Progress Bar before page loads......

Question

Hello -
I'm able to make progress bars for loading images on the
screen, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make one
appear before the entire page loads. Do use the Loader component as
the entire page and have my flash file load into it? I'm pretty
sure there is an easier way by using actionscript, but my coding
skills are average........
Any help or suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated.
I did do a search on this subject and found a few hints, but not
everything.
Thanks again.

Answer 1

I tried this coding and for some reason I didn't see the
progress bar before the page loaded. I'm assuming it has something
to do with the "visible=0" line. I messed around with that, and
still had no luck. See if I overlooked a small detail. Thanks
Kglad.
That url (in the code) will work if you want to try it.
loadMovieNum("
http://www.trance-state.com/equipment.swf",2);
preloadI=setInterval(preloadF,100);
function preloadF(){
bl=_level2.getBytesLoaded();
bt=_level2.getBytesTotal();
if(bl==bt&&bl>0){
clearInterval(preloadI);
_level0._visible=0;
} else {
// put code here to update your progress bar and anything
else you want using bl and bt
}