ActionScript 2.0 :: Preloader For Dynamic Image+flashintro?
May 4, 2005
Im making a flash intro that is 37 kb in size, and on top of that i want to pull in images dynamically. I am having a crapload of trouble trying to make a preloader that loads the swfs embedded contents AND the external stuff at the same time, all in one, and then starts playing.
Its either really jerky and retarded, doesnt display till the last 90% or so, loads the image after it starts playing, or just doesnt work at all. Ive tried tuts on the site but I cant get it working, cause they seem to be aimed at preloading external stuff in the swf once the swf itself has loaded and then you clik a button "Image 1" etc.
How do I use a dynamic preloader [say a circular preloader that I've designed myself and not the ProgressBar preloader] to load an external jpg. Obviously, the jpg would be contained within a movie clip, say, 'imageHolder'. In short, I'd like this dynamic preloader to load the external jpg into the movie clip 'imageHolder' placed within my swf.All that needs to be figured out is how to attach any dynamic preloader to load external pics.[code]
i am in the midst of working on a game, and i need a preloader .i have one that works fine, it's a pic and some text with a load bar and a % value shown. but i don't want a damn bar, there evil!!! so i want to fill-in the white space with light green, is there an easy way to get this done?
I have a MC called image_mc. When I load an image from XML, I want the centre of the image to be over the MC.Here is my code which isn't working. Currently, it positions the top left of the image at the MC regardless if the image is portrait or landscape.
Code: pic = portfolioTag.childNodes[num].attributes.IMAGE; // LOAD IN FIRST PICTURE IN XML FILE, first occurance of IMAGE NODE[code]....
I've created preloaders for sites and I understand the mechanics of a preloader fine. They are not complicated. But in my current site I am making use of a lot of dynamic loading such as JPEGs and SWFs etc. I want to create a preloader that I can apply to anything I'm loading, basically just a colored rectangle with a loading bar.
I thought I could figure out how to create a dynamic preloader but it seems that I keep running into unusual constraints in Flash. My thinking was to make a movie clip preloader that I export for actionscript, then attach it to the stage and call a function passing it the object I am loading. Then this preloader would run the usual preloading script but instead of referring to the main timeline it would be referring to the object I passed in. I'm updating the load status with an onEnterFrame function but my preloaders start at 0% and don't change until 100% so obviously the clip is not updating and at this point I'm just not sure where to go with this preloader.
I have a carousel that I am creating that recieves information from an XML file that points to a couple of .png's with corresponding "tooltip" messages that pop-up on rollover. I have searched all over the place, and I can't quite seem to figure it out. Can someone help with a guide on scripting a simple preloader for the actual content that the XML files points to? I will give you my .fla and source code.
Code: import mx.utils.Delegate; var numOfItems:Number;
how to add dynamic text as the tutorial didn't work for me(that worked). but how to preload the text as it appears later than the movie which had already preloaded(i made a simple preloader for now) the address [URL]
I am a little stuck as to where to begin; I have created aphoto gallery and now need to add some preloader capability to it.The images are brought in via XMLList etc... What I have in mind, Iwould like to display a preloader untill all the images are readyfor viewing - not wanting to preload individual images one by one)I also have a document class within the gallery swf file, Ibeleive that this may cause conflicts with attaching a preloader toframe 1 - I have tried preloading the gallery swf file via apreloader.swf; the end result still leaves me with having toprovide a preloader within the gallery swf.Can anyone point me to any good examples, for me to get on
I have made a random image loader for a slideshow, but the preloader does not work for it (I grabed the preloader from a previous website I made) Is there a way to preload the images or the slideshow and/or have the next image pre-load while the current image is playing. I have attached a zip file of the random image loader
In the image scroller that i implemented, its taking too much time for loading the images,So I hope it's better to monitor the loading progress of images and providing a preloaderBut how to implement it when more than one images are in the scroller. I meant how the calculations to be done when multiple images are loading.
I would like for the website preloader to recognize the random image loader that I have on frame 8 of my siteI have a basic preloader on frames 1 and 2(frame 1)
I am using location.loadMovie("image 1.jpg") to load images into my site, seeing how these images are not within my swf. but externally stored they load when I goto the location in the timeline, not in the beginning of my swf file with the other content (after my preloader runs) is there a way to have a preloader show up ( I want to use load % and movie clip for preloader) and tell you how much is loaded so someone knows there is an image there that is being loaded and not just a blank screen?
