Help with loader ...

Hi,

I am almost finished with a basic flash site. I created 1 FLA file with each 'page' being it's own movie. For each page I am calling the swf file that was created, what I want to do is put separate loaders in for those but I cannot figure out how to do it? Most are small but a few are larger ... I did the loader for the main moview but cannot figure out how to do it for the individual movies (swfs) that are loaded when user clicks a button.

Pardon my inexperience - any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Jen

are you loading your swfs into mc's or levels? preloading isn't really any different when loading swfs. Here's an example, i've included some comments to help you understand it:

PHP Code:

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//create an mc to load your swf in to
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container", this.getNextHighestDepth());
//load the swf
container.loadMovie("somefile.swf");
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
    //some variables to display/utilize the preloader
    loaded = container.getBytesLoaded();
    total = container.getBytesTotal();
    percent = Math.floor(loaded/total *100);
    //display the percent loaded so you know it's working
    trace(percent);
    //if the file it loaded removie the onEnterFrame to free up resource
    if(percent >= 100){
        delete onEnterFrame;
        //do anything you want now that hte swf is loaded
    }
} 


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Thank you! I was just working on it and realized, some of the original code for the main movie had _root so once I removed, it worked fine ... ugh, I figured it would be something small.

Thanks for your code, I will look at that too ...