ActionScript 2.0 :: Playing A Movieclip While Preloading?
Apr 6, 2007
I am trying to figure out how to connect a preloader with a movieclip I made. Essentialy what I want to happen is for the heart graphic to start out black and white and as the percentage preloaded increase, the color version of the heart I masked will appear. Here is the link to the .FLA file. I have a basic mask over the colored version of the heart that I motion tweened to move. Now that I have this setup, how do I plug it into a preloader to enable it to sub as a load bar. Partially coloring the image as more of the document is loaded.
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Apr 26, 2005
apologies if this seems like a redundant question... i've been reading through all the turorials and forum threads i can find, and am just confused at to what exactly i need to do next.... my first time trying to use preloaders but am finding i need them in order to make my project run smoothly.... my situation: want to preload 5 swf files into my main movie, and have them at the ready to play when i want them to (either by an onEnterFrame or onPress).
i started working with some preload array script from Scotty i found on one of the threads, but elsewhere i've seen info about putting extra frames into the uploading swfs and am unsure what i need to do with this or how it would fit in with the below code. right now, when i try to play one of the uploaded swf files nothing is happening, and i'm guess my code is wrong there too, but don't know what to put....
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I have several movies that will be loaded into a main movie. I am loading the movies when the user chooses to open each movie. The problem is that then the user has to wait until each movie loads. Is there any way to change this?
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May 22, 2009
I've made a video class that holds a video. I want to be able to create an instance of this class, give it a video to preload, check if its all preloaded, then start playing it.Currently the only way i can find to start it preloading is to call 'ns.play()', however this starts the video actually playing.Is it netstream that i should actually be using here?
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package{import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.net.NetConnection;import flash.net.NetStream; import flash.media.Video;import flash.events.*
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Oct 4, 2009
I'm trying to preload a movie so that it doesn't stutter when it plays. So i thought preload the whole flv and then let it automatically play. I followed Adobe's tutorial [URL] on 'Controlling web video with ActionScript 3 FLVPlayback programming' and added a progress bar all using components. But I just can't get it to work, the progress bar disappears when it loads and the movie starts playing before its preloaded. Here's the online version; [URL] and I've attached the .fla too.
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I understand how to load external swfs into an container with the loadmovie command. I also understand I could make that container invisible so I don't see the movie right away.However, I want to script a preloader that loads swfs without starting them - just gets them into memory. how to do this and then play them on command?
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May 12, 2008
I've searched around and havent really found anything definitive about this. Im trying to preload five flv files and then get them to play one after the other with as little pause in between as possible. Im thinking I might need to create five netstreams and then pause them, check to see if theyre loaded, start playing then first when they are with the others hidden, then after flv one is done show the container for flv two, etc. Ive done a test and I still get a bit of a jump in between flvs. Has anyone done then and got it to work without that hiccup?
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May 17, 2008
I've tried endlessly to make sense of the solutions that other people have posted. But I cannot seem to get any code to work my my purposes, so I decided to post my own thread.I have a main parent Flash movie that I need to load 7 exteral SWFs into. Each of the SWFs is like its own scene in a longer movie. The external files are called:
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mc2.swf
mc3.swf
mc4.swf
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The final parent movie should play each external SWF movie sequentially so that it appears as one combined movie (so none of the loaded SWFs are actually playing at the same time - they should only play one at a time, one after another).I want to preload mc1.swf, mc2. swf and mc3.swf into the cache before the parent movie starts playing(and I would like to include a progress bar to indicate loading status). Once those SWFs are preloaded, I would like them to start playing sequentially while the rest of the SWFs load in the background.
Basically,I have a long Flash animation that I decided to split up into several individual movies.I've using the parent movie to seamlessly string together my individual movies to give the appearance of cohesion.I have determined that I should use the MovieClipLoader Class and loadClip() to accomplish what I am trying to do.However, I have a very limited knowledge of actionscripting, so this has been a major challenge for me.
I am optimizing the parent SWF for the web, and it's important that the video plays seamlessly, so I cannot put individual preloaders onto each external SWF. They have to preload at the beginning so that when each individual SWF is called, it's already loaded and no preloader is required.
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Aug 1, 2009
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Feb 9, 2006
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I have a Flash file with a lot of animation and effects applied. I am trying to optimize my Flash by moving away from timeline animation and using Actionscipt wherever possible. My file consists of several layers. I have used preloaders before but they were pretty basic. I âm comfortable with the framesLoaded and totalFrames coding but don't know what frames to count. I have my preloader in a MovieClip on the first frame of the first layer; therefore, the preloader is a child of the main stage. The other MovieClips are children of the main stage as well.
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I have two buttons named buttonOne and buttonTwo. When I click buttonOne, the movie clip named oneMc should play its intro and then stop then after that whenever I click buttonTwo, the movieclip oneMc should play outro animation and then movieclip twoMc intro comes in.
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So at the beginning when my SWF loads up it also loads up a sequence of animated clips like [code]...
And my clipLoaded function is[code]...
The clip4 file being loaded in has a stop() at the first frame. Later in the game (clip4 is the "outro") I use[code]...
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Another one doing exact the oposite, it moves the object down when pressed. And should stop at the beginning of the tween. This button also has to stop when the button is released. The button playing the movieclip backwards doesn't work as it should be. It doesn't reverse the movieclip, it just jumps to a previous frame.
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I've got:
PHP Code:
var myListener:Object = new Object();
myListener.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.getAscii() == 87 || Key.getAscii()== 83) {
_root.ground.play();
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}}
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addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,playRollClick);
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I'm using AS2 (Flash CS3). I have an invisible button that on rollover should play a movie clip. Within that movie clip I need it to play frame 33. However, when I use the following code it does absolutely nothing. Instance name of the movie clip is "flavorIcons".
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