Requesting help with loading external JPGs

Hi, this is my first post to these forums and I am not sure if my question have been answered a million times already or not, though I did use the search option and nothing came up that was helpful. So I apologize in advance if my question has been driven into the dirt.

I am pretty much a newbie with flash (only used it for about 2 weeks) and I know only the basics of actionscripting, and what I would like to do is to be able to externally load .jpg images [with preloader] into my main flash movie when a button is pressed.

I read this tutorial
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader_transition.htm
and tried to emulate it but with jpgs instead of swfs, and it didn’t work for me.

Here’s my website to give you a better idea of what I am trying to do.
http://www.digitalempiredesign.com
As of right now, all of my images in my galleries are embedded within the main swf, and that makes the file size pretty big, and will only get bigger if i’m going to add more images, so I figure it would be wise if i try and load these images externally. So I was hoping if you guys can help me out in the right direction as to what to do.

~regards
polloloco81

nice site man! i like it. well done!

oh… do you mind me asking you question? how did you centered your flash site?

I am also new to Flash like you and managed to create my first crafty website, but its not centered, and I cant figure out how to center it. Can you help me to put it into center plz!

thanks in advance!

It’s pretty easy. I just created a table with 3 rows, and centered it in dreamweaver mx and placed the flash movie in the middle row.

You can only dynamically load in Non-Progressive .jpg images… keep that in mind.

As for preloading…

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15472

*Originally posted by polloloco81 *
**It’s pretty easy. I just created a table with 3 rows, and centered it in dreamweaver mx and placed the flash movie in the middle row. **

I see, and how did you attached the movie into it? Em sorry, I told you em new to this things. You may think em pretty dumb eh? :beam: