Pre-loader issues in captivate 5.5

Question

HI guys
i have a 1026x768  captivate file with around 150 slides when compiled to medium compression it is around 7mb
it dosnt have any questions pools and no audio, it does have some  progessive flvs and a few advanced actions
the problem (and its getting to be a bit of a pain)  is that when a user downloads  the pre-loader kicks in perfectly
if you are in firefox or safari  but in IE no preloader just a white screen and 10/20 seconds later the file appears
can anyone offer any resaon as to why IE9 wont show the preloader. My client is getting jumpy
i have tried writing my own preloader, varying the DL ammount, lowering the file size to low....... and nada.... IE9on captiave 5.5
no preloader
cheers
KBN

Answer 1

Hi,
Any progress on this matter? I have a swf with an XML-generated menu. Clicking on the menu is supposed to load an swf, clicking on another menu item is supposed to unload the first swf and then reload another in its place. It does just that, but the amount of memory consumption increases with each click. Looking at the Output during debug reveals that the unloadAndStop is not functioning. It does nothing at all! I've stripped down the code to the essentials to test it, and it looks like this:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
var FlashLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var flashUrl:URLRequest = new URLRequest("complex.swf");
FlashLoader.load(flashUrl);
FlashLoader.x = 120;
addChild(FlashLoader);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, UNLOAD);
function UNLOAD(event:MouseEvent) {
          flashUrl = null;
          FlashLoader.unloadAndStop();
          FlashLoader.unloadAndStop();
          removeChild(FlashLoader);
          stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, UNLOAD);
          stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, RELOAD);
function RELOAD(event:MouseEvent) {
          flashUrl = new URLRequest("complex.swf");
          FlashLoader.load(flashUrl);
          FlashLoader.x = 120;
          addChild(FlashLoader);
          stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, RELOAD);
          stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, UNLOAD);
It's really driving me nuts... note that I've tested this with non-captivate-generated swfs and it works PERFECTLY. Couldn't the Flash Professional team and the Captivate team at least communicate before implementing things?