ActionScript 1/2 :: External SWF With Movieclip Preloader Included
Jan 12, 2011
I've got a problem headaching me all afternoon long: Inside an SWF I want to load an external SWF inside an empty movieclip. On that frame I've got: emptymovieclip.loadMovie("external.swf"); Inside the external SWF I've got a Preloader on the first frame consisting of a movieclip of 128frames. I'd like to appear from the first frame to the 128th related to loading percentage. When loaded it must go to fram 2 and this is the script on the movieclip:
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Feb 12, 2010
I have a main Flash movie that preloads three external SWF's just perfectly.Everything is great...except the 1st movie is not smooth and really slow, the 2nd movie is a little better, and the third movie is the best.It's a rather simple Flash portfolio...I'm thinking it could be a stacking issue-but I've approached it from so many different ways instead of wasting my time shooting at thin air, I thought I'd give this forum a shot.How can I make these three movies play smoothly?I've attached the main movies FLA just to assist.
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Mar 7, 2010
I understand the basics of OOP and classes, but I can't seem to find an answer to something between classes and static functions.
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Apr 12, 2009
How do I make an external movieclip preloader? Anyone know of a good tutorial because I have been trying for the past 12 hours to get a preloader to work(no not 12 hours straight lol). My file is 2.6 mb so I really need the preloader. Or if there are any free programs that make preloaders that would be good too. Or any components that have a tutorial with them(also needs to be free).
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I have used flash for a while, but I've never been able to fully grasp the preloader, and how to write code for it. I understand the function of it obviously, but whether to put it on the movie clip or separate actions layer confuses me. I am trying to create a preloader with a movie clip that loads an external image.
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Dec 18, 2011
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Jan 15, 2004
changing a preloader I have into a preloader that can be used for loading external swf.Now the code for the preloader is
loadedbytes = getBytesLoaded();
totalbytes = getBytesTotal();
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totalkbytes = Math.ceil(totalbytes/1000);
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May 22, 2005
... I've had my preloader successes already, but something still doesn't work for the external movies... I'm loading the main movie - which contains several chapters, loaded as external swf's - with the following preloader on the first frame, rest content from second frame on:
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Aug 14, 2010
I'm trying to create a preloader for a site I am creating. Originally I was going to make it an internal preloader, but I ran into that issue where the preloader doesn't start until 50% (or more). After searching these forums for a solution to "that" issue, I found it suggested that the best way to fix it is simply do an external preloader instead.
When testing the preloader using the bandwidth editor, I see that the preloader animation isn't starting now until it's at 100%, instead I simply get a white screen. Once it reaches 100% the preloader animation runs through and then...nothing. My main.swf doesn't load. It just stops.
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var fileToLoad:Loader = new Loader();
var fileURL:String = "testmovie.swf";
var fileRequest: URLRequest = new URLRequest(fileURL);
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preloader is my movieclip with the animation, and preloader.loading_txt is a textbox inside that mc which displays the % loaded. I wanted to make it so that once the preloader (and its animation) reach 100%, the preloader mc then plays frames 101 - 124 (which are a small transition animation into the main site). Once it reaches 124 it's supposed to call the main.swf to load.
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Sep 18, 2010
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and on a movie clip with the name all pages in frame 6 i load some swf files with this way: swf_path="mysongs.swf" loadListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip,
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Jul 19, 2011
I have been trying to create from scratch and/or use SpinningPreloaderComponent to create a preloader for a SWF that loads an external flv in frame 2.What seems to be happening is that The preloader exists for about 5 seconds and then jumps to frame 2 and continues to load without the progress meter. Although I've tried to use bytes total or default settings, nothing seems to work correctly.So I'm wondering if this problem is created because the preloader can't measure the flv size? Also wondering if it is possible to start playing the flv at say load of 20% as a buffer rather than 100%. I have also set the flv as progressive when trying to insert it directly via Dreamweaver CS5 but all I get is a blank screen.
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Nov 1, 2009
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Nov 23, 2010
I have a project where I want to use different pre-loaders from time to time so I wanted to know if there was a way I could have my project use an external swf for the pre-loader ?
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Jun 4, 2010
I'm new to the forum and I am a student at TAFE in Sydney. We have a project which I've managed to get together OK, 5 page Flash site (SWF's) one main template page with bk'gnd, banner and menu bar and 4 other swf's that load into the main one with their own content and they all load images and external dynamic text with css. The site is working perfectly, WOW wat a headspin, lol.
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The preLoader has to have a progress bar and it works in the other project. I've tried making that preloader work but don't quite know how to set it up. My understanding of the preLoader is that it loads images into the browser before everything else and the progress bar shows the progress of the downloading images and I think the preloader I have done would suffice if I knew how to set it up properly.
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Jan 4, 2011
the code of preloader for external swf. and also tell one we load our file in external swf tell what path we have to give to attached new file in the external file.
