Loading times effect movie performance

How can I speed up the loading time of my website for viewers so my
buttons work properly ?
If you click on the 2nd and 3rd instance of a button on my opening page too quickly,
which navigate to later parts of the movie, the buttons don't work properly and you
get a message "error #2004 incomplete load". If you wait 10 or 15 seconds
(depending on the system) the buttons work properly.
Will compressing my movie when publishing the .swf speed up loading time for the
web viewer or just degrade my file ?
Thanks to anyone who might have some input on this
particular question.
Fred... (fredhughesdesign.com)

The compress setting in the publish settings is safe to use -- if that is the one you are asking about. It just compresses the size of the swf file with a lossless compression. So that is one thing you can do.
Another is that you could add a preloader -- some code that doesn't let the site actually start working until the whole thing is loaded. Usually a preloader shows some interesting animation to indicate to the user how long they will have to wait. If you are certain that you content downloads in about 10 or 15 seconds that is probably pretty good.
If the file gets much bigger than that you might want to look into putting some of the assets into external files and doing dynamic loading.
To do a short preloader add a frame at the beginning of your timeline and add this code"
stop();
this.onEnterFrame=function(){
var bl:Number=this.getBytesLoaded();
var bt:Number=this.getBytesTotal();
var percent:Number=100*bl/bt
if(bl==bt && bl>40){
delete this.onEnterFrame;
this.gotoAndPLay(2);
You could add some little animated movieclip to that frame which would keep running and provide some visual "eyecandy" while the user waits. But you will want to keep that artwork simple. All the content of frame 1 must download before anything can start running. That will just make it stay on. If you have a lot of components in the library or many other things set to export for actionscript you might also have a long delay.
Or you might want to do some kind of code to make the animation. Often that will have a smaller footprint.

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Fatenah wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> My group created Captivate training modules, published
them as flash files
> with SCORM tagging, and are working with our LMS team to
view how the modules
> play within the LMS. Unfortunately we are running into
loading time issues
> with our movies. In my office I have a T1 line and I
still have to wait
> several minutes before our movies begin to play.
>
> Once the moduleas are loaded they play fine. It's just
the load time that I'm
> concerned about.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what my group can
attempt to bring down
> these loading times? As of now all we have are our
modules published as swf
> files loaded into the LMS.
>
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance.
>
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Dennisvr wrote:
I'm looking for
(simple) ways to improve the loading times in a Linux LabVIEW
executable. We're using a low performance, low cost CPU board, and
loading times are terrible. The CPU is capable of doing everything
after the application is loaded, but takes forever to get there. One
of the problems is the size of the executable, that grows everytime you
just look at it. Are there ways to create smaller executables? It runs
from a Compact Flash card, which is ofcourse much slower than hard disk. Another
problem is a dynamic vi, that is started for every TCP connection that
connects to the application. It takes a long time to load, and
connecting too fast can even effectively hang up the system. Starting a
handler task takes about half a second, up to a few seconds for the
first task. We're using the LabVIEW 7.1 runtime, system is a 300 MHz cyrix SBC, running from a Compact Flash.
I'm
not sure about the first part of your question. LabVIEW is highly
binary and does a lot of memory allocations before even one VI is ready
to be started. So maybe the memory manager is a problem. Another issue
is that the Macintosh like resource file format that is used by LabVIEW to store its VIs etc. results in
lots and lots of individual disk accesses with a rther random like
character inside a single file. So if you can configure the read
caching of your disk to use more memory this may significantly increase
the speed of loading LabVIEW VIs or applications.
And finally spawning VIs through VI server is a rather costly operation
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thread. A much better way would be to avoid spawning subVIs altogether
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example. It is a little extra work to work with this shift register
architecture but it will not have the issues of long load times for
every new TCP/IP connection coming in.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Message Edited by rolfk on 03-07-2006 06:33 PM
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CIT Engineering Netherlands
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