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Load Movie Delay!!

I have a flash site and i have a small anying problem with it. The site is constructed of many small swf, so not to make the intial load take a long time. But the problem is that there is a delay from the time i click on the button to load the movie untill the time the preloader for the smaller movie starts. I have no idea whats going on during that time. I havn't seen it on other sites so is it me the problem or maybe my host which is slow(tripod). Any flash guru's out there please tell me!!!

http://arbel-designs.tripod.com

btw check out the site you'll like it.

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Idan Arbel
http://www.arbel-designs.com <-- It'll Blow Your Mind

yeah its tripod my man. how big is your site totall? if you want we can discuss hosting on my server.

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Currently its less than two megs i don't see it growing more than a meg any time soon.
If you could host me that would be great!.

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Idan Arbel
http://www.arbel-designs.com <-- It'll Blow Your Mind

yahi ahve that problem too. espescially when the files are uploaded on teh net. i dont think its tripod. more likely your internet connection.. if you try runnign the files on your harddrive - you'll notice no lag time at all.

what you can do to remedy is. i suggest you do this, have a movieclip acting as a preloader (that is one level higher than the loaded swf file).. but its visibility is set to false (invisible).

so whenever you press a button for specific movieclip to load up. you activate the preloader visibility to true (making it visible).

now in the swf file that you're loading into the main swf file, have a "if frame (whateverframe no) of scene (thesceneofthisswffile)"
inside the if statement, you have setproperty(preloader, visibility = 0) << something like that.

and it shoudl work fine - hope that helps.