Flash 8 Preloader Troubles

Hiya - sorry to revisit an old issue - but Im still
struggling. Most of my sites are under 1MB, but a new one is around
2MB, (I know - Ive told the client
Im using a simple percentage loaded script, which
Ive used before and Im content with, except this time the delay
before the preloader shows is marked. Ive googled, looked through
various forums etc, but havent found a simple laymans terms tute,
or explanation on how I can correct this. The preloader takes
forever to appear, durign which time the screen is just the bg
colour. I have moved other codes to the third frame, (so that its
only the preloader that starts in frame one) but still no joy.
Thanks again,
Scotia

Hi Lisa;
I just had something similar to the problem you are having.
The Solution was eluding me for about half-an-hour. Then I realized
that the preloader I made earlier was published for flash 6. While
I was editing the site, I had to use an option available in flash 8
publish settings. Once I saved the site in Flash 8 settings I was
having errors with the action script. I didn't make any changes at
all to the preloader actions script in my editing but it was now
showing an error. I got lucky and attempted to re-publish the site
back to Flash 6 Publish settings.....It worked. Also the flash 8
feature that I added still worked. So simply try and "Go back to
the future" and change your publish settings back to Flash 6
settings. No guarantees, but it worked for me.
Good Luck,
Rod

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Flash Preloader Issue

I have tried several methods of flash preloading for some
large flash movies I have. The loader indicator flashes for just a
brief moment and then there is blank data until the file loads. I
am using Go-live CS2. I had a friend publish the same code using a
different site and a different editor and it works. Does Go-live do
something weird to preloaders? Or, is it possible that my site
providers server is blocking script to prevent it from working? Any
ideas would be appreciated. If you have a suggestion of a preloader
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Flash Preloading - Not Simple

I am new, but to the extent that I have a full flash site
that works great. I cannot get any preloaders to work. Lets be
honest, I cannot even begin. Everyone assumes an expert, even the
'simple flash preloader' sites.
Why not just use the component in Flash CS3? Why can't Adobe
help with this instead of sending me to google to get preloader
ideas? Why is the WMODE=transparent command not recommended if you
want transparency (as a supposive fix to the white box)? Preloaders
are not simple for non-developers.
Simply, I have a background.jpg in an HTML document. I load a
flash in a table on top. It shows white in the table before the
flash loads. Adobe's answer is to use a preloader. OK. Great. I
found several, all of which insert so many variables that I can't
tell what is really a variable or not. I have no desire to become a
preloader retailer....OK? I just need a preloader. Explicatives
removed. I simply want to load literally "video1.swf" without
getting a white box. A progress bar would be nice. Will this be a
seperate flash (swf), or will it be inserted in the timeline as
seperate layers in the timeline to play before the original frames?
Must I combine my original video1 file into a movie symbol, then
manipulate it in another timeline with a preloader?
Please do not assume ANYTHING. I need to get this done once
and for all.
Please, just make it simple. Attached is some code I found.
Can it be edited to work with the "ProgressBar" in CS3? If there is
an option, a seperate swf would be better as I have several pages
that are setup the exact same way.
Thank you.

Seeing white is nothing to do with a preloader - set the bg
of your movie to
other than white. If you're using something like SWFObject to
embed your
Flash in the HTML, make sure it's not set to a white bg also.
Aside from that a preloader is not too difficult to build -
and the code you
gave as a sample is bad code, which is likely the source of
your problems. I
don't have Flash 9 yet, but in 8 you would want to use the
MovieClipLoader
class to load in your swf. It has an onLoadProgress method
that you can make
use of to build a progress bar.
Try this for a tutorial:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/moviecliploader.htm
Dave -
Head Developer
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Flash Preloader

Hi all,
I am currently trying to build a simple preloaded for my
company's portfolio, and I cant get anything to work! Anybody have
any good websites or know of any tutorials online?
Thanks,
-Peachy

A: [flash] Preloader

Bueno creo que eso es para ponerlo en el primer fotograma de
un MC, pero mi
preloader se carga en otro nivel, entonces uso un
loadMovieNum().
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
de codigo del load
> sean leidas por el reproductor antes que cualquier otra
sentencia, y es
> usando la Directiva #initclip - el material descripto a
continuación es de
> la ayuda de flash, con todo permiso :) -
>
> Directiva #initclip
> - Indica el principio de un bloque de acciones de
inicialización. Cuando
> se inicializan varios clips simultáneamente, se
puede utilizar el
> parámetro order para especificar la
inicialización que se ejecuta en
> primer lugar. Las acciones de inicialización se
ejecutan cuando se define
> un símbolo de clip de película. Si el clip de
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
> Parámetros
> order:Number [opcional] - Un entero no negativo que
especifica el orden de
> ejecución de bloques de código #initclip. Este
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Preloading trouble

