Preloading jpegs

1

I’m always conscious of the dial up user and because of this I use preloaders quite frequently. The only way that I have been able to manage preloading pictures is to make a swf with each image and a preloader within that swf. The main movie then calls in the swf. Because the amount of jpegs keeps getting larger and larger I would like to be able to just throw a bunch of jpegs in a folder and have a preloader within the main movie detect the amount of data being loaded. Is this even possible? Thanks in advance…

2

yes, flash has the wonderful functions, getBytesTotal() and getBytesLoaded(). use these functions on your movieclips and you should see how a preloader is made :wink:

3

I currently use these functions on the preloaders of each swf that loads in. I fail to realize the code that I code use with my load movie command in my main movie. Do you have example code I could see?

4

You can use these functions on a movieclip containing the jpeg as well. Just think of them as separate swfs :wink:

5

stop();
myInterval = setInterval(preloader,10);
function preloader() {
if (getBytesLoaded() >= getBytesTotal()) {
play();
clearInterval(myInterval);
}
loadBar._xscale = getBytesLoaded() / getBytesTotal() * 100;
}
but1.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie(“picts/1.jpg”, emptyClip);
};
but2.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie(“picts/2.jpg”, emptyClip);
};
but3.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie(“picts/3.jpg”, emptyClip);
};
but4.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie(“picts/4.jpg”, emptyClip);
};
but5.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie(“picts/5.jpg”, emptyClip);
};
but6.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie(“picts/6.jpg”, emptyClip);
};
but7.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie(“picts/7.jpg”, emptyClip);
};
but8.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie(“picts/8.jpg”, emptyClip);
};

Here is the code that I’m trying to use on the first frame of the main movie. How do I target the jpegs that are loading and then have the load bar move accordingly?