I am in a muddle about this preloader

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please someone help me. i am stuck. i have a movie that is 1 frame long. all actions, attachments and so on happen on that 1 frame. everything is loaded into _level0. i need a preloader for the movie. the preloaders i have used all show when 90% of the movie has already been loaded. i there4 need a to develop a separate movie to call the main movie. the separate movie is to be the preloader movie.

please help me in developing this movie. i know i need to use ‘loadmovienum’ parameter. i also want to use the ‘getbytes’ parameter aswell.
what do i need to do in order for this to work?

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Whats your code for your preloader?? There are lots in the tutorial section and all over the site if all you need is how to make a preloader…

3

this is the code for my preloader movie

frame 1
loadMovieNum(“index2.swf”, 1);

frame 2
nothing

frame 3
actBytes = _level1.getBytesLoaded() || 0;
totBytes = _level1.getBytesTotal() || 100;
percent = Math.round(actBytes * 100 / totBytes);

if( totBytes - actBytes > 10){
bar._xscale = percent;
gotoAndPlay(2)
}

frame 4
stop();

as you can see the preloader is suppose to load the main movie (index.swf). while it is doing so the preloader should do its thing

http://www.dcobbinah.co.uk/bridgette

some say it works others say it doesnt. when i test it it doesnt work. not sure if it only works mx 2004 actionscript 2.0 and flash player 7

i m using mx with flash player 6 and it doesnt seem to work

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Who says the preloader works?? It shouldn’t because there isn’t a stop sign from frame 3 to 4, so it should just go straight to 4. Anyways, like i said:

preloader tutorials here at kirupa:

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=00040c2f-sp00000000&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=preloader

and lots on the forum search…

5

no where in that link you gave does it have a tute about a preloader loading a different swf. it talks about loading movie on the next frame. different types of loading and thats it. notihng to say 'this is a tutorial to teach you how to have one swf/file be a preloader for another swf/file.

anyone who can point me in that particular direction i would be most grateful

6

Then you could’ve tried typing something else in the search…

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader_transition.htm

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*Originally posted by buzzby *
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anyone who can point me in that particular direction i would be most grateful **

I think that this is what you are after.

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=359643

8

thanks for your help on this.

i just cleared out my cache and looked at this. FANTASTIC MATE. it works.
it has been baffling me for so long

your help is much appreciated