Website with Loading Bar

Question

Hello All,
I have a website that I have created in AS3. Right now there is one main splash page before you enter the site (this is index.html). It's a short animation, then you click a button to enter the main website. It takes you to a second HTML page (home.html) where the rest of the website is laid out in flash.
I want to be able to have everything on ONE page, and have a loading bar precede everything. The website itself has a loader in it to display different pictures and text, and I'm worried that the amount of time it takes to load to begin with (the short animation) and to go to the actual site (the bulk of the pictures) is seriously detremental to the flow of the website.
My questions are essentially these:
How do I put the animation in the same place as the website? Will I require a loader in a loader?
How do I make a loading bar kick the whole thing off?
Thanks for your input. Hopefully this is a simple fix that I have yet to learn. Thanks.
-Ted

Answer 1

kglad wrote:
you don't embed home.swf in index.html.  you "load" home.swf into index.swf using the loader class.
so, for example, in index.swf:
yourbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,f);
var ldr:Loader=new Loader();
var urlR:URLRequest=new URLRequest("home.swf");
addChild(ldr);
ldr.contentLoaderInfo(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,loadprogressF);
function loadprogressF(e:ProgressEvent){
// display your preloader using
// e.bytesLoaded and e.bytesTotal;
function f(e:Event){
ldr.load(urlR);