ActionScript 3.0 :: Preloading Site - Have A Document Root Also For Loader.swf?
Oct 25, 2009
I have a document class called Racine in which I add all the resize events so that the stage takes all the available screen. extract of Racine class :
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As a standalone site, it is ok, but now, I want to make a preloader, and I am wondering what is the simplest way to achieve that by making less modification as possible in my Racine class? Suppose I create a swf called loader.swf loading my site, site.swf, is it possible to have a document root also for loader.swf?
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Sep 22, 2010
I've been working on a little flash app for the last couple of months and now the final hurdle is strapping a preloader on to the front of it. The app is a fla/swf controlled by a Main.as document class written in AS3.
I originally wrote it in CS3 but after hitting my head against a wall for several days trying to figure out how to add a preloader I upgraded to CS5 in the hopes it would be easier. Several webpages (eg [URL]) mention being able to just specify a preloader.swf in the actionscript settings. I've tried adding mine but it doesn't appear to do anything when I simulate download or check it online. Should it really be that easy or am I misunderstanding. There's a surprising lack of info about for CS5.
The other option is to add one into the actual app swf, which I did find a guide for ([URL]) ...but its for CS3/4. I'm willing to give it a go as a last resort, but I wanted to check to see if there's an easier way for CS5.
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Aug 29, 2009
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Sep 9, 2010
I'm trying to build a flash image banner which references an xml document for its content. The banner will automatically rotate through the images based on a set time interval. The user will also have the option to use a next/forward button and a direct slide (image w/caption, header & url) section button. There will always be 5 slides. There will be 7 buttons: a forward button - which shall rotate to the next slide, backwards button - which shall rotate to the previous slide, slide one button, slide two button, slide three button, slide four button and slide five button - these will take the user directly to that slide. I don't really care about Transitions.
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Oct 28, 2010
I'm trying to use the preloading technique outlined in this blog:
and I get this error:
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable Main is not defined.
at global/flash.utils::getDefinitionByName()
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Jul 29, 2009
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How to access the focus property outsite the document class?
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Aug 28, 2009
we all know how the Loader class works, and it is definately a god send.my flex project uses external swfs as assets (buttons, pages, etc).now the problem is that because these assets are loaded after initial application creation, it is sometimes visible to the viewer that these assets are being loaded, (buttons appearing slowly etc).i need to be able to include the loading of all the assets during initial site startup. is there a way to get all the assets into the viewers cache before the site has finished loading?
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Jan 11, 2012
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Aug 27, 2010
How are they related?
Are they the same?
Is using "MovieClip(root)." from anywhere actually equivalent to coding in the document class?
What's different in their effect on the display list?
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Apr 3, 2011
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Nov 30, 2011
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Aug 30, 2010
If I wanted to do something like this:
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horizontalScrollPolicy="off"
verticalScrollPolicy="off"
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Nov 13, 2010
Anyways, I've been trying to figure this out for quite some time.Let's say I have my document class. I'm guessing the document class can correspond to the first thing that gets run? (such as the "main" function in most C++/low level languages).If I set a variable in it:var myNumber:Number = 10;how would Iaccess: "myNumber" from other objects in my stage?Like a movieclip on my stage for example.If I go inside that movieclip into the movieclip's first frame, how would I say:trace(TheDocumentClass.myNumber);Another similar question is, what about the actual stage frame?If I click on frame 1 of my stage, set a variable:var aNumber:Number = 5;how would I access it from other objects?In my movieclip's first frame, what would I put?trace(root.aNumber); ?trace(stage.aNumber); ?
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Jun 26, 2009
I have a full flash website which is broken down into:
- Main movie which contains navigation and interface components
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My client wants me to do something which is proving very difficult and I am starting to wonder if its even possible as searches on the net have given results which don't really work properly.
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When the main movie is requested, its preloader appears which it has a load bar and a "skip intro" button. The difference being, this preloader will be loading the main movie AND the preloader; which the load bar representing both movies load progress.
To complicate matters, if the skip intro button is pressed, the preloader needs to drop the intro movie from the equation and just account for the main movie & thus skip the intro; straight to the content.
The way I have tried to do it is to have a preloader code in the intro which sends the total size and bytesloaded back to the main movie which deals with those values, adding it onto its own size. This is proving cumbersome and although appeared to be working, isn't working propery.
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Mar 10, 2010
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Apr 29, 2010
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Jan 17, 2009
I am preloading a .swf file using the Loader class (myLoader) and a ProgressBar (pb). When the progress is complete I would like to press the button (es_btn) to enter the site(make the externatl .swf visible). Currently, what it does is, the external file is loading and starts playing in the background before I press the "enter site" button, before I call addChild(myLoader);. How do I stop the external file from autoplay -ing and make it play only when I press the "enter site" button?
Here is the code:
Select allstop();
import fl.controls.ProgressBar;
import fl.controls.ProgressBarMode;
es_btn.visible = false;
var myRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("christianfm.swf");
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Sep 28, 2009
So I have a MovieClip symbol created in the Flash IDE with a baseClass of flash.display.MovieClip and Class name of "Square". I have placed it on the timeline of my fla at frame 30 and given it an instance name of "square". How can I control that MovieClip from my DocumentClass? I have an ENTER_FRAME listener listening for the arrival of frame 30. At that time I want to simply do something to the "square" MovieClip. But I keep getting a compile-time error of "1119: Access of possibly undefined property square through a reference with static type flash.displayisplayObject.".
