Basic princibles of loading feature in flash movies

Hi everyone,
just a quick question,
what are the basic princibles of the loading feature,
i.e. when a bar goes across the screen indicating how much
percent is loaded.
how do they do this and keep it moveing at the same rate as
the video loads?
please answer if you know,
Thanks!

quote:
Originally posted by:
dzedward
you cant switch back and fourth from AS3 to AS2 in your movie
and expect it to work. its like somone who only speaks english,
trying to read a book in half english and half german. it just
doesnt work.. look here for a preloader tutorial for AS3
http://flashas3.flashscript.biz/stage_preloader/Stage_preloader_2.html
no no, you see when i go file> new> it gives me the
option of makeing a new as2 file or as3 file

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