External Preloader for Flash website

programming flash
1

Hi!

I am posting my question here in this forum, cause if
anbody can help me, then it’s sure someone from
Kirupa! Kirupa just rocks!! :wink:

I have a website which is mainly designed in flash.
The flash file opens on a html page.
On that html page, there is also another flash file
which plays a mp3.

I saw a great preloader on your site:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader_component.asp

but how can I get it to load both flash files, the
mp3 and the html file and then jump to the
html page, when finished loading everything.

I have already tried html-preloaders, too but I
only found ones that preload images, but no flash
files.

Thank you very much for your help!

Cheers
Saint
:wink:

2

Check the tutes. There are quite a few about preloading.

pom :slight_smile:

3

but are there ones for this kind of thing?
I haven’t seen one that will preload an html page while preloading several flash movies within it. I have seen the question asked a few times in places, but not answered.

would it be out of the question to make your whole site in flash?

4

I didn’t see he was trying to preload an HTML page. :stuck_out_tongue: I don’t think it’s possible. But you can preload the Flash file and the MP3 separately, and when both are preloaded, open the HTML page, no?

5

First of all, thanks for your answers =)

Probably it is possible to preload the sound and the flash
file and then open the html file.
But how do I tell a flash preloader that it has to
preload both separate flash movies
(the main and the one with the sound)?
All preloaders I found were
built on that “go to next scene/frame etc.” base.
So that the preloader just had to load the whole movie
and then play it.

How do I tell a preloader to load external files???
Thats my main problem :frowning:

I also checked the tutes section, but I couldn’t
find anything on that particular problem.

Sorry for bugging you, but I am really stuck with that
problem.

6

About building the whole site in flash:

Well I tried…but I got stuck with a script for a
sound player which I just couldn’t include in the main
movie. So I decided to make two flash movies and load
them into the same html-page

:smirk: