preload external content before its time

Is it possible to preload content before a person looking at your site requests it, for instance when your website loads and is displayed other content and pages will start preloading in a certain order with out the website user knowing?

preload external content before its time

sure.?just load the content whenever you you want.?if it completes downloading before requested by the user, it will be loaded (rapidly) from the user's cache.

preload external content before its time

How do you load an swf file without it appearing, the only way I know how to load an swf file is to loadMovieNum('''', ''level''); and it loads over the existing movie

I would prefer not to use a moviecliploader.

create an empty movieclip, assign it an _alpha of 0, and use loadMovie() to load into it.

or, even better, create an empty frame in your loaded swfs that contains only stop().?then when you're ready to display your swf, apply the play() method to the load-target movieclip or _level.

I created a movie clip set the alpha to 0 and used this code in the

first frame of the movie clip, the movie showed up when it wasn't

supposed to

loadMovieNum(''movie1.swf'', 1);

stop();

I also tried the code

loadMovie(''movie1.swf'')

stop()

that didn't work, and flash didn't like the code

if the instance name of your empty movieclip with _alpha=0 is targetMC, use:

targetMC.loadMovie(''movie1.swf'');