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Ok, I have a site that I need to put a load bar w/ percentage in for.
However, everytime I try something, it'll load the entire swf, then go to the loading screen (which is thoroughly useless at that point)
So how do I make a loading screen that comes up immediatly and then shows the swf loading?
the site (WARNING: it's like 12 meg or something)
http://ian.janasnyder.com
Do you have a lot of things happening in your preloader, try to keep the graphics for that as simple as possible. I've had that problem where 75% of the loading is a blank screen, and the the loader shows up for the last 25% which looks like crap. so I keep the preloader as simple as possible, and that usuallly helps
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Also, try cutting down your file size. I don't think I know anyone who is going to wait for a website to load 12 mb! That's HUGEEEE! :)
If you have lots of large jpegs or something, load them into your movie when required. By that i mean, if a user clicks a little thumbnail or something, then it triggers a loadMovie() function which brings in your jpeg. On top of that, you could have your jpeg in a seperate swf already and whack a preloader on the jpeg movieclip so the user is always informed of what's going on.
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