Loaders whilst Loading movies

[darrenforster99]

I have seen some sites that when downloading big flash files they come up with Loading (or something similar to this) and sometimes a % loaded bit. I tried doing this using

ifframeloaded ( 30 )
{
gotoAndPlay ( 2 ) ;
}

(Frame 30 being the last frame in my movie and frame 1 containing the loading movie)

Now this worked apart from some of the other frames still hadn't loaded (I presume flash doesn't load frame 1 then 2 then 3 and so on) and so came up blank whilst they were still loading. How do I stop this from happenning, do I have to use some sort of loop to check each frame is loaded or is there an order in which Flash loads the frames. Also how do I put a % loaded sign on (and why doesn't Flash have these functions built in??) darrenforster99@aol.com

 

[PetitPal]

Hi Darren,

Have a look in the FAQ's section, where there are some nice tutorials on making pre-loaders.

=)

PetitPal.

p.s. I would have put a link to the FAQs section but I haven't quite worked out how to yet! =)