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Large Images / Alfa Tween / Slow Slow Slow... Help Please
I'm working on a site at the moment and one of the main eyecatchers is there is a slideshow-type of animation running in the background the whole time.

There's a dozen (large in pixels, but not in kb) .jpgs that have a minute long fade between images, a few seconds pause and then onto the next fade.

I've tried just making a normal alfa tween, I've tried making the slideshow as a seperate .swf, I've tried dynamic images with .xml, I've even tried making the .fla background transparent and making the slideshow on the html page using javascript.

But all make the site run very slowly. Text scrolling is slow, short rollover animations are slow, etc. etc.

My question is: Is there a way of making a super light alfa tween with large images?

99% of the threads regarding slideshows here at Flashkit have many views but no replies. I need help, and soon. Many many thanx to anyone that can point me in the right (or any) direction.

Slow Loading
Hey
I am a beginner with flash. I started making a simple quiz with flash. I did not use any pictures or anything that would take up very much space or anyhting, but for some reason it takes about a minute to load just the one question with a 14.4 modem. What am I doing wrong?

Tony

Slow Loading
OK I have created an intro for my web site.

Through dreamweaver I have attacted the flash piece onto index.html and everything is working fine on preview.

I have loaded it onto the web and it takes ages to load the page.

How can I speed the loading time up. It's not very big as in image and I have used layers on the web page so It is only a relative small.

Loading Too Slow
http://www.johnnutterglass.com
I have changed this web site, so probably can't see anything.. BUT, here is the problem..hope someone can help 1) I have 2 clips. The first containes 14 images, which I changed to a graph. 2) The clip takes forever to load, even with a pre-loader. I mean takes "forever".
3) On the time line (first frame) I have the main.. pre-loader , next frame is the home page then"gallery" MC , when you click on the gallery button on the home page you jump to gallery MC, you have to wait for a lifetime to see it! Inside the gallery MC, I have a pre-loader in there as well..(thinking that will speed it up..NOT!)
4) I was told to break it up.. how? I am so confused...
I have 3 clips, -the gallery, the arch, and bio. The gallery and arch each take forever because of the images.. what to do???
Have the script book, but can't seem to find exactly what I need.. if you need to see the actual work, I can show you if this just confused the ? outta ya!
if anybody out there can help me.. would be much appreciated.. I am pulling my hair out.

Slow Loading
i finally got a preloader working, but now it's just discouraging because you can see that it's going to take ten minutes to load. i have a couple of songs and a short video on it, so i want to be able to load the first song, then as the first song is playing load the second song, then load the video when you click the video link. here's the site, be patient while it's loading:

http://nap.parry.org/images/portfolio.html

also, if you have any suggestions to make it more interesting, that would be great too.

thanks,
jason

Loading Slow?
Hello,

I have a flash file with an Actionscript page, which is taking a while to load??? Do not understand why? Is there anything I can do to make it load faster? It has a number of text boxes and dropdowns.

Thanks

Slow Loading
So Ive made a flash website and uploaded it and all that good stuff BUT IT LOADS REALLY FREAKING SLOW, like REALLYREALLYREALY slow.

And I don't know enough about the mechanics of the program to change it to make it faster, so any help would be much appreciated!

The site is on freewebs currently...

Click Here!

Slow Loading XML?
Hi, I have been trying to resolve this problem for some time now. What I have here is a dynamic textbox which is loading some XML into it. My problem is the load time. It takes time to load a simple 12kb XML file. This should happen instantly correct? I was able to make it a bit faster by publishing with player 8 but there is still some pause/delay. Please take a look at the attached examples. Thanks.

[F8] Slow Loading
http://www.richgraphicdesigns.com/Ar...ntitled-5.html

I have this gallery that pops up in a new window which is fine, but it makes the audio and movement on the parent page slow sometimes.
I would like to have the gallery open in the main movie like the contact and about us page.
I am using
_root.emptyMain.loadMovie("./simpleviewer/FauxFinishes/viewer.swf");
to try and load the gallery. The fame loads but it says gallery not found. I'm stuck because I like the popup window, but not at the expense of slow loading. Is anyone finding the loading to be slow or is it just on my local machine?

Thanks

Slow Loading...
Ok, I have 2 slideshows on a site. Right now I'm loading all the image in the first place. However, the loading time is too long because there were 13 images in the first one, and 35 images in the second one, and they add up to about 2.5 mb. The slide show is just a simple fade in and fade out. Is there any way to increase the speed of loading?

I mean, I don't want to break the user experience by having a loading bar for every image...
Is there anyway to do it like buffering; loading the first few images, and start the slide show, and then keep loading other images in the background?

