loading problems

[godonholiday]

hi, this is my first post so here goes.

i have created a sliding menu in flash to export to dreamweaver but when i try and view the page by itself it takes so long to load that its not worth wating for. how do i compress it or speed its loading time?????

[Billy T]

Hi God

How big is the swf? Is it full of audio or bitmaps or something?

[Tink]

do u have lots of bitmaps etc in ur sliding menu. u can't compress the swf or html which is published from ur file, but any bitmaps will bump up the file size considerably.

BLEEDA

[Tink]

sneaky that was billy

[godonholiday]

i have a few bitmaps in yes. so do i have to loose them???

or

is a pre loader needed?

thanks for the quick reply

[Billy T]

how big is it?

[godonholiday]

:p
hi, for some reason i seem to have forgotten how to change the size of the stage.???

ops and spell!

if you could help me out that would be great.







ps
thanks for the help with prev probs!!!

[Tink]

:) when billy asked what size it was he meant the file size, as in how many bytes. same with your bitmaps, we need to know how many bytes they are to see if it is them that is making it slooooooooooooooooow to load.

u change ur movie size in 'modify' then choose 'movie'

cheers

BLEEDA

[godonholiday]

I DECIDED TO SCRAP THE BITMAPS, IM WORKING IN A GROUP AND THEY WANTED PROGRESS NOT EXCUSES!!!

THANKS FOR THE HELP.

OUT

[Tink]

u don't have to scrap ur bitmaps because u can optimize them. u need a program like photoshop (although i find fireworks best).

u need to reduce the size and resolution of ur bitmaps so that the filesize it relatively small but the pic is still relatively clear. worth having a play with cause i always seem to need a bitmap here and there.

good luck

BLEEDA