concept thing

[bubu]

http://www.stratocucine.com

Hello guys!
Please have a look at that link...and move across a section ... you will notice how the movies with the images are loading one after another (the menu is masked by the percentage bar).

The question:

They have a main movie in which they load the images....but the percentage bar is outside that movie...and the movies are loading one after another...how can i do that?...i have a solution but i think is too complicated ... make the percentage bar movies in the main movie, and set their width ( i've noticed is more flexible than _xscale when it comes to percentage bars) accordingly to the loading progress....load those movies in a container from the main movie and set the width like this:

total=_root.container.getBytesTotal();
loaded=_root.container.getBytesLoaded();
progress= int(total/loaded*100);

_root.percentage_bar._width=progress;

...as for the looping load of the images: on a first frame load the first movie and stop(); and on the last frame of this movie(loaded in container from the main movie) set an action to go on a second frame where we load the second movie and stop(); ....somehow on these frames from the main movie (1 for the first movie, 2 for the second, etc...) we have to set the _width of the percentage bars ....

Sounds pretty complicated to me...so please advise
Thanks a lot!


Regards,
Dragos.

 

[wangbar]

You could monitor the entire thing from one event which loads the next movie in sequence once the previous one hits 100% loaded. This removes the need for lots of individual key frames doing the loading.

For me _xscale is by far the best way to scale the progress bars because you don't need to know how wide the clip is.

 

[bubu]

Thanks a lot for the tip wangbar! ;-)

Regards,
Dragos.