preloader taking too long.... why? OH WHY? ... anyone..? please... ;)

[eyedea]

Hi there... desperately looking for some help on this one.....

I'm working on this site for a band - it's been giving me major headaches.... now after about the 5th time of setting it up from scratch - it does take ages for the pop up window that displays the page to show the preloader.... it kicks in about 20-25%...

Does anyone know what I can do about this....?

Tried to set up 2 frames, bringing in the screen and background before the preloader - tried starting the preloader in the very first frame as normal - tried to set up a preloader for the preloader and failed miserably... :'(

If anyone could take a look and help me out here... that would be GREAT!!!

http://www.graphiceyedea.co.uk/redhed/update4
(the site is still work in progress, some preloaders still missing for the sections and sound to be added, apart from most of the content)

Thanks for listening....
Prisca

[scudsucker]

with a 56K modem, it started at about 15 to 20% but I couldnt tell, it loaded fast, so it jumped up quickly. It loaded in about 10 seconds, so i dont think you have any problem.

But, if you really really want the preloader to start from 0, then instead of using the traditional percentLoaded calculation:

percentLoaded=(_root.getBytesLoaded()/_root.getBytesTotal())*100;

try this..on a small, preferably emply clip, that is in frame 1 in the top layer.

onClipEvent(load) {
_root.alreadyLoaded=_root.getBytesLoaded;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
gBL=_root.getBytesLoaded-_root.alreadyLoaded;
gBT=_root.getBytesTotal-_root.alreadyLoaded;
//
percentLoaded=(gBL/gBT)*100;
}

so you try to calculate the percentage of what is still left to load...

[eyedea]

scudsucker,
thanks for taking the time to check

I'm so glad you don't think there is a problem - I'd send the link around to a few friends and some of them said that they were about to close the page as they didn't think it was working - that's why I started to worry!

Thanks for the script though - I'll try it out!!

Thanks again
Prisca