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Feb 8, 2010
I have a preloader for an external swf with the following code.
stop();
this.createEmptyMovieClip("mask_mc",1);
preloader_mc.setMask("mask_mc");
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but when I play the main movie & click on my button for this external swf to load, it loads the main movie again. I need the preloader to load the new external swf. I understand it is because of the _root appearing at 3 places. But I dont know what to replace that with.
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Aug 19, 2005
very simple preloader for external images or swfs?I need the loadMovie and preloader to be activated when the movie enters a certain frame.
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May 3, 2007
why my buttons don't work every time I put a preloader on my external swf? It just reloads the page[URL] click on about us.. you'll see what I'm talking about.. the others will work, but there isnt a preloader so it takes a second to load the other pages.
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Sep 19, 2009
I know it has been explained so many times but I can't get this f**er to work. Has been killing for almost two days, went through gozillions of posts and forums and still nothing,so many things go wrong. The case is simple:How do I put an external swf into my loader swf? both swfs are 700x700 and I want the embedded swf ("16.swf") to start when the loading bar ('preloader', size 232.1) goes to 100% .I have three frames:
1:
var amountLoaded:Number = _root.getBytesLoaded()/_root.getBytesTotal();
preloader._height = amountLoaded * 232.1;
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Jan 4, 2011
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Feb 6, 2012
I have a project that has one Main SWF, and that loads many external SWF's. This is working great. However, i would like to have each external Swf have it's own preloaded on the first frame of that SWF. I currently have a preloader that works on the first frame of my main SWF, and the code looks like this:
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this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onLoading);
this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
function onLoading(evt:ProgressEvent):void {
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Create a NetConnection object:
var netConn:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
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Apr 20, 2009
I'm trying to have a preloader animate according to how much of the external swf has already downloaded on the user's computer. However, several errors like :
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: MovieClipLoader.
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Jun 1, 2009
I have my main movie, and from there an external movie is loaded which has a scrollpane on it. Problem is the preloader will not show when the external swf is loaded...when the button is clicked, nothing happens for about 3 seconds and then eventually the scrollpane comes up. I have the preloader on Scene 2, and it works for all my other external swfs so I know its the scrollpane issue.[code]I have tried have the "export to first" frame linkage thing but that doesnt work... does anyone know how best to do this?
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Jul 28, 2009
Having problems with creating a simple progress bar with percentage loader recieving bytes loaded from a external swf file loading into a empty movieclip using as2. When exported the progress bar is complete and reads 100% and doesn't load the swf. Other attempts resulted with the loader not being shown and the swf being loaded, which is good but, the progress loader doesn't appear.
Here is the code I'm using.
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//First Frame
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Aug 19, 2009
I export all my stage assets to frame 1, so the external preloader FLA is the approach I've been using for a while to show the nice percentage before the real SWF is loaded. I've just finished with a project and I'm getting errors when the file is done loading.The file works fine as long as it's not it a Loader component (stand-alone SWF), but as soon as I try to get it in the preloader it gives me a ton of errors.
The only major thing I did differently with this project is that a number of classes have their own individual Event.ENTER_FRAME listeners and that *I'm making a lot of stage calls* from various classes to get locations and what-not. I'm thinking it might have something to do with the latter, since I used the stage width/height for a lot of the positioning (stage.stageWidth/2, stage.stageHeight/2, etc).
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Sep 19, 2009
How do I put an external swf into my loader swf? both swfs are 700x700 and I want the embedded swf ("16.swf") to start when the loading bar ('preloader', size 232.1) goes to 100% .
I have three frames:
1:
var amountLoaded:Number = _root.getBytesLoaded()/_root.getBytesTotal();
preloader._height = amountLoaded * 232.1;
loadtext.text = Math.round(amountLoaded * 100);
2:
if(_root.getBytesLoaded() == _root.getBytesTotal()) {
gotoAndPlay(3);
}
else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
3:
This is where the 16.swf is supposed to play.
How to set up the containers etc?
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Feb 20, 2010
How do I put an external swf into my loader swf? both swfs are 700x700 and I want the embedded swf ("16.swf") to start when the loading bar ('preloader', size 232.1) goes to 100% .
I have three frames:
1: var amountLoaded:Number = _root.getBytesLoaded()/_root.getBytesTotal();
preloader._height = amountLoaded * 232.1;
loadtext.text = Math.round(amountLoaded * 100);
2: if(_root.getBytesLoaded() == _root.getBytesTotal()) {
gotoAndPlay(3);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
3: This is where the 16.swf is supposed to play. I even tried using two separate clips. the files are here:
The preloader is here: [URL]
And the loaded clip is here: [URL]
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Apr 2, 2011
the external swf loads before the preloader finishes completely. i've attached the code below.
Movie clip loader
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();
mcLoader.addListener(myListener);
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