how to cut the loading time on this?

http://www.libertystation.com/flash/index.html

Thanks in advance,
-Meezee

Preloader Takes Too Long To Load
Hi. My Flash presentation has some biggish images with dynamic linkage. I have done what I read I should do, which is stick the images at the start of my presentation. I'm using scenes, so I have dumped them onto frame 1 of the scene which opens right after the preloader scene is done. The problem is that the preloader itself takes too long to load - maybe a good 8 seconds! So my presentation does load the big images first.. but why so long to load the preloader?? All help appreciated.

Preloader Takes Too Long To Load
I made a simple preloader which i tested on a small flash file and loaded fast but when it gets to the really big file which has about 10 layers it loads very late like when the download is about 41% thtoug.

I believe this defeats the purpose of the preloader and i also believe its the number of empty keyframes on frame one that delayed the preloader. I dont understand why this is happening because they are empty.
Someone please help

Preloader Takes Too Long
Hello all,

I'm trying to build a basic preloader. As of now it consists of a simple 100 frame movie clip with a progress bar that gets progressively revealed.

I created a new scene, moved it on top of the main scene, added the progress bar, gave it the instance name of "myLoader" and added the following code to frame 1 of this scene:

ActionScript Code:
totalBytes = getBytesTotal();
loadedBytes = getBytesLoaded();

if (totalBytes == loadedBytes) {
nextScene();
}

loadedPerc = int(loadedBytes / (totalBytes / 100));
myLoader.gotoAndStop(loadedPerc);

On frame 2 of this scene I added:

ActionScript Code:
GotoAndPlay(1);

The problem is when I test it the progress bar takes a long time to display and when it finally does is already nearing its end. That is, I only get to see the last few seconds of the progress animation.

Can someone please help me understand what am I doing wrong?

TIA,
Mario

Takes Long Time For Preloader To Come Up, Why?
On my site www.daskonzept.com...I have portfolio samples. When someone pushes on the button I load a seperate MC with the portfolio sample on the MC. on that MC I have a preloader for the image that just says "loading". However, it takes a long time for the word "loading" to come up after the person has pusherd the button. Is there something I can do to fix this. I guess I am worried that the person will think it is not working when it is.

Preloader Takes To Long To Apear
Hi, I am a flash user level.. well very low, and I already know how to build a preloader and all, but in my late flashes (flash MX I guess) the time that takes for the preload to apear is to long, and when it does 70% (give or take) of the flash has already been loaded.

Can anyone help me? I would like for the preload animation to apear much sooner, at 0% if its possible...

Thanks
Bruno Tebaldi

LOAD SCENE TAKES TOO LONG
Hi there. OK i´m having a huge problem. When i create a site i usually make diferent sections. So when someone click on (for exemple) Our products, the button load a movie called products.swf. But when someone clicks on it it takes too long to the load bar shows up.
If you didn´t understand go to the site and try it:
http://www.brazilnutimports.com

PLEASE HELP!
AND THANKS!

My Page Takes To Long To Load.
Can u guys try my page and see if it takes long for you to load and what I might be doing wrong if it does take forever? I have it all done in flash but I have 6 scenes to go from page to page plus my pictures of my work. The total size of the .swf is 3,518 KB. If thats to large then let me know on how I can make it faster and smaller to load quickly. Thanks

My homesite

Exe Movie Takes Too Long To Load
i have a flash exe movie that is about 138 megs. it takes too long to lead from the cd rom and takes about 97 megs in memory. can users with less ram be able to view it? the swf has already been optimized. can anything else be done to shorten to load time and memory consumption?

Website Takes Too Long To Load
I have just uploaded my first website, and disaster struck. It takes a couple of minutes to load.
Without ripping the file apart is there anything I can do to speed up the loading.

