Preloading Flash using JavaScript
What I want to do is have my index page preload a flash movie into the cache in the background so that when the visitor goes to the flash page it is already downloaded.
I AM NOT talking about making a short flash preload movie that plays while the rest of the movie loads.
I can easily do this with a .jpg or .gif image using Dreamweaver (I'm not a real good coder). For instance if I preload a huge 500k .jpg from the very light index page it's ready when the user clicks on the next page.
What I tried to do was alter the Dreamweaver code for Object instead of Image but I failed. I bet there is an easy way to do this but as I said I'm not a great coder.
Hugh Jass posted this at 00:15 — 29th April 2001.
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Joined: Oct 2000
Hi Doren,
if you wanted to load a jpg on page 1, ready for use on page 2
you would add it to page 1 as a '1 x 1 pixel image' like this:
I've never used flash but just try adding something like:
(or whatever the flash equivalent is.) to page 1
Hugh
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