Flash :: [CS3] Combining 2 .fla's Into 1? (preloader + Site)

Help Combining Site Pages Into One Swf
I really need help. I am working with MX and love it. Ihave a site in developement that has a map-swf that I want to be able to call up area information from a button. That info is currently in other swf's and when I try to access the other swf's movie clips on line it doesn't work well. also, the new swf's loading over the old one is loading the new movie clips on top of the clips in the main movie-I fell this is what is causing the problem. So I want to put the info on the same timeline and call frames to pull up the info--When I ---gotoAndPlay(10);----I want the movie clips to load new information and drop the old. How do I get them to reconise the need to pick up the new info. I tried pasting the clip with the new info on the frame where the old (button) movieClip icon resides but I still can't get it to pick-up when I test movie. All help will be greatly appreciated-THANKS

Tutorial-Preloader, Combining The Bar With The KB?
I would like to display the preload bar and kilobyte cout up for each loading sqeuence. I've set them up individually in the same loading scene, but how do I get both to work? I added the bar script to the bar and the KB script to the "loading mc" but the bar doesn't work.

Each script below:

_________________________________________________________
The Bar script:

onClipEvent (load) {
// get total bytes
// we put this in a load event because we only need to get total bytes once
tkb = _root.getBytesTotal();
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
// calculating bar lenght
scale = ((_root.getBytesLoaded()/tkb)*100);
// setting the progress bar lenght
this._xscale = scale;
// Check if it's loaded and do whatever after
if (scale == 100) {
_root.nextFrame();
}
}
_________________________________________________________
The Kilobyte script:

onClipEvent (load) {
// get total bytes
// we put this in a load event because we only need to get total bytes once
tkb = Math.round(_root.getBytesTotal()/1000);
// then we'll set the text for our viewers
_root.totalkb = ("kb of " add tkb add "kb loaded");
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
// calculate kb loaded
kb = Math.round(_root.getBytesLoaded()/1000);
// set p on main timeline
_root.kbloaded = kb;
// Check if it's loaded and do whatever after
if (kb == tkb) {
_root.nextFrame();
}
}

Also, do I just put these items in their own scene before the movie or does it have to be in the same scene?

Thanks, Rob

Site Preloader
Hey,

I know nothing about flash, so I am a complete newb.

I have my site built entirely out of php and html, but I was wondering if on the splash screen I could have a flash preloader that wouldn't load up my site until "x" number of bytes were loaded.

And if it is possible, how?

btw: I'm have the entire MX package

Preloader, Several For One Site... Help
How do i make a preloader for each part of my site. Like Each sceen is loaded with its own preloader, ya know? And when someone doesnt want to look at lets say the Picture section of my site, the pictures dont load UNTILL they click on the button then a little loader pops up for the individual part? Is this easyer then im thinking or am i biting off more then i can chew?

Aim: Ty26797 would be prefered over a posted responce

Thank you

Site Preloader
I just learned flash 5 and I was wondering if any one knew of a tutorial for a preloader and how to put it on my site using html

Preloader For A Site
I need a preloader for a Flash site because all the other preloaders I make or get don't do the job right.

Preloader For My Site...
Okay my site is made up of three seperate SWFs, so how would I make a preloader for all that? Well I know I could make three seperate preloaders but I want to have one preloader "look" so then it seems like they are all preloading at the same time. So how would I make the fourth SWF know the overall preloading progress of the other three?

Thanks,
Tyouk

Preloader For Site Help
preloader for site help
can someone tell me how to get a preloader to load the site!! in my site the preloader starts after the file itself has been loaded i want the preloader to load the file, site so ppl know its loading

basically when u go on my site u see a white rectangle (my sites size) for awhile (depends on internet connection) after it loaded u see quickly my loading screen and then my site!!

how do i get the preloader to replace the white rectangel in the begining

kind of hard too understand! oh well

thx

Site Preloader
Hi,

I am coming to the end of a project and i need to create a preloader...

my whole site runs within a single swf...

all i seem to find is tutorials on preloaders for movieclips... if sum1 can send me a sample file which is easily edited or a nice simple tutorial that would be great... i am only going to have a simple preloader....

