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#Loading flic in memory

    25-Oct-94 20:19:58
Fm: Cyrus D. Bilimoria 73121,244
To: Nik Grant [adesk] 70421,76
Thanks for your reply. Perhaps I am not explaining this well because someone else offered a similar solution! It is the WINDOWS Animation Player that I am referring to. I repeat – there are distinct differences between the DOS and WINDOWS script abilities as I understand it. This is the problem:- In the DOS version, one can stack a whole series of FLICS to load into memory and when the actual animation show starts, all the FLICS that have been loaded into memory with the LOADFLIC command, execute immediately. However……….. In the Windows version, in the SETTINGS box, one has the option to load a particular script into memory which is fine BUT. BUT … all that this does is to load the flic into memory JUST BEFORE – I repeat JUST BEFORE – it is played which causes long pauses to occur if one has a series of flics that are loading into memory one after the other. Conceptually, the way to avoid it is to load all these large flics into memory all at once AT THE VERY BEFGINNING like one can do in the DOS version. So how do you achive this result in the WINDOWS player ? Thanks Cyrus .