optimizing download speed

[jsbrashears]

I am trying to find a way to speed up download time over a 56k modem. I design online tutorials using flash and now my boss wants them to load just as fast with dial-up as it does with broadband. I have done every thing possible to speed it up. I have screen shots that take up a lot of space and I have optimized those files to help with load time. I have used a preloader but my boss is not happy with having to wait for the entire movie to load. Is there a way to load and play a scene and have the others loading instead of the entire movie loading all at once? I bet there is an easy solution to this and I am just over looking it!

[Billy T]

do a search for sequential preloader

[crabcake]

You can just test to see if the first visible frame is loaded and then allow them to move to that frame once it is done.

if(_root._framesloaded >= your start frame here){
gotoAndStop(your start frame here);
}

Your boss needs to realize, however, that you can't have it all on the web. If you are going to have a lot of screenshots, then you will have a long download time. This is not a CD-ROM, but a technology based upon dynamic transmission of information. A 56K modem will not behave like broadband, and that is something one has to accept. I've been working in the web since 1995, with Flash since 1998, and web-based training since 1999. I've never heard of someone making that sort of demand before, because the technology just won't allow it.