I learned last week (from a tutorial on this forum) how to rollover a button and have a graphic appear. I have made my own photo gallery which I’m very proud of. You can see it <a href=“http://www.raindroprecords.com/photos.html”> here</a>.
As you have experienced, it takes forever to load and I’m guessing most people will NOT wait and watch a blank screen wondering if it will appear. I’ve been searching google and forums for hours now and have found a many tutorials on making a pre loader. Unfortunately I cannot find a simple solution. <br>
I use adobe golive to embed my flash movies, and then save as html. Then I upload that to my ftp. <br><b>
Isn’t there a simple way to put a loader on this gallery page without linking the swf or html?
If you want the simplest - SIMPLEST way, lose the idea of a loading bar and just have a spinny graphic or something with the word ‘LOADING’.
To do this move everything on the main timeline to frame 3.
Create a new timeline layer.
On frame 1 put the following action:
ifFrameLoaded (3) {
gotoAndPlay(3);
}
On frame 2 put:
gotoAndPlay (1);
Create another new timeline layer and put in that the looping movieclip_mc that contains your spinny graphic and make sure that it covers both frames 1 and 2.
Ok, I can’t think of an easier way to do it.
Have fun.
