ActionScript 1/2 :: Load Preloader From Child Swf?
Dec 16, 2010The following preloader and code to laod the first swf is in the fiest frame of the main movie.
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The following preloader and code to laod the first swf is in the fiest frame of the main movie.
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I've hit a brick wall with regards to a parent movie loading a child mc with a preloader. The idea being, if the child is displayed on the screen, and hasn't fully loaded, then you view the preloader.Each mc (parent & child) work fine independently. It's when the parent loads the child, the child sits there stunned on the first frame. I'm very new to AS3 and am still grappling with loading movies/preloaders etc.
I'm also having issues with setting the contents of a loader in a MovieClip variable. The below code is fine, but when I try and reference the x and y of _lounge rather than the loader _loungeL, it gives me "Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference". I'm guessing it's saying the MC doesn't exist?Here is the AS of the main mc
package
{
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.navigateToURL;
import flash.display.Loader;[code].....
I'm externally loading children .swf files into a UILoader component using nav buttons which works dandy. However I've started to add a preloader into a child .swf (I'm putting the preloader by itself in the first scene named 'aboutpreloader' which when it loads, it opens the first frame of scene two named 'aboutcontent'
Now this works fine when testing the child swf individually (please read on, don't assume its not fully working in the parent, cause it kind of does).I test the parent .swf with the externally loading child .swf just through the 'test movie' menu option. And it doesn't work. It plays the preloader over and over and doesn't bring up the second scene of the child .swf
When I choose to simulate download (parent .swf), it works. It does load correctly and opens the second scene in the child .swf.
I have a picture on the stage that has multiple items that have hotspots/links over them that should open a child swf on top of the background and show details about the items. then have a button in the child swf itself that removes the child from over the background so the user can click on another item etc.I found this code in someone's post and I am trying to modify it so that works for multiple swf files...it currently works for a single swf.I wan to pass the name of the button in front of the .swf in the URLRequest to have the same name as the instance name of the referring button. But I can't figure it out. Here is the code I am using on the stage
View 2 Replieshow do I stop the preloader to LOAD an item when I click in another item to load.. Is that possible? Here in my example the preloader runs perfect, but when I start another mouseevent CLICK the old loading still active (on BANDWIDTH PROFILER, but the Preloader Movie Clip is removed).. How Do I stop the event when another different loading starts?Not visual aspect but functional.
View 1 RepliesI want to load a preloader (call it "target app") into my own Flash application (call it "hosting app") via Loader. The target app loads like a typical preloader several other SWF files via relative paths and starts the target app.
If the hosting app and the target app are residing in the same directory everything works fine. If the opposite is the case (target app not in the same directory as hosting app) the target app is not able to find the SWF files it has to load.
I know, yet another loadmovie+jpg+preload question. Please bare with me, I just need a pointer of how to load all the JPG's using one preloader... I have one container MC (fotos_mc) that loads 36 different MC's with JPG's in them:
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i have my preloader as my first scene in my website and when i preview it, it still loads the whole .swf file , and so all you see is a blank screen for 2 min - how do i get the preloader to load? ( i followed [URL] for the preloader and only two images are on the first frame with the preloader....)
View 2 RepliesI have a guestion about preloaders. Every preloader that is available on the web loads the entire .SWF.But I want the preloader to load a specific mc. So that the .SWF will run as soon as that specific mc is loaded.
in addition: Is it possible to have an mc in the .SWF that will only load when the user pushes a button?
I have a parent that loads a child that contains a ScrollPane. The ScrollPane then loads another child (timeline) that has buttons. I would like to be able to click the button within the timeline and have it load the SWF in the ScrollPane child. Making it easier to visualize..
View 0 RepliesSo I have 1 MC called "mc1" what I want to put some mc inside. I was using this to load some MC.[code]and in some other swf, it's trying to replace the content with another one.[code]so how to remove the child before I load a new one? with these the child keep stacking and I don't know how to remove the child from where.
View 4 RepliesI have a main swf file (AS 3). A button opens a child swf (a photo gallery in AS 2), on top of the main swf. The child swf should load an xml file, to get the photos.Everything is on the SAME domain.Main swf, child swf(gallery.swf), images.xml are in the root of the server.Photos are in a folder called gallery.
What happens is that, when I access from the main swf, calling the child swf with the button, the photo gallery opens perfectly but loads ONLY the first photo, the descriptions of ALL the photos, ALL the thumbnails...but when I click the thumbnails to see them, the other photos can't be displayed/loaded?!...only the 1st photo is displayed/loaded
If I create a separate html page, with only the photo gallery swf, everything works perfectly. Every photo is loaded and displayed[code]...
I have my main swf file and two external swf files i'm trying to load into the main one. I have preloaders for each external swf file but when I have the main swf file it won't load the preloaders it seems to be loading the entire thing and then showing the swf. How do i change that to showing the preloaders i already have? here is my code at the beginning on each external swf,
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I have a preloader and I want it to load each section when called with this code:
Callback function:
caps_mc.btn_continue_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, nextpls);
function nextpls(e:MouseEvent):void {
MovieClip(parent.parent).nextSWF("startPage", parent);}
The code above tells the preloader that it is finished with the startPage and in the preloader it should next load faq, but I get an error saying that nextSWF is not a function when it clearly is, Is it even possible to use a preloader to load up swfs in this way??
