How to show a splashscreen in a FLASH AIR game while content is loading

Hi,
I've seen some games take some time to load (something completely reasonalbe and normal). So I guess it would be really interesting to have a way to show a splash screen while the content is loading.
Any common aproach to face this problem?
Thks.

The solution is generally to break up the operation that is taking a long time into smaller chunks. If for example, you have a long loop executing, then AIR never gets a chance to update the screen (or respond to the OS messages).
The first step is to identify what part of the process is taking such a long time.
See http://senocular.com/flash/tutorials/asyncoperations/ for a good explanation.
And to put up a progress bar, you have to do this anyway, otherwise the progress bar will never get updated, either.

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