Preloader

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ive got a big problem: my preloader starts at 55 percent. this is because the first frame (if i can trust the bandwidth-profiler) has a size of 32 kb. i think this is strange, because the b-profiler also tells me the film has a total size of 35 kb. after the first preloader frames are some small files with transitions only, and then there is the main frame, which has a size of 18 kb :crazy:

my preloaderframe only contains a small bar and a dynamic textfield, just like the tutorial says…

i ve already searched the forums, i found that quite many people have the same problem, but i didnt find any solution…

i do not load any swfs dynamically. the only thing i can imagine that could cause that problem is the embed font which i use for the dynamic textfield in the preloader. is that possible?

please help me :*(

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Hi,
Your right about the embed font, any dynamic text will load in in front of everything, including your preloader, do you have any other dynamic content such as embed fonts or mc with linkage,
that would be your first place to look

SteveD

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thanks for this quick anser.

ive got a lot of embed dynamic text. and i want to keep that. is there a way to prevent the loading in the first frame?

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Hi,
The best way would be to load your text in from a txt file as and when it was needed, that way your main movie would load a lot faster, other than that, I cannot think of a way that you can delay the loading of embedded text.

SteveD

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no. The embeded text will always be loaded before the rest of the movie. Along with any components and/or MovieClips that are exported for actionscript.

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that really suks.

another question: lets say, ive got my index html with a very small index.swf, which only consits of a button and an empty mc. it would have about 5 kb, i guess. what i want to do is load my main movie into that movieclip while displaying the loading progress in the index.swf, not in the loaded main.swf , and when the main thing is loaded, it is displayed. that should solve my problem, or not? because the preloader is in front of all that embed texts and components…

could you please help me?

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Well, basically what you are saying is have a nearly empty swf loading your main movie, the problem will still exist, however there are tutes on this site about preloaders and preloading external swf’, try doing a search for preloading external swf’s and see what you come up with

SteveD

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i know how to load a movie, but i want to know how to display the progress of the loaded movie in the movie were it is loaded into…

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Check the preloader component at http://can_info_guide.tripod.com/
It loads the movie into a movieclip and after loading the loaded movie will replace the loader by being loaded into level0. It starts at 1-3 and ends at 99-100