Preloader

1

hm…

ive got a problem with my preloader…
first of all, i did one myself. it worked, but the first frame had a size of 16 kb (it only contained an image, a little bit of AS and a dynamic textfield to display the percents already loaded).

i thought smth must be wrong. i downloaded Lostinbetas Preloader-tut-file and copied the first 2 frames into my animation.

i tested it, and guess, the first frame has got a size of 19 kb!! it dures a while to load it with 56 k, thats why the visitor only sees the loading-bar from 29% to 100 %.

ive got NO idea how to fix that problem. i mean, can one loadbar have a size of 16 kb? thats weird …

please help me, ive got no idea how to fix that.

2

i tried this:

add an empty frame in front of the preloader. when i test the film, this (EMPTY !!!) frame has got a size of 17 kb. so it dures about 17 seconds to load until the preloader starts. any ideas how to solve that?

3

Do you have any movie clips that are attached dynamically? If you have then they are probably set to export in the first frame of your movie; thus the pause.

Try this thread for a more in depth explaination;

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13212&highlight=preloader+export

4

no movieclips. only 1 variable loaded from a php-script, but that should be done when a certain frame is played…

ive got no idea how to do that…

5

Mmmm. In that case ich weiss es nicht.

Sorry.

6

i have this same problem and i’m pretty sure it’s unavoidable unless you have a very, very small frame on which the preloader is locaded. Since I have a pretty big bitmap on my preloader frame, it takes a while for it to load…that’s why a put a site initializing text box in a frame before that…so when the preloader shows up it’s already at about 30%.