ActionScript 3.0 :: Preloader Approach - Internal And External Assets
Nov 5, 2009
Working on my first real project in as 3.0, trying to decide how to best work in a preloader. What I have is a single swf containing some assets, and a target to a main doc class. After loading those assets onto the stage, it runs through a routine to load several other swfs, and then 'does stuff' with them... anyway. got all that working nicely. How, now to best track the loading of the main swf? If I understand it correctly the Loader class is purely for loading external assets. well - what about internal assets?
Got this:
ActionScript Code:
//A large SWF file can monitor its download by calling
this.root.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, func)
I think it would be called AFTER the whole main.swf has loaded. In AS2.0 i could target _level0 to get information back about the currently loading swf...
ActionScript Code:
initPercent = (_level0.getBytesLoaded()/_level0.getBytesTotal());
But, again, these are internal assets, not even living in memory yet. As far as I can tell - I need to use a preliminary (separate) swf to load the main.swf. (Like i used to do with AS2) - But if there was a method of targeting internal assets - a 'self loader' that would be cleaner...
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