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Flashkit Veteran
preloader help
hey i am making this simple music player and i was wondering if there was a way to make a load bar that works for all of the songs. the songs are all linked in external swf's so they load one at a time depending on which one oyu click and i was wondering if there was a way to get them all to use the same prelaoder to show progress, and if there is please show me to a tutorial that doewsn't have too much action scripting because i am a noob at flash and if there are cool premade ones any where that would be great as well, help is appreciated.
JE
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Senior Member
I am a noob too, but it seems to me like you could put the Load movie command for each of your swf's before the last frame that is preloaded in your preloader.
Roxanne
King's Court Productions
Swish2 2003.05.20
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Flashkit Veteran
yes i was planning on doing that but the problem is that i DON'T have a preloader to do that with so willl somone that has a cool preloader or know how to make one direct me with action scripting and/or tutorial for this that is simple that i can use the same preloader for multiple movies
thanx for the try roxy
Thankx to the new people who help
Joe
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Flashkit Veteran
anyone else want to take a stab at it?????????????????????????
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the friendly canadian
You know, flashkit isn't only a pretty face.
There is also a pretty comprehensive tutorial base. Give it a look for those types of things. If you can't type 'preloader' in the search box yourself.. Why should we be even offering you help? You gotta make an effort on your own, and we'll help you the rest of the way.
Thanks,
DavuLf
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Flashkit Veteran
i did search in the tutorials and i did search for preloader in teh forum search, but the search wasn't workin and the tutorials wasn't what i was lookin for so instead of spoamming me with useless ridicules could you please help me?
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Senior Member
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Flashkit Veteran
ya that might work tahnx fopr the tip but it might not, will it work wiht multiple external swf music files, and will the same preloader work for all them? Please answer your help is greatly appreciated
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Senior Member
It will certainly work for several swfs, you just need to change the script on each button tahtis used to load the swfs, for example, on your "about" button you'd have this:
code:
on (release) {
if (_level0.current_selection == "about") {
stop();
} else {
_level0.containerMC.loadMovie("about.swf");
_level0.preloader.gotoAndStop(2);
_level0.current_selection = "about";
}
}
and on your home button you'd have this:
code:
on (release) {
if (_level0.current_selection == "home") {
stop();
} else {
_level0.containerMC.loadMovie("home.swf");
_level0.preloader.gotoAndStop(2);
_level0.current_selection = "home";
}
}
you see it's quite simple, but don't thank me for the tip, it was oldnewbie that came up with this preloader, I just pasted his code here
Adam
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Flashkit Veteran
well thanks for patching the code man but it still won't work for me i changed everything, i think it might have to do with all the levels in my movie i am going to attach it and let you look at it to see if you can figure out the problem, also i wanted to change the line
_level0.containerMC.loadMovie("whatever.swf");
to
_level0.containerMC.loader.loadMovie("whatever.swf ");
so that i could get an equalizer to work that i have, just to let you know the name of my song is 01 Dumpweed as you will probably notice, i really can't figure out whats going wrong, if you could help that would be so awesome, if you want to contact me on AIM it is joejoe2288med, please take a peek at tell me whats going wrong and how i can fix it. BTW i made some changes to the original post because i am making this a slider as well as all this other stuff so if that effects it please tell me, Adam14 if you could please help some more that would be awesome, and if anyone else dl's my file and can tell me what is wrong please do.
****, i can't attach the file cuz it is too big, omg this is annoying, Adam14 do you have AIM or something i will try it cuz the FTP for my site aint working, i will post if i get it up, thanks i will try you in a bit
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Senior Member
Probably a stupid question, but you did change "whatever.swf" to the swf file name you were trying to open?
Adam
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Flashkit Veteran
yea, so can you get on AIM or something or give me your email through a PM so i can Mail you the file so you can take a look at my stupidity?
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Flashkit Veteran
duh, i am such a dumb ass, i didn't zip the .fla so i will attach it now.
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Senior Member
Ok, the leafs are on in 10 minutes and it's PLAYOFFS!!!!! so i had a quick look, you don't have a movie clip on your stage called containerMC, or another movie clip in that one named loader? Or did I just not see them?
you're trying to load into a clip named loader that is within a clip named containerMC, yet they aren't there?
Adam
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Flashkit Veteran
doh, i have a "loadbar" but it is only one pixel wide, what part of my movie am i supposed to make have the name "containerMC" tell me the layer or object i beg of you,
BTW when i rename the whole loadbar clip to "containerMC" the slider stops working, damn please don't go watch the gaem yet
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Senior Member
lol...apparently you don't know many Canadians...miss a hockey playoff game...lol..not gonna happen...it's intermission...what you need to do is make a new movie clip, leave the frames empty..and then drag it from your library onto the stage and give it the instance name containerMC, change your code to, for instance on your dumpweed button:
code:
on (release) {
if (_root.current_selection == "01 Dumpweed") {
stop();
} else {
_root.containerMC.loadMovie("01 Dumpweed.swf");
_level0.preloader.gotoAndStop(15);
_level0.current_selection = "01 Dumpweed";
}
}
that loads the swf into containerMC. The preloader, only checks - as it's setup now - to make sure that containerMC has its content loaded fully....I will be back on after the game...the Leafs are up 2-0, in case you care
Adam
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Flashkit Veteran
i dont' know why the hell it is doing this but whenever i name a movie clip "containerMC" in ****s up the slider and it goes up right after it comes down. could you please tell me how to fix that and you said you can't see the loading bar? how do i make it so that you can see the loading progress?
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Senior Member
ok, JoeJoe...I'm back and my team won!!!...let's get this working for ya!!!
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Senior Member
Ok, having checked more..now that I'm back...you have a couple different preloaders goin'.....so, let's get this straightened out....you have how many files loaded in?...and waht are their names?...I'll see if I can just fix it up for you and send it back...but I need to know the name of your swfs that are loaded in.
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