[thegreatfaran]

I set my site up to where at the end of my address bar it's like "index.php?page=home" or whatever page I'm viewing. Well, since there's frames, I figured that it's just loading the "page" variable and not a whole new page. Well apparently, it reloads a whole new page. So everytime someone clicks on a link, my flash thing at the top restarts. And is very bad.

Any way to fix this?

No clue what I'm talking about? faranation.net

[mx]

unless you use ajax, or use frames, not really.

[thegreatfaran]

Are frames decent looking? I've heard some chatter about them. People describe them as "yucky."

[cam]

you can save state between page reloads using the equivalent of cookies, so you may be able to leverage that combined with the browser cache - check if the cookie has been set with some value, and if so, assume the movie is already loaded...

that's just off the top of my head, no idea if it'd work in practice

[cam]

more info on the "cookie" (local shared object) part here

Macromedia Flash MX - Using local shared objects in Macromedia Flash MX