Loading flash movies in background

[qamar]

Hi,

I'm starting work on my own site which is going to have samples of my work. To avoid the visitor having to wait for the whole site to download I want to break the site up into small movies so that while one movie is being played the others can be downloading in the background.

Does anyone have any tips on the best way to do this.


Qamar

[Chas]

qamar, there's a few ways to do this one way is to load your sections into different levels, something like this...

b.t.w just using PHP to make it easier to follow

var x = 100;

// remove 1 from x
x--
// x = the level to load your movie into
loadMovie ("http://www.pathtoyourmovie.com/blah.swf", x); 

or you could load your sections into movie clips and make them invisible until needed...

_root.moviePloy._visible = false;

// moviePloy = the name of the mc your loading into
loadMovie("http://www.pathtoyourmovie.com/blah.swf", moviePloy); 

[qamar]

Thanks Chas,

I'm starting on it in about a weeks time. I'll give it a shot then.

Qamar