I am trying to build a simple preloader. I have 4 movieclips on stage and on each one I am adding an image that comes from an xml file: theMap = new XML(); theMap.ignoreWhite = true; theMap.onLoad = function(success){ if (success) { theNodes = theMap.firstChild.childNodes; [Code] ..... Everything works ok but as the jpgs are a bit heavy I'd like to preload them. Is that possible?
So I'm trying to create a preloader that uses an image as the loading bar. I have long image, somewhere around 6x1, and I would like it to load from left to right. I previously used a tutorial for create a general loading bar which used the scaleX to load. However, that won't work well for the image, as it starts squashed and only looks fine at 100%. [URL]
ActionScript Code: stop(); addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,loaderF); function loaderF(e:Event):void
I am having trouble getting my preloader to run. I am loading images via XML into a scrollPane, when I click on an image I call the function addRoom. The images are taking longer to load than I expected so I wanted to add a preloader. My image is loading but I can't see the preloader.
ActionScript Code: //create a container to hold the rooms images var roomContainer:MovieClip = new MovieClip();[code]........
I'm trying to dynamically preload images - without success The Scenario:I'm passing a string to the swf from the web site - image path i want the preloader get the TotalByts of the image, preload it and disply it
I'm making my portfolio site. I would like to make a preloader in after effects(100 frames). Since I don't know much about actionscript I was wondering if it is possible to load a new frame each percent? It should load my main.swf and then open it. So i don't want it jump to frame 2. Might there be any other ways to do achieve this, or is it the way to go?From what i understand this should not be much of a code...
break down preloader into smaller sections so i can understand it better , load a preloader but without the preloader bar graphic and preloader code of the bar and graphic, just see how to transfer the percentage of the movie which has loaded, and by showing the result in the dynamic percent_txt box on stage this preloader i am realy am finding difficult but i so need to understand the concept var percent:Number = Math.floor(_root.getBytesLoaded()/ _root.getBytesTotal()*100);
After thinking over this for sometime It's a tad more advanced than i think I'm at, at the moment.So this idea for the preloader, its a single lined textbox 44 characters long. The idea is that once you click on the object a .length determines the length of the text then subtracts it from 44, then while the preloader.onLoadprogess is doing its thing i'd like to add a "."+preloaderStatus to the textfield (the preloaderStatus is the 10% etc to 100%)
So it'd start as : 1) Yaiks 2 while loading) Yaiks.....................20 3 finished) Yaiks.......... .......................100
But at the end the 100 will stop at 44 with the right amount of "..." in the middle determined by the length of the original text in the field.
I've watched Lee's video on the Flash CS4 preloader a few times now but have not been able to figure out how to switch a movieclip for the dynamic text field.
Here's what I'm trying to do. My logo is a handwritten font. I've used the eraser tool over 100 frames to simulate the handwriting taking place, during the preloading process. Hopefully this will start at Frame 1 and go up to Frame 100 based on the percent of the external file loaded.
I just don't get how to change the AS from the video tutorial to have it work for my application. I don't have the 'percent_text' dynamic field obviously so the two lines which pertain are wrong, but that still doesn't get the movieclip [called logoLoader] to engage the script.
i read the Preloader and Transition for Dynamic Files tutorial by claudio and i tried to use twise in the project. it works fine, the buttons work, in fact i did not change the code in the tutorial_complete.fla, i did the same for the photos.fla, and it works fine, but when i published the tutorial_completes.wf, i came with these two problems:
when i click the photos button in the tutorial_complete.swf, it load the photos.swf, but the code in the photos.swf does not work. it tried to change the name of the instance names and the labels, but nothing. the effect in the main buttons is great, but there is a broblem in the in the photos.swf buttons. files zipped here:[URL]
In this tutorial (Preloader and Transitions for Dynamic Files) there is an internal preloader that I wish to animate so it would paly a sequence before the new file loads. The sequence would then repeat itself until the new file does load.
This pertains to the Preloader and Transition for Dynamic Files tutorial here on kirupa. I've used this tutorial many times before but now for the first time i am using navigation that is inside a movie clip. instead of directly on the stage. I'm having problems with the content loading it just always says loading. Is there something that i would have to change in the transition code or my button code? all the code for my buttons is inside of nav_mc movie clip. here is my fla. to take a look at
