[CS3] preloader and scenes

[barrjohnm]

Hi,
I have a turtle movie that i am working on for a class project. It will be a turtle animation, and I thought that I would put a preloader in it, not required, but I thought that it would be cool. I does not seem to work as both the scenes load at once. There are two scenes "preloader" and scene 1. I want to preloader scene to load and then go to scene 1(there will be more scenes later). Is this possible or do you have to load the swf externally?

you can see the weirdness at:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~johnbarr/tur...rtle_boy2.html

Attached is the fla, can somebody please help me save my class project

thanks so much,
Johnny

Here is the actionscript I am using in the movie:

stop();

var loaded:Number;
var percent:Number;
bar.addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, load_progress );

function load_progress(e:Event):void{
    loaded = stage.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded / stage.loaderInfo.bytesTotal;
    percent = Math.round(loaded * 100);
    
    bar.scaleX = loaded;
    loader_info.text = "Loading... " + percent + "%";
    
    if( percent == 100 ){
        bar.removeEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, load_progress );
        play();
    }
} 

[earthwyrm]

In the second frame of the timeline insert new keyframes with the movieclips you want to be in there ... and instead of play() use gotoAndStop(2);

What this will do is advance the playhead to the second frame.

stop();

var loaded:Number;
var percent:Number;
bar.addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, load_progress );


function load_progress(e:Event):void
{
	loaded = stage.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded / stage.loaderInfo.bytesTotal;
	percent = Math.round(loaded * 100);
	
	bar.scaleX = loaded;
	loader_info.text = "Loading... " + percent + "%";
	
	if( percent == 100 )
	{
		bar.removeEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, load_progress );
		
		gotoAndStop(2);
	}
}

Hope this helps.

[barrjohnm]

Hi earthwyrm,
Thanks so much, that worked perfect, you saved my turtle`-`

All I had to do was to replace the line of code instead of play(); I used gotoAndStop(2); I guess it is going to the frame "2" and does not care that the two scenes are called pre loader and beach.

Thanks so much,
Johnny