# The Progress Meter tutorial

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-progress-meter-tutorial/111387>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 26, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-progress-meter-tutorial/111387 "2004-05-26T13:59:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![KingLeonard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@KingLeonard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/KingLeonard)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-progress-meter-tutorial/111387/1 "2004-05-26T13:59:56Z")

</div>

Hi there.

First time poster here, hoping someone can lend a hand.

I’m a student learning Flash for the first time. Our assessment piece calls for a Flash presentation, and mine kind of erred on the large side. To help out while it’s loading, I found the tutorial at this site and thought all my prayers had been answered.

However, when testing the output, the file runs up to the byte size, then past it without thinking of stopping.

I’ve tried tweeking the script, e.g. [font=Times New Roman](bytes\_loaded == bytes) [/font]to [font=Times New Roman](bytes\_loaded \>= bytes)[/font], but no joy. Other than that I’ve followed the tutorial to the letter.

Anyone have any ideas? Happy to give more information if required.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-progress-meter-tutorial/111387/2 "2004-05-26T22:55:28Z")

</div>

i dont understand what the problem is.  
is the preloader not working?

sam

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-progress-meter-tutorial/111387/3 "2004-05-27T01:41:51Z")

</div>

> [@maximum\_flash](#):
>
> i dont understand what the problem is.  
> is the preloader not working?

Actually, it is working. It was my problem all along. Rather sheepishly I now realise that while I thought the file size was rocketing past 6Mb, it was in fact barely getting past 600k. I sat and waited until it loaded the full file size and all is well.

I’m now uploading it to a server to test it in real world conditions.

If there’s any interest I’ll post a link when it’s done.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-progress-meter-tutorial/111387/4 "2004-05-27T04:31:47Z")

</div>

id love to take a look at it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-progress-meter-tutorial/111387/5 "2004-05-27T04:38:37Z")

</div>

Here 'tis, just freshly posted.

[The Plantation](http://student.ci.qut.edu.au/%7En1146998/KIN811/final.html)

It’s a university project in Interactive Narrative. The idea is that you obtain context for the main pictures from the thumbnail icons that precede it. With a little work the idea is that you could allow the reader to control the flow of the story. For this one though, we just have to present a single narrative thread.

User comment is appreciated, mainly to see how people read it. I’m interested to see if I’m on the right track.