Preloader help

1

i have an animation that can be 100 frames long but it’s not necissarily so.

i would like this animation to be my preloader basically i want to write a script that gets the bytesloaded/totalbytes and makes a percentage and then goes to the frame corresponding to the percentage

so if my animation is 50 frames long and the movie is found to be 50% loaded by the script then the playhead should be on frame 25.

does that make sense?

thanks very much for your help

2

Well you need to take whats loaded, divide it by the total. multiply by 100 and then tell the movie to gotoAndStop at that frame…


nTotal = _root.getBytesTotal()/1000;
nLoad = _root.getBytesLoaded()/1000;
nPrecent = Math.round((nLoad/nTotal)*100);
_root.gotoAndStop(nPercent);

Now that code will have to go in a movieclip with an enterFrame command, and that moveclip will have to be present in every frame…

3

no … that will only work if you have a 100 frame clip

b/c it goes to the frame that is the percentage number

look at the example i typed … so if my animation is 50 frames long and the movie is found to be 50% loaded by the script then the playhead should be on frame 25.

4

nNumber = Math.round(_totalframes * (nPercent/100))

gotoAndStop(nNumber)

5

here’s what i have


nTotal = _root.getBytesTotal()/1000;
nLoad = _root.getBytesLoaded()/1000;
nPercent = Math.round((nLoad/nTotal)*100);
percentage.text = nPercent;
nNumber = Math.round(_totalframes*(nPercent/100));

if (nLoad < nTotal) {
	gotoAndStop(nNumber);
}
if (nLoad == nTotal) {
	gotoAndPlay ("main", 1);
}

why isn’t it working?

percentage.text is a text box i have in it’s own layer that i want to display the current percentage in text form while the load is in progress

6

Do you have a loop?

_root.onEnterframe = function() {

//code goes here

}

7

like this?


nTotal = _root.getBytesTotal()/1000;
nLoad = _root.getBytesLoaded()/1000;
nPercent = Math.round((nLoad/nTotal)*100);
percentage.text = nPercent+"%";
nNumber = Math.round(_totalframes*(nPercent/100));
_root.onenterframe = function(){
if (nLoad == nTotal) {
	gotoAndPlay("main", 1);
} else {
	gotoAndStop(nNumber);
}
}
8

no,

_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
     nTotal = _root.getBytesTotal () / 1000;
     nLoad = _root.getBytesLoaded () / 1000;
     nPercent = Math.round ((nLoad / nTotal) * 100);
     nRemain = nTotal - nLoad;
     percentage = nPercent + "%";
     nNumber = Math.round (_totalframes * (nPercent / 100));
     _root.movieClip._alpha = nPercent;
     if (nRemain <= 0 && nLoad != 0) {
           gotoAndPlay ("main", 1);
     }
};

and use a tween just give that MovieCLip the instance name “movieClip” and change its alpha. thats what i did with that file.

http://www.livetoskateboard.com/test/bleh2.fla

9

right … i could just tween the symbol with action script … but i’d like to be able to put any animation in there that i want

=)

thanks very much … i’m going to go try it out

10

em … i’m a complete *******

i saved over my original file b/c i got the preloader working the way i want it to … but now the buttons don’t work

what happened to them? (i.e. load the site and try to click a button)

11

well i made it work again … i also changed the name from bleh to site.fla … http://www.aaronsleeper.com/site.fla

but i guess i can’t have a preloader.
i made the preloader work … but at the cost of my buttons in the next scene. i don’t see any conflicts but then again i probably missed something.

stupid scenes
i wish i could have a preloader :frowning: