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Streaming Flash movies with Lingo

In addition to the Lingo that lets you stream many of Director's media types, Director offers Lingo that specifically lets you control and monitor streaming Flash movies. For general information about using Lingo to stream media in Director, see Playing movies over the Internet overview.

To specify whether a linked movie streams or not, set the preLoad property. See preLoad (cast member property).

To specify how much of a Flash cast member streams into memory at one time, set the bufferSize cast member property. See bufferSize.

To check how many bytes of a Flash movie have streamed into memory, test the bytesStreamed property. See bytesStreamed.

To determine how much of a Flash movie is currently streamed, test the percentStreamed property or check the streamSize function. See percentStreamed and streamSize.

To set when Director attempts to stream part of a Flash movie, set the streamMode property. See streamMode.

To clear an error setting for a streaming Flash movie, use the clearError command. See clearError.

To determine whether an error occurred while streaming a Flash movie, use the getError() function. See getError().

To check the current state of a streaming file, test the state property. See state.

To attempt to forcibly stream a specified number of bytes of a Flash movie, use the stream command. See stream.