Simple and fast Preloader ?

Question

I know there are preloaders on the web, and tutorials for
them but most of them are pretty complex. Does someone know a
website or can someone tell me how I can make a very simple
preloader with minimal work.
(I’m a beginner with flash)

Answer 1

Liquid-86 wrote:
> I know there are preloaders on the web, and tutorials
for them but most of them
> are pretty complex. Does someone know a website or can
someone tell me how I
> can make a very simple preloader with minimal work.
The basic loader with some progress bar and % of the loaded
movie.
On first frame of your timeline place the following action :
stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function () {
bl = this.getBytesLoaded();
bt = this.getBytesTotal();
if (bt <= 0) {bt = 99;}
offPreloader.gotoAndStop(Math.floor((bl / bt) * 100));
preload_txt.text = Math.round((bl / bt) * 100) + " %";
if ((bl == bt) && (bt > 0)) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
gotoAndPlay (3);
Than on the very same frame make a movie clip with some shape
tween from small to large, this will be your progress bar.
Make it 100 frames long. Once done give it instance name
"offPreloader"
Last this is to place dynamic text field with instance name
"preload_txt"
Pretty much it.
Just make sure that the progress bar is not too large, like
made
out of bitmap images, you want to keep the preloader frame
as small as possible so flash can load it quickly.
Than start your content from frame 3 and you all done ---- TA
DAAA !!!!
Regards
Urami
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