Why doesn't preloader stop movie?

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I’m pulling my hair out on this one.

Here’s the fla if you can help:

http://www.argoncreative.com/test/testpreloader.fla

The movie has a preloader in frame 1 but the movie just plays through ignoring the conditions of the preloader.

:frowning:

<cursing his flash ignorance>
t2d

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I was unable to download the fla but do you have a stop command in the first frame at the beginning of the code??

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(If you right click and “save target as” and choose “all files” instead of html files and change the “.html” extension to “.fla” it will work.)

I tried it both with and without a stop. I’m assuming there usually should be one in the parent movie?

If I do the movie with a stop in the first frame of the parent movie, the PRELOADER just sits at frame one and nothing happens.

t2d:angry:

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Can anyone help, please?

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Sorry man I was asking a friend here and got side tracked. I am still trying to get it, that preloader is weird to me it seems to be loading itself. BUt I am no expert you will get an answer before I get one. DId you use a component??? Because I know of a better one.

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No, it’s a strange preloader, I know, but I can’t see why it would interfere with anything. I made it up because some of the regular scripts I was trying (like _framesloaded == _totalframes) wasn’t working for some reason.

I’m open to any suggestions if you don’t like the way it’s programmed.

I just want to show my client how long this is taking to load (which is why I wanted a preloader WITH a loading bar).

Thanks VERY much for your help!!! I’ll be looking forward to your answer.

t2dC:-)

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This preloader I use for these situations where you just wanna a quick loader.

http://www.flashcomponents.net/component.cfm?nav=2&id=42

Also there is a very good tutorial here on the board

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Somtimes Flash ignores the first frame of a timeline.
Try moving your as to frame 2…

By general rule, dont put any AS in the first frame of any timeline.

Let me know if it helped.

=V=

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Thanks folks.

I can’t use a preloader component though because the client wants this for Flash 5 as well.

Valor, there is no AS in frame 1 of the movie nor the preloader movie.

Grrr…

Can anyone figure out why this file is doing this???

t2d

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  1. The link in the first post doesn’t work, I get a page full of Gibberish.

  2. The preloader component sucks anyway

  3. From the gibberish I could make out that you are using the _framesloaded method of preloading. I don’t like this method of preloading.

There are at least 3 preloader tutorials on this site along you can use (Disreguarding the preloader component tutorial), all with better methods than the _framesloaded method.