Delay Before Loading movie.swf

[jamesish]

I added a movie controller to my installer's progress screen using the browser->flashFrame option.

When I am clicking through the installer, there's a noticeable delay of several seconds after I click "next" on the screen before the progress dialog box. Presumably, the flash player is unpacking itself and loading the movie. I was wondering, though, if there's any way to remove that delay.

[giaviv]

Hi,

Is your movie heavy / full of things that require a lot of resources / is your target machine relatively weak?
I am experiencing no noticeable delay, but any of the above might be causing your issue.

[jamesish]

Hi Aviv,

the movie is a 3 megabyte swf file that only displays a movie; it has no interactive elements.

I've noticed that if I run the installer once, there's a noticeable delay the first time that the movie will be displayed. I can cancel the installer, then start the installer again and the second and subsequent times I run the installer there's no delay.

The computer I'm running this on is running with 12 gigs of RAM, 7200RPM hard drives and an i7-940 processor.

Do you have a small movie I could download and embed in my installer so I can verify that it's the movie that's the problem? It could still be, if the movie is being scaled significantly or something.

Thanks!

[giaviv]

Yes that makes sense.
Unfortunately I don't have such a movie, but I am sure a simple Googe search would yield a lot of results..

[Anderson]

i added a flush movie.swf to my project, how can i get the click events on my .swf so that they can change variables on the dialogue

[FrancescoT]

Unfortunately, it's not possible to catch the click event in this case.

Regards