How get preloader to load early?

programming flash
1

After consulting several different pre-loader tutorials, I tried to build a very simple pre-loader. I placed the following on a movie clip in frame 1.

onClipEvent (enterFrame){
bytesloaded=Math.round (getBytesLoaded());
bytestotal=Math.round (getBytesTotal());
percent=(bytesloaded/bytesTotal);
fullpercent=(Math.round(percent100));
this.loadbar._width=(this.loadbar._widthpercent);
if (bytesloaded==bytestotal){
_root.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}

I placed the published html file on the web. Although it isn’t large (I attached a medium-sized image as a “load”), it takes forever to load and does not show the pre-loader. What is my error? Any ideas?

2

You should your image or content to be loaded on frame 3, on frame 2 put the actionscript “gotoAndPlay(1)” without the quotes. and in the last line of your actionscript for frame 1 (your preloader) change it to “_root.gotoAndPlay(3);” again without the quotes.

The way you have it, the preloader doesn’t check itself to see if it has fully loaded or not, by making the changes I point out above you would force frame 1 (preloader) to keep rechecking itself (running and displaying the loading animation) until it is fully loaded and then, and only then would it have fully loaded the content (image) and be able to display it.

Make sense?? If not, tell me which part is unclear and I’ll try to explain better.