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KenLiu
Community Member
13 years ago

Storyline preload handling

I have a series of mp4 videos at the beginning of every slide as an intro (plays automatically ), each of which is around 1 MB big and 5 seconds long. My questions are: 1, if this video hasn't be...
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PierreJouan
Community Member
12 years ago

Mark Marino said: 

I ended up re-rigging things so that a "Loading, please wait..." text box is shown in Storyline rather than in my .swf and when the .swf is completely loaded, it executes the following code:

 ExternalInterface.call('GetPlayer().SetVar','stateFromFlash',"flash_loaded");

Then, within Storyline, I have a trigger watching for changes to variable 'stateFromFlash' and when it gets set to "flash_loaded", I hide the loading text box. 

 Not the most elegant solution, but it seems to be working fine. 

Many, many thanks, it works just great !

I was desperate to find a solution because the preloader I added to my swf just wouldn't work when imported in Storyline.

This is so simple and yet efficient !

  • SushilSuryawans's avatar
    SushilSuryawans
    Community Member
    11 years ago

    Hi Pierre Jouan and Mark Marino!

    I felt really good reading your discussion on solving the preloading problem. In fact, I am facing the similar problem with my SL output deployment.

    Actually we and our clients are habitual to use Adobe Captivate output that shows a download progress bar before starting the eLearning module. Once the module is 100% downloaded, it starts and runs smoothly after that.

    With Storyline what is happening is, the module starts off quickly but that's not fully downloaded. So at some point of time, where the assets are not yet downlaoded, the viewer gets stuck! ..and doen't understand why the module stopped in between, and you might know what happens next!

    Thanks to your discussion, I could sense that SOMETHING can be done for this!

    Can you please explain how exactly to do what Mark suggested and Pierre liked: 

    "Re-rigging things so that a "Loading, please wait..." text box is shown in Storyline rather than in my .swf and when the .swf is completely loaded, it executes the following code:

     ExternalInterface.call('GetPlayer().SetVar','stateFromFlash',"flash_loaded");

    Then, within Storyline, I have a trigger watching for changes to variable 'stateFromFlash' and when it gets set to "flash_loaded", I hide the loading text box."

    You might have understood that I am a new animal on this planet who needs all the details about what all things need to be clicked to do this! :P

    It will be a great help! Thanks in advance!