annoying pause before flash movie
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- bry
sometimes, when i visit a page of mine that has flash on it, it pauses for several (~10) seconds before the page finishes loading, flash and all.
this happens in some cases and doesn't happen in others. so far i haven't been able to determine what causes it and when.
there's this one site i'm working on, and for most of the development process, it doesn't pause before the page loads. sometime after i started testing it after i uploaded it to the webspace, it started pausing.
does it have something to with my object/embed tags? does something in the movie cause the pause? if i can't figure this out, it is the users that will feel the brunt of this "glitch." thanks.
- neeko0
are you using a preloader?
- ok_static0
PRELOADER, man all you need is a P.R.E.L.O.A.D.E.R.
- neeko0
testify
- bry0
i already have a preloader -- the first frame is nice and light and nothing happens until the movie is loaded.
the pause that happens seems to be taking place before the flash movies even START to load, as if the browser's trying to figure out something for a while before it starts to even render the area where the flash movie is.
btw, when this happens, the whole browser effectively freezes for the entire time -- i can't open the browser menu or even close the browser before the pause finishes.
- bry0
maybe you might get a better idea by visiting my personal site which seems to have the same problem.
http://halogen.implosive.nu/main…
see if your browser temporarily freezes the first time you load the page.
- neeko0
yup... it sure did.
XML used to cause something like this problem in flash 5... the browser would freeze up until the entire file was loaded. one possible damage control solution was to keep the xml files small, and put the xml in a seperate .swf. i'm assuming that the broswer freeze issue was corrected with MX, cause they did a lot of work with the XML issues, but im not entirely sure.
other than that, im not real sure what might cause that problem.
- bry0
well i'm pretty sure it's not an xml-related problem... the most i'm doing in terms of data retrieval is just loading variables from a plain old text file (which i'm fairly confident is a pretty snag-free process).
can anybody else help me with this??
- lvl_thirteen0
don't put anything in frame 1. that might help...but loading variables from a text doc does slow it down, no matter how simple they are. make sure that you are not loading the variables up the same time as the preload is running.