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Feb 16, 2011
I'm using flex 4 to build a program and I am getting this error on one module I call. Does this refer to the module document (.mxml) or the actually xml file the module it calling?
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Apr 22, 2011
I'm trying to reference the document object from various classes in my class library. Everything seemed to be going peachy until I started getting this random, weird error. I thought maybe it was Flash acting up all of a sudden but I tried it on my Mac as well and I get the same error. Basically no matter WHAT I do, I am getting the error:
1195: Attempted access of inaccessible method getSessionHandler through a reference with static type pim:PClient
It's a lot of code, but here is the full code.
// PClient.as
package pim {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import pim.gui.PGConsole;
import pim.loader.PCommandLoader;
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Alright so right now, I have sort of a singleton reference that I'm using so I can reference the document object from any class (without the need to pass the client object to each class that needs to use it). I'm pretty sure I've done this before and had it work, but obviously it is not. I've even tried passing the client object (this) to the PCommandLoader object and it still gives this really strange error (that is without the use of any static methods, etc.).
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Feb 12, 2011
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Parent SWF - document class, MovieClip(root)
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Jan 26, 2010
Im having whta I think is a quite common problem. I recently started migrating form AS2 to AS3 and Im buidling a home made template for all AS3 projects..
I have just loaded portfolio.swf on top of main.sfw. The buttons on portfolio.swf share the same class as the buttons on main.swf
This is the button class:
Code:
package com{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
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Jul 13, 2008
I've got a Flash site up that is almost finished, but it just needs preloaders. [URL]. I plan on using this type of preloader in the gallery section and before the root movie is launched. I'm looking for a preloader that preloads the _root movie, and all of the content it loads on it's level, which will be external SWF files. I plan on using the loader in two ways for the site:
- For the preloader that I will insert before the entire movie, I plan on loading the tattoos/merchandise/contact/news external SWFs which will makeup the content of the _root movie.
- For the preloader used in the tattoos/gallery I plan on using it to display a loading bar on top of the button thumbnail clicked, then displaying the pop-up enlarged image (which is an external SWF file) of the thumbnail on top of the entire movie once the loading is finished.
I've tried some of the preloader examples given in the tutorial section without much luck.
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Jun 1, 2009
have a preloader with the following code
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It works great with Firefox and Safari on a mac but when viewing in internet explorer on a pc, the loader does not work at all.
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Nov 1, 2009
I experienced the following error when loading xml using AS3. I searched the whole internet for solutions but nothing works! But after trying for hours, i somehow solve it. All I did was to remove "</xml>" from my xml.
TypeError: Error #1088: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.
at toffees_fla::MainTimeline/onLoaded()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
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Nov 4, 2009
I have on my main timeline a movie clip (emptyMC) that I am loading my external SWFs into and I need to be able to access this loader movie clip from my menu, which is it's own movie clip. As it stands, when I have my buttons on the main timeline I have no issue. But once I put these same buttons into the menu MC I am lost as to how to "get back" to the loader on the main timeline to load and unload the external SWFs.Here is my current code that allows for me to load and unload with buttons on the main timeline. Is there away to modify this same code for my purposes?[code]
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Oct 26, 2010
I try to make an intro animation inside a website, and when the animation is done or when you push the Skip button, it navigates to the index.html file from the site root.So I have in my site root the folder Flash, where the intro.swf is, and within the intro.swf I called the navigateToURL(new URLRequest("..index.html"), "_self"); method. Now it's not working.
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Aug 25, 2009
I know that typically, a loader class normally can load in either a swf or an image file (like a jpeg), but there were some swf files that just would not load for some odd reason. So I decided to do some trial and error tests and discovered that the problem was coming from swfs that were compiled from flex.
At this point I decided to try a different approach and compile from flash instead using the .as file as a document class in a blank fla. I received the same effect of it not being loaded. It could not have possibly been a coding problem with the swfs compiled from flex; they were working fine on release-builds.
I've come to the conclusion that the problem is not with flex or flash, but just compiling swf from a document class. I did more research into the problem, and I only found that document class compiled swfs have only 2 frames (first one being the preloader, and the second being everything else). They had some example codes on using the loader class with these swfs, but the code only demonstrates with traces when its loaded; they don't actually explain or show how to make the swf viewable the way it should.
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Aug 19, 2010
I recently added a loader page ("loader.swf") to my flash website. Basically, I created a new file and added a loader which shows the percent loaded, and then it loads in the "index.swf" file. My question is: when I upload my site to the web server, do I use the loader page as the "index" page? My dilemma about that is that I don't want the URL to read "[URL]"...
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Nov 26, 2009
I am just looking for a tutorial for a simple loader bar. My flash site is quite large and as a result, a simple loading screen leads people with slower connections to believe that maybe it has crashed during load and don't wait till it's finished. A load bar would obviously show that the site is still downloading.
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