movie 386kb - preloading 689kb

[marilou]

Hi everyone,

I am using a preloader for my main movie which is 386kb and loads other external movies -about 18- but when it plays, it shows that it is preloading 689... Does this has to do with the external files? I mean, is it possible the preloader to try to load the external files also?


thanx in advance

[Morg]

How big is the preloader?

[marilou]

not even 10 kb...

u can check it here www.montenapoleone.gr
u might not see the problem if u don't have a dial up connection

thanx by the way for your reply

[Morg]

hmmm, I rally cant be sure. It seemed to load a lot of data (like you said)

Maybe theres an image or something lying around on your stage,.,?

PS, the font on your time is not embedded.

[marilou]

this movie is connected to the database so I am using xml and asp (i don't know if this is helpful)... I don't know if this confuses the preloader and try to loads these elements as well but if u see it in a dial up connection nothing works right and I don't know what else to do!!
there isn't any image lying on the stage accept the big one...


By the way, how do I make the fonts embedded?
thx

[Morg]

In your properties toolbar, click on Embed and then click on Basic Latin. Remember to have the font highlighted.

It could be that the database is passing additional information, yes.... It will definately load whatever is in there. How big are the chucnks of data that gets sent?

[marilou]

The movie loads text and images (half of the buttons work dynamically) not extremely a lot but later my client will add more in the database so if now plays like that imagine later...

About the fonts...
Do I embed only the dynamic text or all the text in my movie?

[Morg]

aaahhh... Ok, so you have buttons that have LInkage names in the library? That could be whats pushing the file size up. If you attach something to the stage dynamically, Flash has to export that symbol to the first frame so that it is ready when you attach it.

As for the embedding, yes, just that one should be fine. Highlight the dynamic textbox, click Embed Fonts, and then Basic Latin. Should do the trick.

[marilou]

so basically there is nothing I could do to reduce the problem?
Do u have any suggestions?

thx a lot

[Morg]

Not really... Unless you optimise it somewhat. Maybe re-export your JPGs, make sure that any unnecesary file are unlinked... You could look into externalising as much of it as you can. Other than that, I cant really say for sure. Sorry.

Good luck!

[marilou]

Sorry for not replying... wasn't here..

thanx a lot