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Thread: a preloader for a scrollpane?!?

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    What I have is a bunch of thumbnails of pictures in a scrollpane. It takes forever to load so I threw a preloader in before it, but it doesn't work!! Flash loads whatever is in the scrollpane right off the bat and doesn't give the preloader a chance to appear and show the progress. I have absolutely no idea how force Flash to load the scrollpane movie after it has loaded the preloader stuff!! PLEASE HELP!!!

    David

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    What you have to do is create a new preloader movie, which sole purpose in life, is to load your present movie (without it's own preloader!), in an empty holder movie clip or on another level. It will then work!

    Maybe post my example .fla of such a preloader, later tonight, if I get time to clean it up a little!

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    thx

    thx oldnewbie.

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    Actually I already tried that. I used:

    this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder", 1);
    holder.loadMovie("scrollpane.swf");

    scrollpane.swf being what needs to be preloaded, and it still doesn't work.

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    If that's your only code, then sure that won't work!

    What would you like displayed? Only a loading bar, a percentage message, bytes loaded of total bytes?

    http://odin.prohosting.com/~oldnew/preload5.htm

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    All three if at all possible.

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