"unusual" content loading

Question

I'm building a site which would include a number of items
(sheets) under one section. In order to keep a user attracted,
instead of making one SWF file including these sheets which would
then be loaded into this section, I was thinking how to load each
sheet separately...one will have like 50kB so once it's done, it
will slide in and then another when it's loaded and another and
another....let's say I will have like 20-40 pieces of these, so
does that mean I would have to do 20-40 holders etc. to load them
separately?? I guess not...don't know how though...
I was thinking what about doint something like doing it all
in one file and only export it for ActionScript (not in the 1st
frame) and then only take it/load it from the library when it's
needed... is there a way how to do it somehow like this?
Cheers
L.

Answer 1

You could push each loaded clip into an array of loaded clips
if you're keeping them in memory and not removing them after
they've been displayed.
But the basic premise with the event driven approach is to
use a counting variable, which is incremented each time a
onLoadInit happens and just quit the loading cycle once you reach
the total number of clips. I think cbeech/clbeech gave an example
post here recently about this.
If the loaded clips themselves load other content e.g. videos
etc it could get a bit complicated.
Re your other comment.
If pretty much everything else is the same, you could just
use a single xml file to define the differences between the
'sheets' then, which would include the external flvs to load. So
you would have one swf which 'renders' the sheet based on the xml
definition for each sheet and handles the loading of the video.
[Based on your description this is the approach I would use.]
XML can be structured to suit whatever your needs are...e.g.
something like:
<sheets>
<sheet>
<title>Name of this sheet to appear in a
textfield</title>
<description>If required, more detailed info to appear
below the video</description>
<videoURL>thissheetflv.flv</videoURL>
</sheet>
<sheet>
[repeated as many times as needed with different data inside
for each sheet]
</sheet>
</sheets>
If you don't know how to do this and it seems logical as an
option, then you could check out some xml video playlist tutorials.
It can take a while to get your head around accessing the xml data
from inside flash... but it does fall into place eventually.