[CS3]Site Takes Long To Load
full swf size is probably around 3MB

but this is simply because the client wanted an MP3 to kick at HIGH Quality from the minute the user presses to enter to go the URL...

so i did a crude solution n jus stuck the MP3 at high quality in a movieclip over the entire site which is all inside about 10frames in scene 1...

how do i dynamically load the MP3 so that load time for the actual site is small

as right now the preloader doesnt even show until the mp3 starts.
but the MP3 needs to kick in as fast as poss

the link: http://www.cloudyromance.co.uk

Movie Takes Too Long To Load
I'm working on a website for a photographer. I want the images to be displayed in a movie similar to this website:

http://www.wilsonwenzel.com/

I figured out but now the problem I'm encountering is that my movie takes forever to load. Another problem is that it's a big hassle to have to individually make each image fade in and fade out, since there are so many images. Is there any code that I can use so that I don't have to do each individual image? Also, how can I make my preloader start loading faster. i would really appreciate the help!!! Please help me!!! thanks!

Page Takes Too Long To Load Why?
I am very new to web page develpment anf flash

Here is my problem

I have created a very simple web page it is made up of a black background and a flash movie that is 12kb in size.
When I try to load/view the html page on my PC it seems to take for ever to load up and eventually I quit trying to load the page.

I must be missing something very simple here. When I create a web page that has nothing but a black background it loads instantly so why is a web page that contains nothing but a 12kb flash movie taking so long to load

thanks

Problem Takes To Long To Load
hi i just uploaded my site and the problem that i have is that when i go to it to view it the splash page is ok but when i hit enter the preloader takes to long to appear i only see a black screen the lnk is
infinitgraphics.com
ive visited big sites that have all kinds of graphics and they dont have that problem like 2advanced or flashlevel how do they do it.

Flash Site Takes WAY To Long, Have Preloader
check out this web site www.johnnutterglass.com I have a pre-loader for each clip. There are 3 clips. The gallery, and arch. page. and the home page. The images are in the clips them selves. As you can see, the loading time is real sad.. No one will wait that long.. Only when you"refresh" your screen does they showup... After it says "done".. Any suggestions? Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Portfolio Site Takes Too Long Too Load
hi

We have put together a portfolio site at www.coupdeville.net. which we have tried to keep as simple as possible. the idea is there are a sequence of images that load one after another so should all be preloaded by the time they are accesed. however the site seems to insist on loading all the images before showing the front page. we have put a preloader on but this will not show either. have also tried putting all the images on seperate scenes to help load the title page quicker but again to no avail.. am i missing a basic point?

Flash Takes Too Long To Load Online
Hi All,

I am creating a web page using flash and it takes a long time to load when you go to the webpage. it opens as if it is working, but then the links don't work properly...that is...until at the bottom of the browser window it says "done" instead of "waiting for http://www.blah blah blah..." once it says "done" it works just fine.

two questions:

1. is there a way to reduce the size of the flash file so that it loads quicker online?
2. OR..does anyone know how to create that little "intro" screen when you go to a website that says "loading" and you see a little bar loading....and then only when it is COMPLETELY loaded, does the flash begin?

thanks so much!

Simple Flash With 2 Gif's Takes Too Long To Load
Hi all I am new too flash and just did a simple application with a heart gif moving to a stethoscope gif. I tried to view my results in ie but it never opened after loading for 10 minutes. Could anyone help with some tips and advice as to how I could make it run faster?

Can I Shrink My Site Down? Takes Too Long To Load.
Hey guys, I have my site which takes too long to load in some places. But at home my cable connection makes my page load pretty quickly. I have tried to shrink it down as much as possible but my page has a lot of scenes. I have sacrificed the image quality and sound quality and it still takes a pretty long time. I need some advice. IF anyone can help I would appreciate it. Thank you!

www.metconconstruction.com

Flash Video Takes To Long To Load On Site
any help?

HTML Page In Popup Takes Too Long To Load
hello!

if someone can take a look at this....i believe there is something wrong somewhere, which is why it takes so long to load the HTML page in the pop up....

go to this site: http://www.ziefle.de

press on the ziefle logo. then click "skip intro" and then on "news" in the navi above. i wrote the javascript function in the html page where the swf file embedded is. it looks like this:

PHP Code:

<script language="javascript">
    function news() {
        window.open("znewsframe.html", "news", "width=500,height=500,directories='no',menubar='no',location='no',resizable='no',scrollbars='no',toolbar='no'");
    }
</script>

then, on the news button in flash, i have :

on (release) {
getURL("javascript:news();");
}

thats it. the HTML page that is loaded in this pop is is a frameset. it only has a few pics and text. i just dont understand why it takes almost 30 secs. for the whole thing to load.

please help! im just fully frustrated with this thing!!!

thanks,

kat

[F8] Short Text Takes A Long Time To Load
Hey guys, I have a bit of a problem. I have this site http://www.nc3.back.co.il/

If you click on a link on the right, text should appear. Well, it does appear, but after a long time and I dont understand why.
If it's any help, each link loads a different swf file in to the main swf (loadMovie).

