Preloading issues (not the common ones I've read about in these forums)

programming flash
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I’ve been scouring the web for an answer to this question. But no dice. I have a basic preloader on the first frame of my main timeline. In the second frame I dropped all my movie clips, sounds, graphics, etc…pretty much the whole library – and I made sure no symbols were being exported to the first frame. And on the third frame is where all the goodies start (where I tell my playhead to jump after whole movie has loaded). And I have no embedded fonts (anymore).

My preloader will not start from the beginning – 1%. According to the bandwidth profiler, there is 62kb worth of data on the first frame of the main timeline. Though all I see is the text field to display the loaded percentage.

What could possible be getting loaded to the first frame?

The one thing I thought of is that on like the 15th frame of the main timeline I’ve created an XML object to load images and text from a database. But why would that matter if that’s attached to an event listener anyway. That’s just a random thought though.

Anyway, any ideas you can throw at me would be super helpful. This project is due tomorrow night. Cheers. :kir:

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I solved my problem. I don’t know if this is something that’s well known, but flash is importing its own classes to the first frame without letting you know (i.e. for any components you might use). So if you go under Publish settings (CTRL SHIFT F12) and next to the Actionscript version drop down box, clicking the Settings… button. Change the export frame number from 1 to 2 (or whatever frame might be using your components, classes, etc.).

Hope this helps anyone that comes across this thread. Cheers.