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
parámetro es opc... [Show more]

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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
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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.
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> Well this is very strange because all I did was change
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> bingo, if everything was as easy as that I'd be a
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> Thanks for looking both.
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>>A little while ago I was seeing a white (or light
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>>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>
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>>>> Probably not helpful but I don't see an
initial white background
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Pablo" <[email protected]>
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>>>>> 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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really hoping someone may know what is causing this...
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100)) + "%";
function onComplete(e:Event):void
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function onComplete(e:Event):void
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I have created a digital resumé using a Flash
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My intent is to burn the whole product to CD for
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Maybe the proloader is taking much longer to load than the other stuff in the game. Maybe.

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Hi ,
How can create preloader in flash (AS2).
Please help me.

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kglad wrote:
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[ moved from AS1/2 forum ]
Hi every one,
I'm testing the new capabilities on Flash Pro CS6. And I'm stuck around here as most of my coding are AS1 / AS2 and when I try to make the coding for AS3 one part of my pre-loading is not functional any more. Basically the Dynamic Text does not shows up. Maybe if you take a look into my code you can tell me where I'm wrong.
This is the new AS3 code for my preload scene. I have created this stage to load just one image on the 2nd frame. And it works except for the text that it does not displays the text inside the following instances: percent_txt, ofBytes_txt and totalBytes_txt
I appreciate any ideas you may provide to me pls.
stop();
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function loaderF(e:Event):void{
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Thank you so much and kind regards !!
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The Flash loading progress is stalled when Flash encounters audio or video in the file that it is loading. This is a long standing situation with Flash. If you need to have a reliable loading progress reported to your user, then you will need to remove the sound file(s) from the the file that you want to track.
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100%???
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told to de-select export on fram1 for the linkage of components.
Tried this...great it worked....but none of my components
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The final and most crucial part to completing a project I
have is the preloader. When I first developed this, the preloader
worked fine. a 1.7MB file later, it shows a blank screen, and then
the preloader shows 100% and the page loads.
I was given advice to have the movie clips not be exported to
the first frame, but have them elsewhere in the movie. Problem with
that is that they stop working if I do that.
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it's not appearing while it loads!
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bytesDisplay.text = "loaded " + siteLoaded + " of " +
siteTotal + " bytes";
if (siteLoaded >= siteTotal) {
clearInterval(loadingCall);
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}

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