Thanks in advance, Alex.

Flash Takes To Long To Load For People On Phone Connection But Is Only 41 Kb
http://207.44.238.14/~design.com/html/index.php

Hi that link above is to a theme that is being designed for my site.
I see the flash at the top but Im on dsl.

People on phone connection say it takes forever to load for them - some say it takes over 2 minutes

The person who made the flash said its only 41kb and that is pretty small.

Why is it takein so long for people to see it on a phone connection?

Is there anyway to make it load faster or an alternative?

Thanks
Any help would be very appreciated

Sounds Takes Two Long To Long.. Why?
I have some sound loading from an external file, I don't understand why it takes so long to load... www.janav.com.
If you check my website three of the albums have songs...
album 6,7,8 have sound attached... but when you click you have to wait few seconds for the sound... I want to make my sound to load as fast as
www.benwisch.com website.

Any suggestions..?
I am not using linkage nor action script to load the soung I only used this code ..
on (release) {
stopAllSounds(); //to stop all previous sound
loadMovieNum("PaulinaRubio_Paulatina.swf", 2); // to load the picture first
loadMovieNum("music/paulina_music.swf",3); // to load the sound after the picture..

}

should I being using action scripts instead (like the kirupa tutorial), will this load very fast.

One more thing, the song is like 2 megabytes... should I use part of the song and then loop it.??/

Any suggestions will be appreciated...

Thanks,

Jana

Preloader Takes 4ever To Load?
Hi guys,
i'm new here.
i've consider myself to be an intermediate Flash user, but i haven't played with it in a bit since becoming Network Admin at my office.
Here's my problem...my preloader loads fine....but it has 2 problems:
1- it takes about 30 sec for the preloader to load
2- when it does, it loads very slow

Any help?

Takes Too Long.....
I was just wondering why my preloader takes sooo long to appear on the screen....???

I think it suddenly appears around 20% loaded.

How do I fix this problem?

Thanks

Movie Takes Too Long
Hi, I have a question. I have a movie that plays images that fade in and fade out. The images have preloaders. Below the movie is a menu bar. The problem I have is that when the movie is playing and I click on a button on the menu bar to take me to another page, it takes forever! Way too long. Here's the website:

www.pfrienderstylander.com/celebrity.htm

While the movie is playing if you click on TRAVEL, it takes a really long time. How can I change the actionscript to make it go instantly as soon as the button is clicked? I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks!!

Get Url - Blank Window, Takes Too Long
hi, i realized that get url in a new browser window function, opens inmediantly the new browser window but sometimes takes too long to get the url into the location bar, and sometimes just frezzes, by the way, i'm using windows xp, and i feel like flash runs better in older microsoft versions

thanks,
tulex

Loading Movies Takes Too Long
I have made a website in flash where each of the links loads to level 1. They are small files but take very long to load using a 56k modem. Is there a way i can speed this up or even load all the movies into memory while a preloader is in place. Please help. Can anybody even suggest an easier and faster way of working than loading movies into different levels. Thanks.

You can check it out at www.ministryinart.com/yourproject/destinyweb/

Website Takes To Long To Open
Please help I built my site the best i knew how but its too big and takes to long to open any help would make my day!!!!! thanks ahead of time

take a look www.charlescertain.com

Read Xml File Takes To Long?
I have tried to use the xml loader but it doesn't work as I suspected.
I want to write a program that does the following:
1. I want to read data from a xml file and put some of the data into an array.
2. I want to initialize some other array and variables.
3. I want to use the data that I stored in the array when the data was loaded from the xml file
4. Then I want to move around objects with parameters that I got in the xml file.

