Can anyone figure out why my preloader won't work?

programming flash
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I have finally managed to get my automated slideshow to work using alpha tweens and a setInterval function, my next problem is that my preloader won’t work, in fact I can’t even get a static text box to display in the preloading frames. I have followed 2 tutorials on the preloader and have made a few before with no problem but this time its just not working at all.

Here’s the fla:

http://www.alicow.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fader.fla

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks for any help,
hectors

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

scotty(-:

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pls check the [COLOR=darkorchid]attached[/COLOR] file. I’m sorry I can’t upload it inside the forum 'coz of the file size. pls follow the link and you can find a download button at the bottom of the page.

I’ve dumped the whole movie clips to the stage and clear export for first frame. That forced that flash player to load the movieclips before the main time is loaded. I don’t think that it is a good practice to include the images in the library insted of loading it externally.

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Thanks for that NovemberRain, that seems to have been the problem, the file size is a little larger but as you say the images shouldn’t be in the library anyway. I realise that it’s not good practice to have the images in the library and would have loaded them dynamically using xml (thanks to the kirupa tutorial!) but I was specifically asked to give the designer something they can just slot into their web-page with out any need for coding / extra files at all.

I really appreciate you taking the time out to look at this for me.

Hectors

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If you want to add more images without any coding it’s better to prefer XML and stored the images in a separate folder. The user can edit XML file and just upload the images to that particular folder.

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Thanks for the link too Scotty, I have learnt some useful things there
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