Preloading flashmovies = one step further

[orbitph]

Hey all,

got a problem, i know how to preload a movie but now the tricky part, creating a nice percent counter which indicates how much of the movie is loaded.

anyone got an example for me??

just doing fine with flash, wonderfull program >:O>

greetz, if you have tips or comments send them to me. I am a human and humans could give wrong answer

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[BlastRadius]

Create a movieclip with a short animated sequence with an obvious begining and end. Place the movieclip in the first frame of the scene with the stop action assigned to the frame. on the moiveclip on clip event select enterframe then
if(_root._framesloaded=_root.totalframe){
_root.gotoAndPlay(2);
}else{
this.gotoAndStop(Math.floor((_root._framesloaded/_root._totalframes)*this.totalframes

 

[oldnewbie]

An easy preloader!

3 frames in it's on scene, the first in the scene order.

Frame 1:
Blank keyframe with:

if (_root.getBytesLoaded() >= _root.getBytesTotal()) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 1", 1);
}

This frame is only to avoid seeing a Flash frame of this preloader, on subsequent visits to your site, that is after the first visit, and assuming your movie would still be in the user's cache.

Frame 2:
Keyframe with:

// Calculate loaded, total KBs and percent.
loaded = Math.round(getBytesLoaded() / 1024);
total = Math.round(getBytesTotal() / 1024);
percent = Math.round((loaded/total) * 100);
// Define 1 or more textfield(s)
bytesLoadedOutput = loaded;
bytesTotalOutput = total;
percentOutput = percent + "%";

if (_root.getBytesLoaded() >= _root.getBytesTotal()) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 1", 1);
}

Frame 3:
Keyframe with:

gotoAndPlay(2);

Now add another layer (or layers if needed) to create a loading message and/or your textfields.
Frame 1 should be kept blank, and the other layers only cover frames 2 & 3.

Using a combination of the 3 defined textfields, you can display something like:

LOADED (bytesLoadedOutput) OF (bytesTotalOutput) BYTES.

Or simply:

(percentOutput) LOADED.

Regards,

 

[oldnewbie]

Blast,
if(_root._framesloaded=_root.totalframe){

The above wouldn't obviously work, for 2 reasons...
And please explain how your script would display a % loaded?

Regards,

 

[BlastRadius]

that code is checking to see if all the frame of the movie are loaded, don't need to show the preloader otherwise. If the movie clip has a bar which movies from left to right say over 10 frame this code will move the frames of the bar clip along the timeline until it is fully loaded. I admit it is not 100% accurate in that some frames take longer to load then others but it is deffinatly close enough. I like it simply for the simplicity of the code.

 

[oldnewbie]

Got ya!
But you haven't answered my questions!
Guess Orbitph will figure it out, if he decides to use it!

Regards,

 

[davdesign]

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