My problem is that it seems that the xml loader takes a little bit to long time or something else is very wrong.
In the code below I read the xml file and call a function loadXML, I use a trace in this just to see when it executes.
After the loader declaration with its eventlistener I want to start using the array that is supposed to be filled in the loadXML function. But its here my prblem occurs. The data isn't filled in when I want to use it, in the trace that I use below it says that my array has length 0 "trace(rutArray.length);" and then after that trace I receive the other trace "trace(xml.RutCoord[1].xSize);"

So it seems that the code continue to execute or excutes before the loaders eventlistener occurs.

Can someone please help me with this problem. I don't want to move all my code into the xmlLoad function because I'm going to add more loaders that reads other files later on and I will get a very nasty code if I start adding code into the load function.

It also seems like a terrible idea to add some sort of delay with a timer, I just want to wait until the function xmlLoad is finished until I continue to execute the rest of the code.

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadXML);
loader.load(new URLRequest("rutCoord.xml"));
var rutArray:Array =new Array();
var xml:XML;
function loadXML(e:Event):void
{
xml = new XML(e.target.data);
trace(xml.RutCoord[1].xSize);
for (var i:uint=0; i < xml.RutCoord.length(); i++) {
var tmpObject:Object = new Object();
tmpObject.xSize = xml.RutCoord[i].xSize;
rutArray.push(tmpObject);
}

}
trace(rutArray.length);

My Site Takes Too Long To View
I think my problem is that i am using a lot of images in JPEG format and i have compressed them but it still seems to be taking longer then i think it should. Now i think this is the problem and i am not really sure if that is even it. If someone could view it and give me some tips that would be greatly appreciated. www.uni-jetindustrialpipe.ca

Thanks

Read Xml File Takes To Long?
I have tried to use the xml loader but it doesn't work as I suspected.
I want to write a program that does the following:
1. I want to read data from a xml file and put some of the data into an array.
2. I want to initialize some other array and variables.
3. I want to use the data that I stored in the array when the data was loaded from the xml file
4. Then I want to move around objects with parameters that I got in the xml file.

My problem is that it seems that the xml loader takes a little bit to long time or something else is very wrong.
In the code below I read the xml file and call a function loadXML, I use a trace in this just to see when it executes.
After the loader declaration with its eventlistener I want to start using the array that is supposed to be filled in the loadXML function. But its here my prblem occurs. The data isn't filled in when I want to use it, in the trace that I use below it says that my array has length 0 "trace(rutArray.length);" and then after that trace I receive the other trace "trace(xml.RutCoord[1].xSize);"

So it seems that the code continue to execute or excutes before the loaders eventlistener occurs.

Can someone please help me with this problem. I don't want to move all my code into the xmlLoad function because I'm going to add more loaders that reads other files later on and I will get a very nasty code if I start adding code into the load function.

It also seems like a terrible idea to add some sort of delay with a timer, I just want to wait until the function xmlLoad is finished until I continue to execute the rest of the code.

Code:

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadXML);
loader.load(new URLRequest("rutCoord.xml"));
var rutArray:Array =new Array();
var xml:XML;
function loadXML(e:Event):void
{
xml = new XML(e.target.data);
trace(xml.RutCoord[1].xSize);
for (var i:uint=0; i < xml.RutCoord.length(); i++) {
var tmpObject:Object = new Object();
tmpObject.xSize = xml.RutCoord[i].xSize;
rutArray.push(tmpObject);
}
}
trace(rutArray.length);

How Long Does It Takes For A New Font To Be Loaded Into Flash?
When you install a new font into the system, how long does it take for it to appear in Flash?

Flash Takes A Long Time Publishing?
Why? Is there another app I can use to publish it?

Flash Menu Takes Long To Reload
Hi All

I have a static website which has flash based menus on the left hand side of the page. Every time a user clicks to load another page, the flash based menus also reload.

Is there any way the flash menus load only once and whenever a user clicks on the menu, only the target page text loads with the changed header. ? As it is taking time to re-load the menus on every page.

I've considered placing the menu sections in frames. Is this possible? If yes, what sort of implications will it have on the overall design of the website. If not, are they any alternatives to framing?

I appriciate any pertinent input on this.

Thank you

FLV Progressive Download - Takes Too Long Too Start Going Crazy
I have a small, satirical website: http://www.quantummirage.com/CSFH/home.html

And each page has a .flv set to progressively download. On all of them, there is a long pause before the video auto plays (the length seems to be related to the file size). I know the video should be starting much quicker, can anyone help me?

thanks!

[flash8] Timing And Displaying How Long A Game Takes
Hello all.

For my Advanced Higher Computing project at school, I decided to design and code a game in Flash. Bearing in mind, I'd never used flash before. Ever.

Well, everything has gone well, but I have a few problems with the last pieces of code.

I've used the
Code:
var starttime=getTimer()
code on the first scene
And
Code:
var elapstedTime=getTimer()-starttime;
on the last scene in order to time how long is taken to complete the game.

I'm not sure if this works properly, or how to then display it on the screen at the end of the game.

Help, please?

Thanks,
And sorry if the answer is really simple and obvious.
I've basically had to source my code from here, and other sites :]

Flash Takes To Long For People To See On A Phone Connections But Is Only 41 Kb - Can
http://207.44.238.14/~design.com/html/index.php

Hi that link above is to a theme that is being designed for my site.
I see the flash at the top but Im on dsl.

People on phone connection say it takes forever to load for them - some say it takes over 2 minutes

The person who made the flash said its only 41kb and that is pretty small.

Why is it takein so long for people to see it on a phone connection?

Is there anyway to make it load faster or an alternative?

Thanks
Any help would be very appreciated

Flash Takes A Long Time To Compile All Of A Sudden
When I export (just regular swf export) of my fla it takes a long time all of a sudden, maybe one or two minutes. I have been working in this fla for about a week and haven't done anything major to it today to make it take so long to compile (haven't added images or large code bases or anything).

I tried clearing the ASO and testing, but still it takes way longer than it should. Any suggestions?

I'm working in Flash Professional 8 and exporting for version 8. Thank you.

Why Does A Preloader Take As Long To Load 2nd Time Around
I've created a flash site (http://www.chrisdye.co.uk/home2) with links to swfs in seperate html pages, but when i go back to a page that has already loaded once i.e. the homepage, the preloader takes just as long to load the second time. I thought it should be quicker the second time round as it is stored in the computers cache?

I found a similar post 'only load preloader once' but didn't really understand the solution:

assign a variable to check if something is loaded already. For example

var clicked = false;

button.OnRelease = function() {
if(clicked){
//do nothing
}
else{
//load preloader.
//do other stuff.
var clicked = true;
}
}

How is this different from the preloader AS 'if bytes loaded' Could anyone shed some light on what to do please...

Preload Takes Long Time With Sound Export First Frame
preload takes a long time to appear when I try to export a sound file on first frame.

As far as you know, is there a way by accion scripts or any other mean to get preload moviclip at once?

Pepetex

My Flash Site Seems To Load Soooo Slow And Other Kinks
Hello. I have been reading these boards off and on for the past six months. I am So nervous to finally ask a question. I hope you will all be so nice and help me out.

I am working on creating an interactive photo album of our wedding pictures. I want it to be available on my website and I also want to burn it to disk so we can pop it into a dvd player and watch it too. I am trying to make it just like opening up a scrapbook.... with both pictures with captions and videos on some "pages" too. I have really gotten a great start BUT... I have been to similar sites and they seem to load so much faster than mine. Might I have a few problems with my preloader ?? Maybe its playing over and over unnecessarily? I would also like to make it more interesting but I am afraid it would then take too long to load!

I batched all my photos in Fireworks first. I did it with different specs in different "chapters"... so some pics look great and others look very rough. I was trying to compromise the quality of the pics for a faster load time, but it doesn't seem to have helped. I am not happy with the quality in some areas now.

Also the music loops back on top of itself and sounds awful the second time through? I think its happening because it starts again when it reaches the end and two versions are playing at once???? I have tried to fix it several times. Its very nerve wracking to listen to!! There are still lots of kinks. I want to further develop this project, but want to find out how to fix these issues before I go on to develop the other "chapters" of the scrapbook.

Here's the link http://www.Kastlekey.com/wedding/collection

Advance thanks to anyone who is willing to help me out! I really want this to be smoother than it is right now.

PS. This is the page within the collection that is closest to my final Hope. But the preloader just loops FOREVER. What can I do differently? http://www.kastlekey.com/wedding/bridesentrance.html
Here's the one that loads faster.
http://www.kastlekey.com/wedding/honeymoon.html