MX 2004 Pro Slides and Preloader

[milx]

Hi,

I'm a vetern of Flash 3 and 4 attempting to get up to speed on the new version... I know how to build a prelaoder but am a bit perplexed as to how to do so with a slideshow created with the new screen based format.

Access to the main timeine is limited, my understanding is that it can be targeted, but not modified directly, so I can't put it there. I tried embedding the .SWF of the slideshow in a parent movie and installing the loader in frame 1 but the .SWF showed up as a single frame only. I also tried to load the SWF into a container clip in frame 2 with the loader being in frame 1, but of course it only read the size of the container clip, not the SWF being loaded.

I must be missing something horribly obvious, any help is appreciated. Here's the code from the preloader..

myInterval =setInterval(preloader, 10);
function preloader() {
if (getBytesLoaded() >= getBytesTotal()) {
play();
clearInterval(myInterval)
}
bar._xscale = (getBytesLoaded()/getBytesTotal())*100;
myTextField.text = Math.round(getBytesLoaded()/getBytesTotal()*100)+ "%"
}

Here is that code in action before a non slide-based clip

www.liveeyetv.org

[EBPP]

Hy!

Is there any solution for this problem? I also have a Flash MX Slide Presentation where I want to put a preloader before - and found no clue how to do this.

Please help if anyone knows a solution.

Yours,
Andreas

[mgason]

Hi,
I am not sure exactly what your problem is, still using flash mx, but sounds like this might help, go to
http://www.moock.org/asdg/codedepot/
take a look at the "onClipEvent(Data) preloader". under "chapter10"