User Guide

652 Chapter 6: Components Dictionary

For example, suppose you have a slide presentation in which three people are each contributing a

single section. You could ask each presenter to create a separate slide presentation (SWF file). You

would then create a “master slide presentation” that contains three placeholder slides, one for each

slide presentation being created by the presenters. For each placeholder slide, you could point its

contentPath property to one of the SWF files. The master slide presentation could be arranged

as shown in the following illustration:

“Master” SWF slide presentation structure

Suppose presenters provide you with three SWF files, speaker_1.swf, speaker_2.swf, and

speaker_3.swf. You could easily assemble the overall presentation by setting the

contentPath

property of each placeholder slide, either using the Property inspector or ActionScript, as shown

in the following code:

Speaker_1.contentPath = speaker_1.swf;

Speaker_2.contentPath = speaker_2.swf;

Speaker_3.contentPath = speaker_3.swf;

By default, when you set a slide’s contentPath property while authoring in the Property

inspector, or using ActionScript (as shown above), the specified SWF file loads as soon as the

“master presentation” SWF file has loaded. To reduce initial load time, consider setting the

contentPath property in an on(reveal) handler attached to each slide.

// Attached to Speaker_1 slide

on(reveal) {

this.contentPath="speaker_1.swf";

}

Alternatively, you could set the slide’s autoLoad property to false. Then you could call the

load() method on the slide when the slide has been revealed. (The autoLoad property and the