Preloading movies....

[yoonka]

I thought that if I had a seperate movie and then embedded ("packing movies") it into my navigation one it would slow down load up time but improve performance and get away from having to devise a preloading element. This ahsn't prove to be true.. any ideas?

Thx

yoonka

[SWFKit]

Yes, the packed movies will slow down the load up time for the app needs to extract them to a temporary folder before the movies can be loaded into the Flash Player. The packed movies are extracted to a temporary foder before the window appears.

For the movies are on disk and don't need to be downloaded from internet, it almost takes no time to load them into the Flash Player.

The packed attachments are processed in another way: SWFKit only extracts them in method "getAdditionalFile". That is to say, you can get them on demand.

[yoonka]

do I need to put the script in the "initialize" section?

[SWFKit]

Do you mean 'getAdditionalFile'? You can call it before you need the attached file.

Providing you have attached a mp3 file "my.mp3" and you want to load it by clicking a button.

on (release)
{
fscommand("FFish_Run", "loadmp3");
}

in "loadmp3"

getAdditonalFile("my.mp3");
...

Of course you can call it without parameters in "initialize" script, it will extract all additional files at once.