How do i...?

[GeekyNeuron]

Hi guys'n'gals

I have hit a small snag during writing my web-page. I want the page to download updated pages from various sites everyday morning without prompting the viewer and it should be fast enough to work reasonably well over a dial-up connection ? The likely size of downloads would be about 400k.


will be grateful for a suggestion/pointer/script/code.

[ac1dsp3ctrum]

What do you mean update pages.... If you mean download a peice of a news website everyday and show it on your sidebar, that isnt that hard to do... You could try an <iframe>, but 400k of uploads will take at least 3-5 minutes on a 56k... You gotta find some way to reduce the size, bevause I dont think any 56k'er will wait that long for a page to load... But ill try to look for a preload script for you... It might help :)

[VanEck]

please try and be alittle more specific when asking for help. elaborate on your question so people will be more inclined to answer. when someone has to guess and decrypt a question, it will usually just get ignored.

[redgore]

56k users like me :) Get fed up of large loading times. WHAt you seem to want to do will annoy us like hell and we will leave your site after oooh about 5 secs

[zigar]

400k... about 400sec on a 56k that's almost 7 minutes...i MIGHT wait that long for a dl...but NEVER for a page just to load...

i'd figure out a way to index the pages...maybe just the urls...(you're not talking 400k of url's are ya???)

[ac1dsp3ctrum]

I couldnt find that <script> for you... But you could use a Flash preloader, just look at almost any flash-website and their will be a flash tutorial, ahem, How about http://www.newgrounds.com/flash :D

[valhallen]

flash preloaders are easy peasy ;) well once you know how heres a quick run through in how to create one......

1. name the first frame of your loader scene start
2. create a keyframe at about say frame 10 and name it loaded
3. create another keyframe after loaded and name it wait
4. create a final keyframe called next

ok now heres the action script for each scene

loaded
ifFrameLoaded ("lastScene", "LastFrame") {
gotoAndPlay ("next");
}

wait
ifFrameLoaded (1) {
gotoAndPlay ("start");
}

next
ifFrameLoaded (1) {
gotoAndPlay ("NextScene", 1);
}

Ok easy so far?? the bits in bold you'll have to change to your scene/frame names
but you don't want just a blank screen so add another layer and make a small animation to play between frames 1 & 10

I'll include a sample .fla for you to look at - hope it helps

v_Ln

[valhallen]

soz forgot to include that file - here you go

v_Ln

[GeekyNeuron]

I'd like to thank all of you for your kind help. For some ppl, I'd like to clarify - I DON'T want this script for MY page ; I need it to download some updates for MYSELF;0) so you see that no one other than me has to wait for these downloads.

Thanks All !!

[valhallen]

What a nice young man - your very welcome ;) - heh

v_Ln