Slow Loading.
Hello out there.
I have some problems with my site.

First: I have two movies loading into different empty clips. The problem is when I test my site over the web server. The loading time is VERY long , even when the movies are small in size and Im on a cable. What could be the problem?

Second: One of the movies loaded Loads dynamic text from a .txt file. On this movie my preloader dont show like on the other movies that only include a picture. The scripts I use for the preloaders are

bytes_loaded = Math.round(getBytesLoaded());
bytes_total = Math.round(getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total;
loadBar._width = getPercent*100;
loadText = Math.round(getPercent*100)+"%";
if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total) {
gotoAndPlay(3);
}

Can anyone help me out?

The site adress is http://www.sondrehylland.com

Slow In Loading
hi,
i have a short mpg movie which i want to play on my flash website.
I found that after embedding the mpg to flash, loading speed is extremely slow.
how can i make my flash site load faster?

Slow Loading
Hi,
I would like to know if you can tell me the easier way I can load this site www.jakertanner.com faster. Because I am using Flash MX 2004 forms and slides, the main file is big 2313kb. I have tried creating a preloaded but for some reason I don't get it to work. Any suggestions?? Please... and thanks a lot!

Jana

XML Loading With Php Is Slow
I'm loading XML cross domain and it works but it's really slow, or sometimes it never load...

Code:
system.usecodepage=false;
c = new XML();
t = new LoadVars();
c.ignoreWhite = true;
t.load("/pages/fl_php/countfeed.php");
c.load("/pages/fl_php/proxy.php");
c.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
showValues();
}
};
stop();
t.load("/pages/fl_php/countfeed.php"); is my way counting the headlines and its an easy way(insecure) to knowing how many headlines I can show.

I'm using Macromedias tip to load XML crossdomain

PHP Code:

<?php$dataURL = "http://www.newsmachine.com/external/xml_feed.xml";readfile($dataURL);?>

I'm I doing something wrong and how can i make sure that the XML is loaded everytime?! Sometimes I have to click the link in flash to reload the page that shows the XML to get the XML to load...

Help!

Loading Slow
Hi,
I created a simple web site using flash 8. The problem is that the SWF file is 6 MB size.so it loads a bit late..
Is there any software or method that makes my swf file size smaller ?

Thanks

Slow Loading
My question is how can I increase the loading speed of my swf file? I have a file that will load very slowly on dial in computers

Loading Slow On Mac
hi there
does anybody has an idea, why mc that are loaded into another base-movie become very slow on mac?
the loading goes quite fast (t1 connection), but the the loaded and the base-movie are slowed down.
if I have some event-sounds in the movies, they are esspecially delayed.
the movies just seem to wait for something.

is it as well possible, that performance slows loading down?

thanks a lot
marcel

Slow Loading Page
I have just finished a skeleton version of my first web site.

http://www.gpad.co.uk

The main swf file is 320KB. It has a loading bar starting in frame 1. However the web page loads up for a good 30-40 seconds before the loading bar starts up. How is this? Is it my loading bar, or my web server?

Gareth

the code:

//Frame1
ifFrameLoaded (35) {
gotoAndPlay (10);
}

//Frame2
gotoAndPlay (1);

[Edited by gjmediastudent on 04-29-2002 at 04:19 PM]

Slow Loading External Txt
I made a basic news scroller, but it takes kind of a long time for the text to finally display. It eventually does, but not instantly.

In the flash player on my it works perfectly, but on the web it's kinda slow. Can anyone help me speed this up. I just sits at the root with the swf.

loadVariablesNum("NewsScrollerb.txt", 0);

Loading Swf Slow Online
hi! I'm making a flashsite which loads 5 different swfs on top of the main movie. I'm testing it online. The load movie works just fine but when I navigate the buttons quickly (before the movies finish loading), the swfs somehow get stuck & don't load...and I would have to reclick the button to load a link. Unlike the 2advanced site, you can navigate the links quickly even before each swf finishes loading and the movies load immediately...My code looks like this: Appreciate it if anyone can help...thanx!

on (release) {
targetx = 55;
tellTarget ("gradient") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
unloadMovieNum(2);
unloadMovieNum(3);
unloadMovieNum(4);
unloadMovieNum(5);
swfToLoad = "main.swf";
loadSWF = setInterval(getSWF, 100, swfToLoad);
function getSWF(swfToLoad) {
loadMovieNum(swfToLoad, 1);
clearInterval(loadSWF);
}
}

