# Pleas check out my first site in Flash & Swish

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198
**Category:** design
**Created:** [September 3, 2001, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198 "2001-09-03T08:34:17Z")
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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/1 "2001-09-03T08:34:17Z")

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I would be very happy if anyone could take the time to have a look at my first flash  
\<a href=http://www.dannenberg.net/silk\>[www.dannenberg.net](http://www.dannenberg.net)\</a\>

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/2 "2001-09-03T11:59:51Z")

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Looking good. I do want to mention that you have it set to a stoped state when it loads, which means I had to right click on it to get it to play.

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#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/3 "2001-09-03T13:52:04Z")

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He must have changed the actionscripts once I looked at it cause it played perfect for me and by the way nice layout but I think the interface should take up more browser space I am on 1024x768 resolution and its a very small interface to me but besides that good job!

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#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/4 "2001-09-03T14:17:34Z")

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Thank you for your kind answer, it seems as if it’s a small bugg there somwhere, because the stopmotion have happend once or twice to me but othrwize it’s ben running, dear I to say OK.

I still have some problem with the loading but I hope to solve that and the have it preloaded as soon as I can figur out how to do that.

John

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#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/5 "2001-09-03T14:22:29Z")

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Thank you for your speedy reply, the size of the interface was set to 600x300 just as a test to see if it were possible to squeeze in some information in that small space.

John

PS I must make me one of those cool banners, yours the cruelest I’ve seen DS

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#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/6 "2001-09-03T14:47:20Z")

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I can help you on learning how to make a preloader its fairly simple!

Here it is:  
Don’t start your actual flash movie until frame 2 and add this code in frame 1 of the main movie timeline:

if (\_framesloaded \>= \_totalframes) {  
gotoAndPlay(2);  
} else {  
gotoAndPlay(1);  
}

simple as that just add a movie clip in frame one for a preloader animation! take for example my site which is still under construction:

\<a href=http://www.danalu.com/dalu\_layout.swf\>Click Here\</a\>

To start the movie after the preloader to a different scene just change it to this:

if (\_framesloaded \>= \_totalframes) {  
gotoAndPlay(“intro”);  
} else {  
gotoAndPlay(1);  
}

Replace “intro” with the name of your movie remember keep these " " if you want it to be a scene or take them out for a frame number! If you want the preloader to go to the movie and stop after its done loading just put this:

if (\_framesloaded \>= \_totalframes) {  
gotoAndStop(2);  
} else {  
gotoAndPlay(1);  
}

If you do not get what I am saying just reply back and I will explain more but this should work if you know at least kinda what your doing!

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#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/7 "2001-09-03T14:51:24Z")

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And just to tell you thats a test site so don’t make fun of it I was just seeing if I could clone a DHTML menu!

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#### Post date: [September 3, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/8 "2001-09-03T22:15:28Z")

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There is a simpler preloader… in fact I’m creating the smartclip for it tonight… (forgive me if the a/s is not exactly correct, I’m doing it from scratch.)

MC… has actions associated with it, but nothing inside of it.

onClipEvent(load)[  
\_root.stop();  
]  
onClipEvent(enterframe)[  
if \_framesLoaded == \_totalFrames  
\_root.play();  
]

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#### Post date: [September 4, 2001, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/9 "2001-09-04T07:51:23Z")

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I have the night of tonight so I will sit down and see if I can’t get the preloader to work alright.

I by the way never make fun of peoples work, I like the colors and the no nonsens style of your site, myself I tend to lose myself in effects sometimes.

Once again thanks for the comment and helpful tip  
John

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#### Post date: [September 4, 2001, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/10 "2001-09-04T08:08:27Z")

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The code looks a bit complicated I think I have to wait until I know more about scripting.

I thought I was Einstein when I was able to scip the scenes (one for each button) and just load an MC per button.

But thanks anyway  
John

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#### Post date: [September 4, 2001, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/11 "2001-09-04T09:18:30Z")

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me too.

Well I got the smart clip done… but it still needs some tweaking. I’ll post the URL in the Flash 5.0 forum as soon as I upload. From that point it will be simply a matter of downloading the clip, and putting it in the first frame of your swf.  
It will just do it’s thing from there on out.

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#### Post date: [September 4, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/12 "2001-09-04T13:48:38Z")

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I think the site is wonderfull…I really like the music too…I use the same software…sounds like DanceEjay or TechnoEjay which i think is wonderfull!!

good luck

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#### Post date: [September 4, 2001, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/13 "2001-09-04T18:17:03Z")

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Well thank you for your nice remark on the site, I will sleep happy tonight, your right about the program it’s e-jay dance.

Nice fast, simple and not to expensive, I did three different loops for the site one normal house and one latin style but this was the most neutral one.

thanks again for your kind word  
John

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#### Post date: [September 4, 2001, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/14 "2001-09-04T23:24:22Z")

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Hey John,  
I really liked the animation. It had a nice professional look, and the backgrounds fading into view when a button was clicked is just great! I’m on a 1024x768, and the animation could be made larger. If not, you could make the animation display in a separate pop-up window. That would be cool as well!!

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#### Post date: [September 5, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pleas-check-out-my-first-site-in-flash-swish/4198/15 "2001-09-05T22:37:23Z")

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Thank you for the kind words, I after been reading some opiniums I think that a window sniffer would be nice it’s a small java that check your screen resolution, or just a meny where you can choose your resolution.

once again thank you for your nice comments  
John
