Two flash questions

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Joined: Jun 1999

I have two flash questions:

Firstly, I have seen all thse preloaders out there, and what do they do. How does flash load...does it load all at once, loads a scene at a time, or does it load streaming. How can I make it load each of these ways (i.e.-how can I make it load a scene at a time(i.e.-playing the previous scene and loading the next one)).

Secondly, I imported a gif and png file into flash. Whenever I publish these files, the image seems to be converted to jpg format (although it is really flash format, it is jpg quality). How do I make it stay witht he format I imported it as?

Thanx,
Ryan

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Joined: Jun 1999

First off the image is .jpg format, that is how flash compresses them. You can't keep them as any other format.

Flash is downloaded a frame at a time. In the flash preloader movie it evaluates the download and the preloader plays frame by frame according to the download progress.

Hope that clears it up for you.
VulKen

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can you explain the preloader and how i works in more laymens terms, I don't understand.

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Joined: Dec 1999

There is a tutorial on preloading a flash movie on my site:
http://www.were-here.com

It is under the tutorials section, and you can pick it apart if you wish

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