progress bar headache

[worldly1]

Hello all,

Ive made several flash movies (Flash 8 Pro) with my very rudimentary knowledge. I went to apply the progress bar component (never used components before) thinking, naively, that I could just drop it into frame one and add some basic script so it would stay in frame one showing the progress of the loading of the entire movie and, when all frames were downloaded, move on to frame 2. I've done a more static preloader message before with:

if (_framesloaded >= _totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay ("next");
}

But I now need the progress bar. Well, I'm completely confused by the help file and how involved using the component seems to be. Can't it be a simple as I describe above? Am I not seeing the forest for the trees?

Any help or direction would be much appreciated.

Scott

 

[oldnewbie]

I don't like (or use...) components either, and especially the ProgressBar... You'd be better off with the MovieClipLoader()...

http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/3/1/MovieClipLoaders-Part-1/Page1.html

Or check Senocular's...

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

Or if you still want to go with the ProgressBar...

http://www.webwasp.co.uk/tutorials/b47-preload-progressBar/index.php

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[worldly1]

Thank you, oldnewbie! I appreciate the direction.

Scott