Slow Loading Swf File
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

Slow Loading Flashcomponents
Hello, I am having a problem with the slow peformance of flash components. I am actually mainly refering to director mx 2004, because it is what I am currently using for my project, but I have this exact problem in flash mx 2004. My project that I am making has several frames that contain like 15 buttons that are flash components. Whenever I run the playhead over these frames, their is a extreme amount of lag to load this frame. Now in director, everything is realtime as you view it on stage, so I am having a dificult time working on my project. But when I compile it, which I has created somewhat the same project in flash and director, into a projector file, whenever I get to that frame, their is a large amount of lag before it completly loads that frame. Im creating a multimedia program and this kind of slow peformance to load each part of the program is creating a large problem. Now, it would be nice to know of a tweak or something that I can do to ease up on this slow peformace, but if I really had to, I could create some custom buttons. But the problem consists when I add a treeview to my project or a list, which are both flash components, and when its in the default size, it loads fairly nice, but when I stretch it to fill the screen, it does the same exact thing as the buttons do, it loads very slow. Now, my computer is very fast, its a 2.1ghz, 1gb of ram, so I dont see whats the problem. So my question is, is their any way to preload all of this when the program loads(it will be a windows projector), so when the parts of the program that have flash components are accessed over and over, they load very quick? I wouldnt mind a small wait for it to preload at startup of the program. Or, is their anything to tweak or fix this problem with flash components? If someone could help me fix this problem, it would be great.

Slow Loading .swfs
When I click on each button on my main page, it loads an .swf file for each page.

Each page takes about a 1-2 second delay before it actually loads.

It doesn't do this on my computer offline, and online I'm on a fast connection.

I also have a preloader for the main timeline (if that matters).
Each page is approx. 50 kb.

My script is using "on release", but I also tried it "on press".

This is what I'm using:

on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie
("photos03.swf");
}

Is there any way to fix this?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Slow Loading .swf Files
I have extremely slow loading .swf files and I don't understand why.

I've put a preloader at the beginning for each .swf loading, but with it, it just doesn't work the way I would like it to.

I tried removing the preloaders just to see if that helped, but it doesn't.

Each file loads at approximately 6-9 seconds after each respective button is clicked and the .swf files loading range from about 50kb to 350kb.

Should a file this size take this long to load?

I'm on a broadband connection and I've had more than one person tell me (on different fast connections) that it's slow.

Any help on this problem is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Slow Loading Swfs
Hi -

I'm sortof a newbie.. I just finished my portfolio site and I can't figure out why it's taking soooo long to load everything.

I went thru and resized images, optimized for web, included preloader for the main page, optimized the sound making it mono 32khz 8 bit mono mp3 compression, published settings etc.

I'm obviously doing something wrong... I just can't figure out what. The total size for the entire site is 3.5 mb so it's not like it's huge..

Please help!

visit..

http://www.yvonneheine.com

Thanks!

Yvonne

Very Slow Loading Movies - Please Help
Hello,

I am building a site which relies heavily on content movies being loaded into a main movie (the navigation). Each of the content movies contains a simple preloader (text showing the % that is loaded). The site works well when viewed offline (with simulated loading in the flash player).

However when I post it to a site and view it online the movies take a long time to load, sometimes the preloader doesn't appear until 50% of the movie is loaded and the screen is left blank.

View the site here:
http://www.toucandesign.co.uk/client...ign/flash.html

The content movies are loaded from an XML menu using the load movie behaviour (MX 2004) and vary in size from 20kb to 140kb (so to my reckoning this isn't what is causing the delay?). The preloader is also very simple so shouldn't take a long time to appear.

Can anyone suggest any reasons for this happening or any possible solutions? I can provide source files / actionscript if anyone is interested!

I am supposed to be launching the site at the end of the week so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your time,

Tim

Slow Loading Movies - Please Help
Hi,

(I know I have posted quite a few times recently but my deadline is less than 24 hours away and I am in a bit of trouble and am not sure what else to do ...)

I am making a (fairly simple) site which uses an XML menu to load movies.

http://www.toucandesign.co.uk/online/flash.html

For some reason, it takes a few seconds before the preloader for the main menu even appears (even though the whole movie is less than 80kb) - leaving the user with a blank screen - I have tried everything I can think of to get this to appear more quickly but have run out of ideas - if anyone can suggest anything I would be very grateful!

Also when I try to load content (navigate to portfolio > corporate identity) using a simple load movie command from the XML, these movies load very slowly (again with a blank screen before the preloader appears).

I have attached a simplified version of the site as a .zip here including all source code - if anyone could have a look at this and see what is causing all these delays that would be amazing.

Thanks loads for your time (and previous help!)

