preloaders
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- mcLeod
im curious... (btw im a designer not a programmer). in preloaders where it states what exactly is being loaded (i.e. loading content, audio, nav, blah..) is that actually telling whats being loaded or is it just for show?
get that?
- stewart0
depends on the programmer...
- unfittoprint0
'btw im a designer not a programmer'. programming is good for you, it only makes you stronger...
anyway, regrading the preloading thing. A lot of times it's just for show (the preloading is actually loading the whole thing, not sections). With the more advanced stuff one may find more useful to load only some sections of a project, there you might want (or not) to show the user what part is being loaded. but that rarely is the case.
- mcLeod0
by education, im a designer. not to say i dont know any programming, i just dont know a lot. i can hold my own with actionscript, html and basics of some others. it has helped me immensely and im always looking to learn more.
i was curious as to whether it was possible to load certain sections individually and how they have to be set up to do that. if it is a large site what are the benefits over loading the whole thing at once? any?
- Rickbass0
You can certainly load different types of content at different times and reflect that in your preloader. If you use shared library things such as fonts or sounds, plus dynamic things such as movies, jpegs, mp3s and XML, you can just call them when you need them.
Separating your content like this is the key to getting the framework of the movie loaded as quickly as possible and users into the site ASAP.
- ********0
you could do a root_swf and then bring in others, all depends on how you want to shake it. :)