First of all thanks to Kirupa for the great site and tutorials. My question is, after using your preloader tut found here (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader.htm) I have a few things I’d like to add, but don’t know how. I’d like to have the same loading effect (preloader progress determined by % of movie loaded) but I’d like to use the 2004 ProgressBar component. I’ve gotten the ProgressBar component to work in event, polled, and manual mode but none of those will do what your tutorial’s loader will, which is show progress based on bytes loaded. If for some reason that won’t work, I’d at least like to be able to add multiple lines of text in to the preloader “Loading” message area, but I changed the movie clip to multiline and altered the code like so with new effect:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
var bytes = _root.getBytesTotal();
var bytes_loaded = _root.getBytesLoaded();
if (bytes_loaded == bytes) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(2);
this.kirupatxt = “movie loaded”;
} else {
_root.gotoAndStop(1);
this.txt = “Line 1”;
this.txt = “loading (” + bytes_loaded + “/” + bytes +")";
}
}
Also, the preloader message does not appear until about 3/4 of the way through loading. I’ve tested it on many different speeds.
Thanks!
SC
----After typing all of this out a found the other tutorials that seem to answer it. I’ll keep poking around just to be sure…but it’s late and my eyes hurt. :pirate:
-SC
