Okay, the problem I’m having is that the preloader doesn’t show up when the flash is loading, how do I remedy that? (I have 3 frames, like the tut, and the first two are the preloader, while the third is the actual thing) I can post the .fla, if need be.
Thanks for any and all help,
–Elios
If you are checking it in Flash, then that is why. You will need to view your movie as show streaming in Flash to see if it will work.
To do this just html CTRL+Enter to preview, then CTRL+enter to show streaming (and CTRL+Enter again to stop show streaming).
Also, if you don’t have a lot of content in your movie there is no reason to show the preloader so it skips it for that.
I just ran into this myself. However, after you hit Ctrl+Enter…to test it out…go to the Flash Player “Debug” menu and select a lower setting such as 28.8 etc. and when you hit Ctrol+Enter again (or you can always just click on the Player’s View Menu and select “Streaming”) you’ll see your preloader if the file is big enough.
-hope that helps.
Hutch
I was testing it via a server, and streaming it in flash just shows a white screen (like it loaded from the server). Anyway, do I have to set anything property wise for the flash?
Thanks,
–Elios
Please note that your movie does NOT have to be 3 frames long, just any content for your movie must be on frames 3 and up, nothing on frames 1 or 2. I just wanted to clear that up.
It just shows you a blank screen? Even when previewing in Flash? I know if you load sound through AS out of the library (or a big image) and you set the Linkage propety on the clip to export for actionscript that it exports from Frame 0, so all of that loads before your actual movie, causing a delay before you view the preloader and/or the actual content of your site. This is just an effect of doing that, there is no way around it.
That is the only thing I can think of. It makes no sense to me that your movie does not even work after using my preloader. The code has been tested repeatedly over and over with people on this forum who had preloader problems and I gave them mine (this was before I made it into a tutorial), and everything worked fine after that.
Did you edit the code in any way?
I know if you load sound through AS out of the library (or a big image) and you set the Linkage propety on the clip to export for actionscript that it exports from Frame 0, so all of that loads before your actual movie, causing a delay before you view the preloader and/or the actual content of your site. This is just an effect of doing that, there is no way around it.
That’s what’s wrong. I have three clips exported for AS.
Thanks,
–Elios
Oh… ok… if they are big it will show a blank area until they load, and then show your preloader.
I don’t want to sound like repeating myself, but this is something appearing in the forums over and over again… The solution is to load the big swf into a simple one with a container and the preloader. There was a post that aimed to some ways of doing that (Mr. X posted about it, i think). Anyway, although I tried didn’t get to the solution… I would be so thankful if someone brought light to this point. I suggested a tutorial or something :sigh:
The preloader from Lostinbeta should do (i’m guessing), is only a matter of levels (am i right??). But i still can’t get it to work.
Don’t know.
One example of the millions of posts about this matter is this entry… i’m glad I’m not the only one struggling with that preloading code 
Screw it… apparently preloaders are just too hard to comprehend. I spent a long time on that tutorial and all the mods told me it was very detailed and in depth with the explanation, I have also gotten a few e-mail compliments on my tutorial, but no one else can do it!!!
I just don’t get it!
grrrr… no one take this personally… I just needed to vent my frustrations.
Hey, lostinbeta, you missunderstood me!! Your tut and your preloader are just great!! Really, i didn’t mean that i dont understand it!!! (I apologise if i made you think that!!) And I did it and works like heaven!!
The only thing is that when u have a lot of AS in the fist frame it shows a bit late. (but this is not a problem of your preloader, is just flash 
)
The thing is that i see there are a lot of post of people trying to preload a swf fom another. I mean, one swf with the preloader that shows how a big swf loads inside of it (hope I made myself understood :sigh: )
So, I have been trying to do that with your preloader, but with no success… And the thing is that a lot of posts ask about that and i wondered if someone would be so nice to tell us how to do that. Do you have any idea???
Oh, and again, please, believe me, tour tut and your preloader are just fantastic =) (-:
I wasn’t saying I thought the tut was bad, I’ll use it when I don’t have any clips linked with AS, or when I can find a tutorial about running a .swf within a .swf. At any rate, I wouldn’t have wanted to sit there and think of the code anyway (that is to say, not if I didn’t have to).
Thanks again,
–Elios
Your preloader sure did the trick for this newbie. Thanks for the great work and continued efforts to hold our cold little hands and walk us to school!
-Hutch
I know if you load sound through AS out of the library (or a big image) and you set the Linkage propety on the clip to export for actionscript that it exports from Frame 0, so all of that loads before your actual movie, causing a delay before you view the preloader and/or the actual content of your site. This is just an effect of doing that, there is no way around it.
Lost remember when I had those probems about my movie loading from like 60%? Could it be because I used a lot of attachMovie commands?
-brad-
Hey everyone… thanks 
As I said in the post when I said that stuff, no one should take that personally, I wasn’t really referring to anyone in particular… I was just in a grrrr mood at that time and needed to vent… and well… why vent off topic ;)…lol.
bcogs: Hmmmm… could be man, that would make sense. I forgot about that problem. I know when I helped you with it I was pretty much ultra noob then.
Well I thought about it, and the haultrash one did the same thing. i thought about what was common and fouind the I used AS to load an external .swf. It probably loaded the external .swf and then loaded the rest of the movie, which was 70% by then.
Maybe?
-brad-:evil:
Sounds like it could be to me.
So, seems like we are getting to the point, but still no AS to solve it
Here is my frustrating atempt.
Ha! I finished doing quite a few swfs using components (Scrollpane, etc.). Now the problem is not with the components. I thought I will add the preloaders to my movies (which would be loaded externally). After doin so I was like… “wtf?” :q:. I thought I was doin something wrong with the loaders.
After goin thru this forum I realise that everyone is having this problem :(. D**n! This is so S#$T! So has anyone figured out a way to make the preloaders work?
I can disable ‘export in first frame’ for the components I use & that is fine. But the main movie “hdcam” that exists in the library is the one that takes all the time to load as it is around 100KB. If I dont export this to first frame, nothing will load :S. I cant feel kinda dumb askin this but I will do so anyway: Has anyone figured out a way to make the preloader work with movies exported to first frame?
I am attaching one of my flas.
so here’s an external link:
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