Loading multiple SWFs across many pages in a Flash interface

I have a Flash AS3 interface that lets users go tto different
pages with the usualy back & next buttons. Each page they come
to loads in a page-specific XML file with content, and then
possibly graphic files and/or SWF files.
My question is this: When a user happens to quickly click the
next page button, they will gte each page to start loading its
assets. I believe that this would cause pages that they didn't
soend more that a fraction of a second on to continue loading in
the background. So if they quickly click through 20 pages, all 20
pages' assets are loading. Sounds like I have a bad design on my
hands!
Without designing/developing for it, is this the simple
result of loading in a file to Flash? Should I look into stopping
iles from dpownloading if a user leaves a page before it's fully
downloaded? Is that even possible?
Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated!

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I've just tried loading, unloading and then loading again same SWF with 2 library objects linked for AS3 export. It worked both on simulator and on device in debug mode. When I look inside swf it does contain AS3 code.
So is my swf a pure asset SWF? Or Intellij Idea 12 that I'm using does stripping automatically?
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i want to Load multiple swf play one by one when required, i mean, i want to reduce the loading time, so i cut my swf in to 2 portion, load both same time or load 2nd while 1st one playing and how can i show the 2nd one when first one finished?
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It will not work at all In web browser enviornment. If you considering to
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thewizzard24 wrote:
> I don't know if this is even possible, but what I'd like
to do is shift
> multiple objects, in multiple layers, across multiple
frames. The problem is
> that I built a complex animation as a movie symbol
within the root movie. It
> got so complex, however, that I'd like to just go ahead
and make it the main
> timeline for the root movie. But when I copy and paste
the frames from the
> symbol back out into the root timeline, the location is
wrong. Everything is in
> the correct location relative to each other element, but
wrong relative to the
> stage. Is there any way to grab everything up in all of
those layers and frames
> and just shift it all over to where it's supposed to be?
Or can I somehow shift
> the stage under it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

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