Hi all,
I have encountered some trouble with the preloader in
Captivate 3:
I used the default preloader in a captivate project, and when
I test it I see that the preloader image is not displayed until
very late in the game, just a few seconds before the project is
fully loaded. So, basically I see a blank screen for a while, then
a few seconds of the preloader image and then the swf itself.
I've not made any changes to the preloader code.
I use Captivate 3, publish to flash 8 and view in explorer.
Does anyone know the root for this problem and how to fix it?
Why isn't the preloader displayed as soon as I start loading the
project?
Thank in advance,
Anat

.oO(Mike-H)
>I have a page with an image gallery, thanks to David
Powers help. It works via
>spry/javascript. It loads fine, all the images work, but
when I click on a
>thumbnail, I have to wait for up to 3 seconds to see the
larger image.
Quite normal.
>If I
>change the image group, I also have to wait to see the
new thumbnails loaded.
Sure. Quite normal.
>This is on a very fast internet connection, I am
concerned that it will be even
>more pronounced by anyone using a slower connection.
>
> In the past I have seen various methods of preloading
images: using an onload
>directive in the body tag, using a javascript function,
and putting all the
>files at the bottom of a page in a hidden div (a div with
css display:none). My
>questions is: do these help
No.
Think about it. The files have to be downloaded anyway.
Whether on
demand or "preloaded" - it always takes time.
Preloading almost never really works and may even have severe
drawbacks,
like in case of image galleries. If you preload the entire
gallery, the
user's browser will download and download and download - it
will take
some time until the progess bar shows 100%. Not good.
Additionally this
will cause _a_lot_ of totally unnecessary traffic on both
client and
server side. You don't know which images the user wants to
see, so why
push them all into the browser already? This doesn't really
make sense.
So forget the entire preloading idea. Simply link the
thumbnails to the
page and don't worry if clicking on a larger image may take 3
or 5
seconds. That's what users are used to, it's not a real
problem.
Micha

Problem with Flash preloader in IE using swfObject 2

Hi All,
I've embedded my swf using swfObject 2, my preloader shows up fine in Firefox, Chrome and Safari but when viewed in IE the preloader doesn't show up....there is just a pause and once the movie has loaded it starts to play.
Here is my code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
          <head>
                    <title>TooNeat Studios :: Advanced Digital Media</title>
                    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
                    <style type="text/css" media="screen">
                              html, body {
                                        height:100%;
                                        background-color: #000000;
                              body {
                                        overflow:hidden;
                                        margin-top: 0px;
                              #con {
                                        position: relative;
                              #flashContent {
                                        position: absolute;
                                        left:50%;
                                        margin-left:-640px;
                    </style>
        <script src="swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
                              swfobject.registerObject("tooneat", "11.9.900", "expressInstall.swf");
                    </script>
          </head>
          <body>
              <div id="con">
                    <div id="flashContent">
                              <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="1280" height="580" id="tooneat" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="tooneat.swf" />
                                        <param name="quality" value="best" />
                                        <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
                                        <param name="play" value="true" />
                                        <param name="loop" value="true" />
                                        <param name="wmode" value="window" />
                                        <param name="scale" value="showall" />
                                        <param name="menu" value="false" />
                                        <param name="devicefont" value="false" />
                                        <param name="salign" value="" />
                                        <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                                        
                                        <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="tooneat.swf" width="1280" height="580">
                                                  <param name="movie" value="tooneat.swf" />
                                                  <param name="quality" value="best" />
                                                  <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
                                                  <param name="play" value="true" />
                                                  <param name="loop" value="true" />
                                                  <param name="wmode" value="window" />
                                                  <param name="scale" value="showall" />
                                                  <param name="menu" value="false" />
                                                  <param name="devicefont" value="false" />
                                                  <param name="salign" value="" />
                                                  <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                                        
                                                  <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash">
                                                            <img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" />
                                                  </a>
                                        
                                        </object>
                                        
                              </object>
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</div>
          </body>
</html>

Interesting! No answer to your problem in the Flash forum. They would know more than we do.
I assume that you have had a look here http://helpx.adobe.com/flash/kb/flash-object-embed-tag-attributes.html.

