Hi there!
I’ve been reading and reading though this forum for nearly 3 days without finding the excact solution i wan’t, so i’m very sorry if it has been mentioned somewhere!
ok… here’s my prob:
I’ve almost completed my first flash site ever. It has been build as ONE .swf file . I figure out the final site will be about 100 kb in size so I really want a preloader!
what i’m thinking of is… when you go the my homepage url. you’ll see a preloader bar preloading my site (site.swf). when it’s done, u can acess my site.
so i figure out i’'ll need TWO swf’s. one showing the animation of the preloader and being sort of a “container” for my site. and the other SWF being my site.
I really have NO clue at all how i’m going to do that?! i have read Claudios guide without really understanding
Please… if there are one very nice person out there that would help me, i would be very thankfull!
this is his code… by HOW(!!) do i get the preloader to get “getBytesLoaded” and “getBytesTotal” from an url. (http//www.mysite.com/site.swf) so that it loads THAT file instead of “This”.
You don’t need that. It can be 1 SWF file and all you need to do is have it go to another scene or however you want to organize it. Just set it up so that after it is done preloading then have it go to a stop frame that has your ‘button’ which leads into loading your site.
yes i know… but… how do i tell “getBytesTotal” and “getbytesloaded” to get informations from my movie @ http//www.mysite.com/site.swf ?
Could u possible give an exsample?
thanks alot for taking your time for that exsample. But it doesn’t really answered my question. HOW do I tell the preloader that it shall preload the object found at forexsample “www.mysite.com/SITE.SWF” . so it preloads the file found at the url and then go to the next frame where a button is, so that the user can access the site by clicking the button.
I tried to explain that already. You cannot preload something else from your movie. If you look @ the FLA you will see how it all works. You just need to put a btn outside your site. If you want then put it in a different scene and then after the preload is done then have a btn that makes it go to a different scene. Even with external preloading it all has to exist inside of 1 SWF. If you look @ Claudio’s example you will see that it doesn’t leave the SWF. Also, you can check out This site I made. I use external preloaders there but if you see it doesn’t start until you click on the section you want.
ok… thanks ALOT guys! i finally understood the whole point. that it’s not possible to load any url.
Scene 1 where my whole site is… there is alot of layers. so what you are saying, is to move all layers key frames about 3 frames forward then made a layer named “preload” where the animation and actions of the layer is located right?
in that way i’ll start at frame 1 showing the movie loading, the jump to frame 2 where i’ll put in a button, from where the user can click to see the site.
one more thing… “btn” = ?
but again… thanks so much! you’re very friendly people!
Janik
hmm i doesn’t seem to work… i’ve made the “preload” layer as yours… only changed it to jump to frame 4 when it’s done loading.
Please look at the pasted pic… it’s a pic of how my movie is orginazed.
