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Bignewbie

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Feb 22, 2001
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Hi guys,

please take note on the upper-right side of your browser, there you can find the icon that animates whenever you r changing pages or surfing other websites. My question is can we duplicate this in flash? the animation is never a problem, the problem is how to make flash sense that the browser is downloading a page. is this an apparent limitation of flash?

Any ideas? hope to hear from you guys soon!

thanks

biggie
 
If you were loading movies into a flash movie (using load loadmovienum()) then you could use the get bytes loaded and if the bytes loaded was not equal to total bytes then keep playing the loading movieclip Regards

Big Bad Dave

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well, that the problem dave, im not using all flash in my site. i combine flash with html, javascript and ASP documents. in my country, most users are on dial-up connection and its hard to put up an all-flash site since its kind of heavier than plain old html. I was thinking more like make flash know that the user is currently downloading a page. the tricky part there is making flash know that page downloading has finished.

 
If you can determine, by other means (java or whatever...), that the downloading is finished or is still occuring, the tricky part is certainely not to pass on that info to the Flash movie.
Can you pick up that info from the browser?
In other words, as much as I hate NS, can you have your own java function picking up on that stupid lower-left % progress display? When it says it's done, passing that info to a Flash is really not the problem!

Regards,
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