Flash Preload white bg problem

Hi all,
Why on this page
http://www.dellimages.com/photographs-images-menorca/menorca-sea.html
is
there an initial white bg for the preloader? I've looked high
and low to no
avail.
Cheers
Pablo

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> Well this is very strange because all I did was change
the file name and
> bingo, if everything was as easy as that I'd be a
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>
> Thanks for looking both.
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>
> Pablo
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>>A little while ago I was seeing a white (or light
grey) background to the
>>flash, it is now the same colour as your page
background with a light grey
>>circle preloader image..
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>>> Did you before? I changed the file name of the
xml file and the white bg
>>> has gone, this can't be the reason though....I'm
looking in FF PC Win
>>> XP.
>>>
>>>> Probably not helpful but I don't see an
initial white background
>>>
>>>
>>> I mean the bg of the flash, not the page.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Pablo
>>>
>>>
>>> "josie1one" <joleros[nospam]@yahoo.com>
wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> Probably not helpful but I don't see an
initial white background
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Pablo" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Why on this page
>>>>>
http://www.dellimages.com/photographs-images-menorca/menorca-sea.html
>>>>> is there an initial white bg for the
preloader? I've looked high and
>>>>> low to no avail.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> Pablo
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Flash player trouble in firefox and safari

Hi,
i hope no one has opened a threat with this question. i did search for it but did not find any. if someone opened a threat like this please post a link here.
i got audio trouble with flash player.
flash player plays video proberly but it does not play any sound.
this occured after the last safari update.
i use a M-Audio interface (Firewire 1814) with a 2,5" HD (80GB) mounted on the 2nd firewire port of the audio-interface.
although all other application got no sound problems, this problem remains with flash content.
hope someone got an idea.
thx
Mike

Adobe FlashPlayer should first be uninstalled using the appropriate uninstaller available here: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157&sliceId=2 and then the latest version obtained from here: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash and installed.
(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.
In earlier versions than QT 7.1.3 in Quicktime Preferences, under advanced, UNcheck Enable Flash, and under Mime settings/Miscellananeous only check Quicktime HTML (QHTM).

Flash preloader freezes when refreshed in IE7

Ok, I know there are a lot of known issues with IE7 and
active content, but this is a new one to me, and I am really,
really hoping someone may know what is causing this...
I have a small online web site set up in HTML, but I have the
portfolio section set up in flash .swf, and naturally, there is a
preloader for this .swf file.
I already have a java script code to override the "click to
activate" issue with IE7, so that issue is taken care of. The
preloader works fine initially in all browsers and that includes
IE7, BUT if the user navigates away from the portfolio using the
top nav bar, and returns to the portfolio, the preloader freezes at
what looks like 99% as the image i used is completely colored in.
In order to advance, the user must then right click on the flash
movie and select "forward" to get to the frame containing the
content. This only happens in IE7, clicking links back and forth
does not create adverse effects in any other browsing setup.
I have the preloader set up on frame 1 of Scene 1 in multiple
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frame one, it is an empty keyframe, and then on frame 2 of that
layer I have the main_mc movie clip with all navigation and content
placed, and all layers above that have been converted to empty
keyframes on frame 2.
Here is the AS3 code I am using for the preloader on frame
one of the main stage:
stop();
this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,
onProgress);
this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
function onProgress(e:ProgressEvent):void
var loaded:Number = e.target.bytesLoaded;
var total:Number = e.target.bytesTotal;
var pct:Number = loaded/total;
loader_mc.scaleX = pct;
loaded_txt.text = "loading portfolio..." + (Math.round(pct *
100)) + "%";
function onComplete(e:Event):void
gotoAndStop(2);
I have also tried:
function onComplete(e:Event):void
nextFrame();
but that has caused no difference with the issue.
Any Ideas, tips or tricks?? I am a recent graduate looking
for a job, and I feel like this issue has potential to hold me
back...thank you to anyone in advance.

If your using javascript to ebmed the movie, try this
yourswfName.swf?t= new Date().getTime()
if php
yourswfName.swf?t= php echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s")
I call it a cache buster, you can make a function and have it
append to the swf file name. it is some caching issue with ie7 and
flash player 9 so your adding a timestamp to the end of the file
name, making the browser reload the video.
also if the video is already loaded, and the user comes back
to the page. It could be already loaded. Then there is no need for
the preloader. Mabey put something in your code that says if bytes
loaded == bytes total skip preloader and just play.
hope that helps ya

Flash preloader only appears after 60%

Hi all,
I added a simple preloader to the first frame of my flash
movie. When all is loaded, the movie continues to the 2nd frame. I
had a few library items exported as actionscript and exported in
first frame. I unchecked export in first frame for ALL items. BUT
(although my MC is missing some library items), my preloader STILL
won't appear until over 60% is already loaded. What does my MC load
before it even enters 1st frame? Any ideas anyone?

on the first frame put a STOP.
on the movie clip of the preloader add the code:
onClipEvent(load)
total = _parent.getBytesTotal();
}onClipEvent(enterFrame)
loaded = _parent.getBytesLoaded();
percent = int(loaded / total * 100);
text = percent + "%";
gotoAndStop(percent);
if (loaded == total)
_parent.gotoAndPlay(2);
where you can see i have _parent. maynot be neccessary on
your preloader.

