# New guy requesting help **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [June 20, 2008, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-guy-requesting-help/263898 "2008-06-20T08:57:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d26b3c/32.png) [@Walker](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Walker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-guy-requesting-help/263898/1 "2008-06-20T08:57:27Z")
So hey, I’m Walker, the new guy who has joined, and I’m looking for some help with flash / flash website / flash preloaders. I apologise if a topic like this has already been posted some where, but I’m in a rush, allow to explain my situation. I am currently at college and on a live web design project, we have all done work on websites, and out client has picked one persons style, which we are all working on together now as a team. The team leader (the student whose site has been selected) has choosen to have a flash website and a non flash version. I have been tasked with creating a preloader. I have already read through the tutorial on loading an external image and making a preloader, that displays before the image when running the simulate download. My problem is, I have no idea how I would incorporate this into a flash website, and I don’t even know how to make a flash website, and make everything work. I am willing to mess around and experiment to create the effects I need, but I was wondering if there are any good tutorials that explain how to incorporate the preloader into a flash website, how to create flash web sites, and how to create a variety of effects like images that fade in ect after the perloader has “loaded” If you could also direct to some material from which I could learn the action script code stuff too, if you hadn’t guessed already, I’m a big noob on this stuff, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I thank you in advance, first of all for the tutorials I have read, which were simple and easy to understand, and for any help you could provide for me 🙂 Walker ---
**Author:** ![Insane\_au](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/439d5e/32.png) [@Insane\_au](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Insane_au)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-guy-requesting-help/263898/2 "2008-06-20T15:57:15Z")
The easiest way to insert a preloader is to insert a new frame at the start of your site/movie/game/whatever with the preloader on that. remember to place a stop() command on that frame. Also place a play() command in an event listener function that listens for an EVENT.COMPLETE event. ---
**Author:** ![jitu78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@jitu78](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jitu78)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-guy-requesting-help/263898/3 "2008-06-20T16:27:33Z")
Flash AS2 still works for me, simple way to put preloader for your flash movie. See here, [Flash Animation](http://www.gigaturn.com/flash-work.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d26b3c/32.png) [@Walker](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Walker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-guy-requesting-help/263898/4 "2008-06-23T10:53:27Z")
I have made most of the site following a tutorial, and improvising in parts, obviously this has created some errors and bugs as I have had to further improvise in an attempt to make things work. In one such situation I have crashed to bits of code together, some code from the kirupa tutorial on laoding an external image, and a section of code from the kirupa pre loader tut which loads the same image. This doesn’t work, which I can image is pretty obvious seeing as each tutorial would use different propertie names etc. To be completely honest, I have absoloutely no knowledge of flash what so ever, infact we only started working on flash animations about a month ago, and now I’m trying to create a flash website, which has to be done by friday the 27th. Its a huge jump to make from basic animation to full on working flash website. I don’t know any action script apart from what I’ve seen in the tutorials. I don’t know how these play () and stop () commands work, or what an even listener is… The website I have created so far, just plays through continuously like a movie, as I have no idea how to stop it from doing anything unless a link is clicked. _sigh_:asleep: There are places to find loads of help with CSS, HTML and java ect, why is there no place like this for action script, where do you learn it? ---
**Author:** ![Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d26b3c/32.png) [@Walker](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Walker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-guy-requesting-help/263898/5 "2008-06-26T09:15:01Z")
Okay, first of all, apologies for wasting all of your time and apologies for the double post thats right here :s So finaly, I have to site working basicly, the links work and stuff, all thats left to do is animate the page when links are clicked etc and add a pre loader to it 🙂 thanks for the help you gave any way, it was of some use to me. thats that, hopefully you’ll never hear from me again… unless I become I top master in flash some time in the future 😃 Laters, I might check back here every now and again for a few tips, information, and maybe make some contribution of my own if possible 🙂