Actionscript 3 - Creating A Custom Progress Bar In Flash?
Oct 25, 2010
I need a progress bar that's kind of in an odd shape, I've attached an image. It's not a preloader; it's for periodic progress while the user is performing other action on the website. I've played and played with tweens from a symbol of a fill of the bar to no avail. I'm not great at flash, so apparently even this simple thing is a stumbling block for me. Since it's an odd shape,I was hoping I could somehow use a paint bucket fill of the symbol or something like that to create "progress", and simply send a "stop" command when it's at the appropriate level, but I've tried several different ways and just don't have the ability to do it. I can't seem to find anything online that's even close either.
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I have created a custom skin for a Flash video that I wish to use. I currently have a shape tween within an MC that acts as the progress bar for the Flash video. Is there code that will allow me to click and drag that shape tween and control the movie? My movie is embedded within my flash not streamed.
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Jan 8, 2010
the image I load using the tutorial loads really fast (it's only 240kb) which basically means that the progress bar just blinks and completes so fast that people who don't know what's going on won't know what just blinked.
My question therefore is this:Is it possible to tell the preloader, that even if the image is already loaded, the progress bar will take for example 2 seconds to complete?
That way people with fast connections will see the preloader for 2 seconds and people with slower connections will see the preloader for whatever time it takes to load the image.
Here's the code from the tutorial:
Code:
var imageLoader:Loader;
function loadImage(url:String):void {
// Show Preloader
preloader_projekt1.visible = true;
[code]....
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Jun 26, 2011
I studied the above mentioned tutorial. I used this code.
function SetProgress(value:Number)
{
progress.width = value*base.width;
}
preloader.SetProgress(.5);
When I experimented it, got an error like this.
Access of undefined property base.
I gave all the movieclip names correctly.
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Dec 29, 2007
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Apr 5, 2010
I am writing a small app, and the very first thing I do is to create a sprite called "mainSprite" on Stage. This way, whatever I need to lood, I load it into the "mainSprite" NOT directory on to the stage. Now I would like to connect a progress bar to this "mainSprite" so whenever an asset is loaded, progress bar would pop in and show the progress. I would like to know if I am on right track with what I am trying to achieve, and if I am right, then how can I employ a progress component to just listen to "mainSprite".
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Jun 14, 2010
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Code:
var imageLoader:Loader;
function loadImage(url:String):void {
// Show Preloader[code]....
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