Hello in here.
This is my very first post. I am hopeing to become a frequent user of this forum since I think it hands out some rather good information.
I am very new to flash. Actually never made a single swf file yet. Beeing a webdesigner for some years now, I thought its about to move along and try and create a project in flash.
I am growing tired of the web browser boundaries, with some javascripts and some code not showing right in some browsers. I feel very limited often, so I turn to flash, since its loaded with a 3. party program, hopefully handling the visual things alittle more nice. Along with the fact that my webbanners dont have to be some 200k large animated-gif banners.
So where do I start?
I have this project in mind. It is more or less a simple task in my mind and when doing it only in html and javascripting. But now I turn to flash and I am one big “?” 
Here is the plan in very short:
- I have several large maps I would like to display
- There have to be some mouseover effects on the images, like MAPS are done in html.
- I have to have somewhat some “layer” effects I can be able to turn on/off in checkboxes. An example can be town names are not shown untill the user press the checkbox with townname as the title. Then the “layer” show.
All the maps should in some way be linked together. They are like 200k large in 60% quality jpgs.
Now… I would like to start out by making a preloader. I used google for the last 3-4 hours, with only confusing results. Just to see in the end, all the turtorials where for just Flash MX. Some scripts endicated that they didnt work in Flash MX2004.
Since by map site will contain much information and will be large in k/bytes I have an idea that I have to split up the entire map site up in a swf for each map. Maybe im wrong?
I looked in these forum and saw some pretty nice turtorial on making some simple things. But its just abit to hard to cope with all the new info without some proper screenshots on the ongoing process.
I now have these few questions (wow I am getting a long post - which was certaintly not inteded).
How would any of you surgest I break up my site idea?
How and where can I find a good preloader turtorial that works with Flash MX2004. It have to contain a % bar and and simply not just run an animation saying “loading”… it have to be somewhat alittle more advanced, and to contain the “so-much%-is-complete-loading-bar”.
Why do my first posts always scare away people so they squelsh me? 
Best regards, Andy, Denmark.
Please by all means write your answer like you treat me as a newbee, becourse I am. Just booted flash, and waiting on some nice help, from a potentional forum