All the best,

Tim

Preloaders, Slow Loading
i am developing a flash site for a friend of mine who is an artist. the site contains tons of images. i am using flash cs3. i have writen the most basic action script ever for the site. tonight i added a preloader for the page which is new to me. however, i feel like the site loads so slow i was wondering if anyone can tell me what i can do (that is simple enough for me to pull off) to make the site load in a reasonable amount of time.
thanks!

Web Site Loading Slow
Hi,
I created a simple web site using flash 8. The problem is that the SWF file is 6 MB size.so it loads a bit late..
Is there any software or method that makes my swf file size smaller so that it loads faster?

Thanks

[CS3] Slow Loading Images
I'm using Flash CS3/Actionscript 3 on a site and I've found I'm in a bit over my head.

The site is up and working but with two major problems:

1 - The images take a very long time to load when selected.
2 - Occasionally when switching between the different sections some of the buttons will go missing (I've noticed this most often repeats from going from Vistas to Vancouver and Vancouver to Coastal, but there doesn't seem to be a pattern)

http://www.karlherrmann.com/natureseries/index.html

I would think the first problem is simply that it takes a while for the image to download, but if this were the case, is there any way to start the images loading once the site goes up to reduce this time?

The second issue is completely puzzling to me. When testing hitting the text button I'm usually met with the error message:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at main_fla::MainTimeline/main_fla::frame9()

I'm at a loss as to why this is.

I've attached a text file of the code for the main page and 'Frame 9.' Frame 9 has the largest number of buttons (19) and so most commonly gets the error message. (I can e-mail the full flash file but it's too large to attach to this message)

Any help along these lines would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Slow Site Loading
When I use some pretty flash effects for my site, it doesn't load as smoothly when you get to the site. The site actually freezes for about 5 seconds then begins to load everything else on the site up.

I've seen other sites with flash effects in them and they load nice and smoothly compared to mine.

Could anyone help a lil?

Slow Loading Problem
I've made a site with various pages that load movie clips, and every page loads fine except one. The site is here:

http://www.expression.edu/~amach/

For some reason, the "Biography" page loads really slowly on my Mac. When I test it on a PC, it loads fine. The fla file is set at 20 fps. Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks...

Slow Loading Movies - Please Help
Hi,

(I know I have posted quite a few times recently but my deadline is less than 24 hours away and I am in a bit of trouble and am not sure what else to do, ANY help would be great ...)

I am making a (fairly simple) site which uses an XML menu to load movies.

http://www.toucandesign.co.uk/online/flash.html

For some reason, it takes a few seconds before the preloader for the main menu even appears (even though the whole movie is less than 80kb) - leaving the user with a blank screen - I have tried everything I can think of to get this to appear more quickly but have run out of ideas - if anyone can suggest anything I would be very grateful!

Also when I try to load content (navigate to portfolio > corporate identity) using a simple load movie command from the XML, these movies load very slowly (again with a blank screen before the preloader appears).

I have posted a simplified version of the site as a .zip here
http://www.toucandesign.co.uk/offline.zip
including all source code - if anyone could have a look at this and see what is causing all these delays that would be amazing.

Thanks loads for your time (and previous help!)

All the best,

Tim

Move Loading Slow
Hi guys please check out my site emoney designs. I am having a problem with my .flv movies. If you go to my site go to portfolio, then commercials. Click on any of the commercials they are really choppy and slow. The way I created these is by taking the original hi-rez quicktime and exported it to .flv files. Then I imported the .flv file into flash 8 and used the url link to another file on my site. Is this the correct way to do it? Is there a way for me to check the .flv files to make sure they exported out of quicktime ok? Also if you have any comments on the site they are welcome.

Thanks, Erik

Content Loading Slow
I have an issue when publishing my movie in virtual mode. IT TAKES FOREVER!! By attaching this code can anyone see why this movie takes such a long time to load??? The total size is 30k and loads external swf's but it takes a while to load those other smaller swfs' any ideas?

Attach Code

stop();
//BUTTONS START HERE*****************************************************************************************************************
//variables for work
var myrequest1:URLRequest = new URLRequest("webwork.swf");
var myloader1:Loader = new Loader ();
myloader1.load(myrequest1);
stage.addChild(myloader1);
myloader1.x=70;
myloader1.y=168;

//Web Button Listeners
webwork_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,reportDownWebClick);
function reportDownWebClick(event:MouseEvent){
var myrequest1:URLRequest = new URLRequest("webwork.swf");
myloader1.load(myrequest1);
}

cdrom_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, reportDownCdRomClick);
function reportDownCdRomClick(event:MouseEvent){
var myrequest2:URLRequest = new URLRequest("xml2.swf");
myloader1.load(myrequest2);
}

photo_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, reportDownPhotoClick);
function reportDownPhotoClick(event:MouseEvent){
var myrequest3:URLRequest = new URLRequest("webwork.swf");
myloader1.load(myrequest3);
}

design_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, reportDownDesignClick);
function reportDownDesignClick(event:MouseEvent){
var myrequest4:URLRequest = new URLRequest("xml2.swf");
myloader1.load(myrequest4);
}

