preloader problems

[petermidi]

Hi there,
I'd really appreciate some help here if someone's got time...
My swf is now behaving perfectly in every way but one...the preloader doesn't appear until all the movie has loaded.
And I've tried publishing 'top down' and 'bottom up' but to no avail.
Is there a trick to this?
The preloaded was taken from a template at

http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/downloads/preloader2.zip

and the script is a build on 'ifFrameLoaded ("s1") {
x = 1;
play ();
}
etc
Can anyone help?
Do I need to somehow specify to flash to start playing BEFORE everything has loaded?
Thanks again,
Petr

 

[oldnewbie]

Very old script and ifFrameLoaded is now deprecated...

Are you using components, attached movie clips and/or attached soundObjects, and/or setting up new fonts in the Library, anywhere in your movie?

If so, some of the above might be the cause of your preloader problems... See this...

http://senocular.com/flash/tutorials/faq/#preloaderstart

An for a better preloading script, check this...

http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/preloading/

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[petermidi]

Thank you - I'm just having a look at those links now.
Interestingly - I have made some progress - I have the preloader working..but I think my problem is that I have a 5MB audio file...and it's loading in the first frame.

So my challenge is going to be to find a way of doing the preloader that can be an effective'progress indicator' when 5MB of the 6MB swf is the SOUND!

Any thoughts on this issue too?

Thanks again,
Peter

 

[oldnewbie]

Well that first link would explain that problem, since the sound is exported on the first frame...

If that sound is the only thing delaying the preloader, then you can uncheck the Export on the first frame box (but leave the Export for actionscript one checked...) and simply drag an instance of your sound on an unplayed frame, between your preloader frame(s) and the actual starting frameof your movie.

An alternative, without unchecking anything, is to use a seperate preloader only movie to preload your present movie cleared of it<s present preloader.

And a I also suggest you re-compress that sound, cause a 5MBs preload on a slow connection is murder!

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[petermidi]

Thanks again - your help is GREAT!
The preloaders you gave me work on %bytes added...not just % frames so the audio file is fine!
And thanks for the thought on the audio - I'm actually trying to demo audio I've created so if I could...I'd actually like to make it BIGGER! But MX only lets me export mp3 at 160....when I'd like to do it at 192 - where Mp3s really SING!
Thanks again,
Peter

 

[oldnewbie]

Ÿou're welcome.

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