Preloader:
import flash.display.*;import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
var loadedSWF:Loadervar progressPercent:Number;
function startLoad(SWFName:String):void { loadedSWF = new Loader(); loadedSWF.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, gameLoaded);
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Here is the error:
TypeError: Error #1006: nextSWF is not a function. at startPages_fla::MainTimeline/nextpls()[startPages_fla.MainTimeline::frame1:7]
I am trying to build a website with a preview window to display pieces of work when you click on a thumbnail. Each piece of work will be it's own swf, because there will be several images to show in each example, and I want to have a cool blur/fade in and out of each, and I want it to loop.
Anyway, I am trying to figure out how to load the swf into a "preview box", and have a preloader calculating the size and all that. So when you click a button, depending on the size of the external swf, the preloader will pop up and on completion, the swf will load. Not sure where to put the preloader code or where I should put the preloader in the first place.
I need to load external swf's into a gallery. But for some reason I can't picture how to set it up on the timeline. This is for college homework.
I have the entire gallery set up and working but I just don't have the preloader for the three external images. However, I do have a preloader working fine for the site itself.
Here's the code for the external swf's:
ActionScript Code:
loader.load(new URLRequest("1.swf"));
var movieName:String;
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basically done creating this flash file, is just for some reason the preloader doesn't appear until 80% load..
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I have a preloader that I downloaded... What I want to do is have this load only a certain percentage of the move before it continues to play the file.I assume that I have to edit the line of code that gets the total amount of bytes for the file itself... expressed below:
Code: Select alltotal = this.getBytesTotal(); // Movie Length
Since the variable is 'total' how do I make it load only 25% then start? I
Code: Select alltotal = this.getBytesTotal(25); // Movie Length ?
Code: Select alltotal = this.getBytesTotal() * .25; // Movie Length ?
I would like an combobox to load jpg's into a container when a value is selected, and with fade out and in when a photo is change, and if possible a percent preloader. I have this as to make the combobox load swf's, but could anyone please be so kind to make it so it loads jpg's with fade in and out and percent loader? :
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im dynamically loading text and an swf from an xml file...the swf and text should appear at same time...but the text appears too fast than the swf..ive to use preloader until the swf loads.. how and where ive to use preloader function....
View 1 RepliesI have preloader and I want to load External swf file.and file is loaded it automatically go to loaded file.
View 1 RepliesI have this preloader code that should not play frame 3 until it is all loaded, but for some reason while my prelaoder bar is showing progess, frame 3 is already loaded.
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I have my main swf file and two external swf files i'm trying to load into the main one. I have preloaders for each external swf file but when I have the main swf file it won't load the preloaders it seems to be loading the entire thing and then showing the swf. How do i change that to showing the preloaders i already have?
stop();
myBar._width=0;
preloadI=setInterval(preloadF,100);
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I made a preloader that works perfectly to load one of my .swf's on my machine, but how do I make it work on a site? I'm mocking up a site currently just using local files.
View 2 RepliesI work for the NPS, and they have an outdated CMS. I have no rights to upload an .html file, or edit one that the CMS makes. SO, I am forced to use their little deal to display my .swf files. url...I made an eHike in as3 Flash CS4. It has two scenes, the first scene is the preload, second is splash content and ehike content. The problem is I cant get the preloader to display in IE. I have all actionscript content exported to the second frame, as talked about here:[code]I have tried many different ways to load the preloader.there is a simple text field for the percentage, and a simple 100 frame animation. preloader_mc.[code]The CMS lets you decide in the popup window if it is resizeable or not. This works in IE (stopping people from resizing), but not in firefox, people can resize it. Is there any way to disable the resize in AS3? Again, I understand that your supposed to export the .html file with these settings, but I have no permissions to upload or create new .html files.
View 1 RepliesI would like an combobox to load jpg's into a container when a value is selected, and with fade out and in when a photo is change, and if possible a percent preloader.I have this as to make the combobox load swf's, but could anyone please be so kind to make it so it loads jpg's with fade in and out and percent loader? :
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// ComboBox
function handler() {
chosen = _root.combobox.getSelectedItem().label;[code]...........
okay, i have a preloader in the first few frames. when i test it all it does is load the movie and then run the preloader.
View 14 RepliesI use the attached code to load the attached xml file, but it will only load the first 20 nodes. I have moved the 20th to the 21st and the 21st up to the 20th and it will still load the first 20, so it isn't a formatting problem.
View 14 RepliesI have a drop down box that is loading in different movies when selected. But when I select the second option in the drop down box, the movie gets loaded on top of the next movie. I saw that there is a removeChild(), but i'm having trouble finding where to apply it in the code below? If I put it in the function, it creates errors of course.[cod]e....
View 3 RepliesWhen using the timer class do where do i put what needs to be executed every tick?
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