Preloader for xml image gallery

Question

Hi,
I am a little stuck as to where to begin; I have created a
photo gallery and now need to add some preloader capability to it.
The images are brought in via XMLList etc... What I have in mind, I
would like to display a preloader untill all the images are ready
for viewing - not wanting to preload individual images one by one
I also have a document class within the gallery swf file, I
beleive that this may cause conflicts with attaching a preloader to
frame 1 - I have tried preloading the gallery swf file via a
preloader.swf; the end result still leaves me with having to
provide a preloader within the gallery swf.
Can anyone point me to any good examples, for me to get on
with it. Any help would be really appreciated folks ;)
Kind Regards,
Boxing Boom

Answer 1

Hi Kglad,
Thank you for your response: my images are loading sequentially via the following code segment;
//initialize the loader object
   loader=new Loader();
   //add an onInit event to the contentLoadedInfo
   loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, onImageLoaded);
   //create the fake holder
   fakeHolder=new Sprite();
   //and add to it the loader
   fakeHolder.addChild(loader);
   //no need to add it to the stage
   //force the resizeHandler to be called
   resizeHandler(null);
   //Load the XML file
   xmlLoader=new URLLoader();
   //assign the Complete loading event
   xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,parseXML);
   //load the file
   xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("data.xml"));
   //initialize the url request
   urlRequest=new URLRequest();
What I would like to do now is preload these,
Would the code to acheive this be:
xmlLoader.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS ,onProgress);
private function onProgress(pe:ProgressEvent):void
   // this bit is what I do not understand; i.e. your x/n + bl/(bt*n) fraction example
Any further help on this on, would be really appreciated Kglad.
Kind Regards,
Boxing Boom