Preloader Delay Load

programming flash
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Hi,

I’m having trouble with my preloader. For some reason it doesn’t show up along with anything else until 20% or so of my movie has loaded, the screen just shows a blank background. Once it gets past about 20% everything is fine. Thi is when I am testing it from within Flash using the bandwidth profiler. I tried changing the size of my movie and the modem settings but neither does anything. Any suggestions about why this is happening?

Thanks,
Tome

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Do you have large images or anything that it is trying to load with your pre-loader?

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yea, I did have a somewhat large movie at first load with the pre-loader and I thought that this could be the problem so I took it out but I still have the problem.

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are you using any components on your preloader or movie??

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and Sound Object too.

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I had sound but I took it out, this didn’t do anything either. I have one component, a scroll bar, which appears after the preloader.

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my whole preloader is about 50k and I can’t figure out why, this isn’t normal size for one is it?

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nope can you attach your fla??

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maybe not, I spoke too soon. The preloader still takes the first 40k or so to load before it shows up, even with the background image removed. Flash should be loading only the first two frames before playing the preloader right, since in frame 2 i have an action saying return to frame 1 if not loaded? It should play once those 2 frames are loaded, right?

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Did you also remove your linked objects from library?

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Actually might go wrong is your actual preloader, if it’s graphic intensive it might take a huge space, in which case you should take the preloader byte size out of the getBytesLoaded so the thing starts at 0%…

Remember if you have any sound in the swf it will load before the preloader, thus taking time…

edit: mine had the same problem and i place the go back to frame 1 action on the third not second frame, i dont know why but it solved my problem…

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Check your linkage in the library. If anything is exported in the first frame, then that will most likely be the problem. A preloader of 40k is too big I think, a preloader should be a small filesize bar or somethin’. Try tunin’ the filesize of any images down.

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Hey all, I think I’m getting closer to figuring this out, I hope. I deleted all of my layers and left one layer with five frames of nothing and the bandwidth profiler is telling me there is still 32k in the first frame which are being loaded. Is there anything Flash could be loading in the first frame which isn’t on the timeline, is that even possible? Could it be global variables?

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variable report attached.

I don’t know if this will help…

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fonts - i think it loads them before loading the rest…

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I’m having exactly the same problem. I think the problem is in the fonts as MLK said before!
I have a huge amount of text in a scroll bar, the fonts are embed, and my preloader only starts on the 20%!
I’m using the very same preloader on 4 different movies and the problem only exists in the one that have text!!
I don´t know how to avoid that!