//launch_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, reportLaunchButtonClick);

//Plugin Rollover
plugin_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, pluginMouseOver);
function pluginMouseOver(event:MouseEvent):void {
plugin_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
}
plugin_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, pluginMouseOut);
function pluginMouseOut(event:MouseEvent):void {
plugin_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
}

//Contact Button/Rollover
contact_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, contactMouseOver);
function contactMouseOver(event:MouseEvent):void {
contact_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
}
contact_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, contactMouseOut);
function contactMouseOut(event:MouseEvent):void {
contact_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
}

//Resume Button/Rollover
resume_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, resumeMouseOver);
function resumeMouseOver(event:MouseEvent):void {
resume_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
}
resume_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, resumeMouseOut);
function resumeMouseOut(event:MouseEvent):void {
resume_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
}

//listener for click on plugins
plugin_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, pluginClick);
function pluginClick(event:MouseEvent):void {
var myrequest6:URLRequest = new URLRequest("plugins.swf");
myloader1.load(myrequest6);
}

// listener for clicking on contact button
contact_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, contactClick);
var contactURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("contact.swf");
function contactClick(event:MouseEvent):void {
var myrequest5:URLRequest = new URLRequest("contact.swf");
myloader1.load(myrequest5);
}

Slow Loading Process
Is there a way to speed up the loading of Flash MX 2004. 24 seconds seems rather excessive to me.

In Photoshop, you can put a ~ in front of plug-ins to ignore them. I was wondering if there was anything that could be removed or disabled in Flash to speed up the process ?

Probably a naive question but it's worth a try !

Geoff

Very Slow Loading Pages
I am building a website similar to www.benwisch.com
but for some reason my site is very slow. My main page is over 9 millions bytes in size. I compressed the files as per instructions on this page. How can I make my page load really fast?

My page does not have the albums yet, but I had tried different options and the albums take a long time to load as well.

Also, if you click on the link Studio the picture will take a long time to load the first time(I used an external swf to load this page). I have read so much about loading time but I don't find any where the answer to make my pages work fast.

The website I am building is at www.janav.com

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Jana

Slow Loading Of Movie
I made a website for a photographer in Flash Mx, (www.yossisudri.com) and the only problem I have is that the picture galleries load too slow. The pictures are in different swf movies and the thumbnails load those movies. I have tried to make the jpegs as small as possible.. but it is still slow..
can somebody help me to compress that?
thank you!

Slow Loading -=> Compression?
hey people. I have a website @ http://www32.brinkster.com/b3site. This website works fine, but it has one problem (so it doesn't work fine ). The intro loads pretty fast I think. And also the main page has a short loading time. But the different pages (seperate movies), take a long time to load. At least, sometimes they do. I am reading something about compression all around this forum. I don't really know anything about it, but could it help shorten these load times for the small movies, which are actually quite small.

Slow Loading On Flash
hi..all

i am new to be in Flash.My flash movie is too slow.how can i fix it?
any suggestion?

New To Flash / Loading Way Too Slow
We are new to flash on our web sites at TN420 and been using "In A Flash" free trail version to build flash files and upload to our web site server from our PC's using FTP.
These flash file contain both images and MP3 backgroud music. If any one can check out the below link and give us an idea of who we may create effective flash file we would greatly appreciate it. Thanks Mcdaddy

http://www.tn420.org/tn420/main.htm

Site Loading Really Slow
I've been at this for the last 2 days and I can't figure out why this is happening. I built this site http://www.blueprintglobal.com and at home when i view it, it loads fairly quickly (approx. 3-4 sec each page) but at work the site is loading really really slow (approx. 2-3 mins each page). Im on wireless on both home and work, and i've had a few people tested it out for me, but it's really mixed responses, it's either it loads really fast or really really slow.

I'm stumped.

Each page is approx 150kb in size, so I'm thinking that's not very big. Can someone help me please???!

Slow Loading

my flash video loads very slowly because it contains 2 small videos. So I put these videos into seperate SWF files and had them linked to a loader. But now once the videos load they play very slowly. Is it the loader doing this? Help

my flash video loads very slowly because it contains 2 small videos. So I put these videos into seperate SWF files and had them linked to a loader. But now once the videos load they play very slowly. Is it the loader doing this?

Help