A good simple preloader.

I've asked some questions regarding this before on a project I had to put on the backburner. But I'm back to that project now and am looking at it with new fresh eyes so I thought I'd bring it up again in a new discussion. I'm working on a Flash website, using Actionscript 3 in Flash cs5.5. I need a preloader...one that loads and opens a seperate swf. I got some help putting some code together to make a preloader like this and it works but I'd like to make one more visually pleasing.
Can anybody either give me advice or possibly point me towards a tutorial that will teach me to make a preloader with a some sort of loading graphic, like a status bar or something(doesn't have to be anything too crazy) that will load and open another swf? I've found tutorials in the passed that show how to make status bars and stuff but they're all coded to load another frame within the same swf, which isn't what I want and I don't know my way around as3 well enough to modify it for what I need.
The key here really is I want it to be simple. I'm not an actionscript whiz by any stretch.
thanks guys!

If you look at the loop function in the code he provides, that is what you will use to control things like a loading bar... the key being to understand and make use of the perc value that is being calculated.
You can use the perc value to control the scaleX of something, such as a status bar...
yourStatusBar.scaleX = 0; // a starting value for your status bar
function loop(e:ProgressEvent):void
    var perc:Number = e.bytesLoaded / e.bytesTotal;
    percent.text = Math.ceil(perc*100).toString();
    yourstatusBar.scaleX = perc;

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Ciao!

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myPreloader.y = stage.stageHeight/1.2;
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function showContent(event:Event):void {
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}

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Hello !
I have a very simple preloader file which loads a "main.swf" file. I put on stage
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H

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H

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Liquid-86 wrote:
> I know there are preloaders on the web, and tutorials
for them but most of them
> are pretty complex. Does someone know a website or can
someone tell me how I
> can make a very simple preloader with minimal work.
The basic loader with some progress bar and % of the loaded
movie.
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stop();
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bt = this.getBytesTotal();
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if ((bl == bt) && (bt > 0)) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
gotoAndPlay (3);
Than on the very same frame make a movie clip with some shape
tween from small to large, this will be your progress bar.
Make it 100 frames long. Once done give it instance name
"offPreloader"
Last this is to place dynamic text field with instance name
"preload_txt"
Pretty much it.
Just make sure that the progress bar is not too large, like
made
out of bitmap images, you want to keep the preloader frame
as small as possible so flash can load it quickly.
Than start your content from frame 3 and you all done ---- TA
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A: [flash] Preloader

Bueno creo que eso es para ponerlo en el primer fotograma de
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preloader se carga en otro nivel, entonces uso un
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Enzo C.
"Santiago" <[email protected]> escribió
en el mensaje
news:f1vtes$7vi$[email protected]..
>A mi me paso lo mismo muchas veces, hace poco descubri
que puede ser porque
>en mis movies estaba usando Componentes, y estos se
exportan siempre en el
>primer fotograma o estaba realizando la programación
de manera tal de que
>algunas cosas se ejecutaran antes que nada :(
> De todas maneras hay una manera de hacer que las lineas
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sentencia, y es
> usando la Directiva #initclip - el material descripto a
continuación es de
> la ayuda de flash, con todo permiso :) -
>
> Directiva #initclip
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inicialización. Cuando
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puede utilizar el
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inicialización que se ejecuta en
> primer lugar. Las acciones de inicialización se
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película es un símbolo
> exportado, las acciones de inicialización se
ejecutan antes que la
> acciones en el fotograma 1 del archivo SWF. De lo
contrario, se ejecutan
> inmediatamente antes que las acciones del fotograma que
contiene la
> primera instancia del símbolo de clip de
película asociado.
> Las acciones de inicialización sólo se
ejecutan una vez que se reproduce
> un archivo SWF. Utilícelas para inicializaciones
que se realizan una vez,
> como definición de clases y registro.
> No inserte un punto y coma (;) al final de la línea
que contiene la
> directiva #initclip.
> Disponibilidad: Flash Player 6.0; ActionScript 1.0
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