I’ve created preloaders for sites and I understand the mechanics of a preloader fine. They are not complicated. But in my current site I am making use of a lot of dynamic loading such as JPEGs and SWFs etc. I want to create a preloader that I can apply to anything I’m loading, basically just a colored rectangle with a loading bar.
I thought I could figure out how to create a dynamic preloader but it seems that I keep running into unusual constraints in Flash. My thinking was to make a movie clip preloader that I export for actionscript, then attach it to the stage and call a function passing it the object I am loading. Then this preloader would run the usual preloading script but instead of referring to the main timeline it would be referring to the object I passed in. I’m updating the load status with an onEnterFrame function but my preloaders start at 0% and don’t change until 100% so obviously the clip is not updating and at this point I’m just not sure where to go with this preloader.
Can anyone either give me a general explanation of how I can successfully create one of these preloaders or provide a link to a tutorial?