Preloader trouble

Hi,
I'm involved with my first Flash Project using Action Script.
Im having some problems with my preloader. I have the following
script to prevent the page playing before it has been completely
loaded. The problem is that if someone clicks out of the page while
it was still loading, 'myInterval' won't be cleared and will mess
things up. I'm assuming I need an 'else' command. Just not sure
how, Any help?
stop();
myInterval = setInterval (preloader, 50);
function preloader() {
if (getBytesLoaded()>=getBytesTotal() ) {
play()
clearInterval (myInterval)
}

Let me rephrase: I have a movie clip loader and a preloader
in a master page. I load to this master page different swf files
using the mcl. Some of them take more time to load so I've added an
"interval function" to tell flash not to start playing the page
until its fully loaded. Now, the problem occurs if someone, while
loading a page with the interval script, doesn't wait until the
page is fully loaded and clicks on another link (any link) and
starts loading another swf clip. The site freezes and wont work
until it gets reloaded.
I am aware that I do have to cancel that condition somehow...
Sorry for being such a mess explaining this. I'm just learning
action script and its hard to explain when you don't have the
proper lingo.
Jose Luis

Flash install trouble on Mac 10.8.3 with Safari

I am having trouble with the latest Flash update. I go to install it and half way through the install it tells me that I need to close my Safari browser. But my browser is closed, not open. I even tried restarting my computer and trying again but I still got the same error message. What do I do?

Seriously ? no ideas ?
I did some more testing and Flash is really messed up with this computer. Chrome seems to work, but performance is not what it should be.
I went back to a 10.X version of flash with same effect. went back to Firefox 17 ...same effect.
It almost seems like hardware...however Chrome works..
When in Safari or Firefox. Right click brings up Flash settings..but I am unable to select anything in the panel.. cant click off hardware accleration..i cant even close the panel. (on chrome i can select all settings) Video flickers constantly in Safari.. wont play at all in Firefox.

AS3 PreLoader Troubles

I have been trying to make my simple animated preloader work and am just about ready to throw in the towell.
import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
myLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
myLoader.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS , onProgress);
function onProgress(e:ProgressEvent):void
    var pct:Number = e.bytesLoaded / e.bytesTotal;
function onComplete(e:Event):void
    preloader_mc.X = -1000;
myLoader.load(new URLRequest("D.swf"));
PLEASE HELP!!!!!

use:
import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
myLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
myLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS , onProgress);
function onProgress(e:ProgressEvent):void
    var pct:Number = e.bytesLoaded / e.bytesTotal;
function onComplete(e:Event):void
    preloader_mc.X = -1000;
myLoader.load(new URLRequest("D.swf"));

Flash Preloader Not Working with Local Files?

Hello all,
I have created a digital resumé using a Flash
presentation. The presentation links to several SWF files that are
rather large. I have designed and implemented preloaders for the
files.
My intent is to burn the whole product to CD for
distribution. The problem I am having is that my Flash preloaders
work perfectly in FireFox; I click the button in the main
presentation and the preloader comes up in the target screen,
followed by the SWF.
However, the preloaders do not work at all in IE, which
leaves a black pane with nothing in it and causes the user to click
the button several times trying to figure out why nothing is
happening.
The Flash presentation that is being displayed is embedded in
a HTML document. The user clicks a button to load a SWF to a
separate screen; the preloader runs until the file is loaded.
Any help you could provide is appreciated.

I have attached the actionscript for the data connection. The
odd thing about this issue is some of the data is being displayed
from the webservice call and then some is not. The drop down list
is not being populated but I am getting some text in a textarea
that is on the form. My datasource is a SQL Server database and in
ColdFusion administrator, I used the actual machine name to point
to the datasource because it is directly linked to my web server.
This configuration is the one giving me problems. If I change the
datasource to my test SQL Server (server.somewhere.com) it works
fine. Does this help any?

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