flash help!!
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- chilaquil
Good afternoon boys and girls:
I'm really hoping someone can help me out with this:
Take a look at this site...
http://www.amivitale.com/main.ht…
Beautiful site. I'm sure many of you had probably seen it already. Notice how in the galleries, the way the pictures load, is a little different. You visit a gallery, and the thumnails indicate the loading stage of the image. However, if you're for example viewing image #1, image #2,3,4,5 are preloading already, without you having to click on each thumbnail for that image to start preloading. So the result is that the site doesn't waste anytime, nor does it wait for you to click on something to start preloading. It's preloading something all the time. This makes the site feel like everything loads extremely fast even without broadband.
Well, I'm doing a site, that has similar features. It's several galleries of images and I'd like to preload them the same way. Does anyone know a sure way of doing it? Any help will be seriously appreciated.
THANKS!!
- londonBoy0
This effect can be achieved by setting up a sequential preloader. For example, in you preloader script, dictate that once say 60% of the swf has been loaded, it should load the next movie.
In order for the subsequent movies not playing, you need to "park" the file. That is to say, create an empty frame andn label it "park". The final stages of your preloader script would look something like this:
if(bytesLoaded == bytesTotal){
gotoAndStop("park");
}Then on your gallery buttons, you action will simply have to tell the movie to start playing and not loadMovie as it has already been caches - parked!
If you need me to explain more, email me.
- jevad0
that site is awesome - as is her work - stunning photo journalism....
- lovaboy0
yeah i met her about a year ago. amazing woman and a pretty cavalier lifestyle -apparently she comes up with an idea for a photo series, flies off and shoots it, then scouts around for someone to buy the photos. she and the guy who made the site - jayson singe of www.neonsky.com - graduated from the same school as me, the school of journalism in chapel hill, NC. he was featured in the first new master of flash book, although the neonsky site is rather old now...time for an update, perhaps?
- chilaquil0
londonboy, thank you VERY much. I figured out a completely (more primitive) different way of doing it, but yours is probably better.
I appreciate the help and the invitation to email you and bother you further. Lucky for you, that may not be necessary.
As far as Ami's work, it is awesome... Seems kinda risky to take all those photos and hope that someone will buy them (without them being comissioned first). But I guess it has worked for her. Maybe I think it's risky because I'm awful at selling anything. I couldn't sell my soul to the devil if I wanted to...