RE: How do I delay the starting of a flash movie (.swf) in Front Page

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From: Havoc (Havoc_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:33:04 -0700

Tom,
Thanks. I had a feeling that was probably the case but I was hoping to be
able to do it in front page since I know very little about using flash. This
is the first time I've tried to use it and it's a lot more complicated than
front page. Anyway, thank you again.
HH

"Tom Cook" wrote:

> HH--
> You need to do this in Flash, not in FrontPage.
>
> You should add a preloader to your Flash .SWF that will
> wait until all the components are loaded before
> proceeding. There are lots of tutorials and samples of
> such preloaders on Flash sites. Look there.
>
> Tom Cook
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I'm using a splash page I created in flash (the rest of
> the site is all Front
> >Page). It starts almost immediately as the page opens.
> The problem is that it
> >plays one time through with the pictures out of sinc
> with the music, the
> >music finishes first, there are a few seconds of silence
> while the pictures
> >continue and then it all links up and loops perfectly.
> The status bar shows
> >that it is still loading during the first (out of sinc)
> time through and it
> >shows that it's fully loaded just as it starts to run
> correctly. Can I delay
> >starting the loop for a few seconds so that the .swf
> file is fully loaded and
> >runs in sync from the start?
> >--
> >HH
> >.
> >
>

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