Your help will be much appreciated =D

martin

Preloader For Site
I've been wanting to put a preloader on my site(www.tcdesignz.co.uk) but have failed to get one working
i've made the preloader that i want (here) and i've tried putting it into the main site .swf with all differant types of actionscripting but i'm not having much luck any help would be Appreciated

Preloader Clip Site
I'm looking for a web site which has dowloadable preloader clips I can use. Any suggestions.
Thanks

Preloader/Site Problem
I've made a preloader with the following actions:

totalBytes = this.getBytesTotal();
loadedBytes = this.getBytesLoaded();
remainingBytes = totalBytes-loadedBytes;
percentDone = int((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*100);
bar.gotoAndStop(percentDone);
if (_framesloaded == _totalframes) {
nextScene();
}

The preloader works but when it gets to the next scene it wont get past the first frame. My page is currently at http://www.members.aol.com/jsimon456 so if someone could tke a look and let me know why it keep stopping at that place each time maybe?

Thanks,

Preloader Problems With Site
here is my site. everything else works except the preloader. would someone take a look at this and tell me what i am doing wrong? someone suggested that i put it in a seperate scene and put it at the top of the list in the scenes. please help a lost web designer with this preloader. not to mention i would like to put a better one in its place.

thanks ak_d_zign@sbcglobal.net

My PreLoader Freezes The Web Site.
I built a simple preloader in the first scene of a flash movie and place it on a html page. The rest of the html page has an image header and an image footer. When the page tries to load on the web.....the preloader scene freezes and there is a Flash player error that states the script trying to run is complex and it is slowing the flash player too much.....it asks if I want to end the script. I click yes and it stays froozen until I end the task in the task manager.

Now, when the flash is grabbed by itself on the web, that is when it is not sitting on a html page....the movie works great and the preloader does it's job no porblem.

I am sure it has something to do with it being placed on the html page....not sure how to fix it though.

The script for the first frame of the preloader scene looks like this:

if (_framesloaded>=_totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay("Main", 1);
} else {
gotoAndPlay("Preloader", 1);
}

The script for the last frame of the preloader scene looks like this:

gotoAndPlay(1);

Any suggestions on whats going on would be greatly appreciated.

Tom

Adding My Preloader To My Site?
I got my site designed and up. It goes, splash page, then you click on the icons for either a HTML site or a flash site. How can i add a preloader that I have to the flash site? I'm a total noob. Any tips or links or explainations would be helpful. Thanks!!

How Did This Site Get Such As Smooth Preloader?
http://thevillage.movies.go.com/

Check out the red stripe that they use as a loader. It always animates smoothly. How do they do this? Most percentage style loaders I've worked with jump and animate in a bumpy way, and not smooth like that.

I'm thinking that flash doesn't load things in an even way, hence, the percentage bar tends to jump around. Do you think on this site, the red stripe isn't actually a functional percentage loader? How would that work?

I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.

Thanks,

Entire Site Preloader
well i have a question =)

is there a preloader that can preload all my site before its downloaded the site isnt done entirely in flash theres both the regular html with images and flash and music so is there a way i could get a preloader that would load all that, if ya how would i do it

Problem With Preloader Within Site
I have made a portfolio site in Flash Alex Photo, but I'm having this problem with the Photo-preloaders. I created different MC's for every photo on the site with a preloader, but as you can see these preloaders aren't showed online. I hosted one of the .fla files so you can check the preloader out when you run it offline. It can be downloaded here. Can somebody tell me how I can solve this problem?

Flash Site W/ Preloader.
Hello,

I've been thinking of taking this: http://thekingonline.net/fgsite/ and making a flash website out of it and I'd like to have a preloader incorporated when each page link is clicked...

What tutorials should I use in order to get this to work?..

Thank you,
Justin.

Simple Preloader For My Site
It seems I have failed on the last hurdle of making my site and no matter how many tutorials I try I can not make my preloader work

I have what appears to be a preloader at the beggining of my site, but it is obviously set up wrong as it doesnt work at all and you can go into my site without it loading fully.

This is what it does at the moment..

LoveTheVoid

What I want it to do is wait till the whole movie is loaded before going onto the enter section.

I actually know that the actionscript I have written is wrong, I got it from a website tutorial and I dont know what to put in the gaps it tells me to write stuff... so far this is waht the action script looks like..

Frame 1:

iStatus=0;
setProperty("pBar",_xscale,0);

Frame 2:

//un-comment the lines 3 to 5 below, to calculate the actual file size
//remember to COMMENT frame 3 line 3 if your going to use below
//iBytesTotal = _root.getBytesTotal();
//iBytesLoaded = _root.getBytesLoaded();
//iBytes = (iBytesLoaded/iBytesTotal)*100;

setProperty("pBar", _xscale, iBytes);
sStatus=iBytes add "%";

Frame 3:

if (iBytes<100) {
//Comment line 3 below if your using the iBytesTotal and iBytesLoaded in frame 2 line 3 to 5
iBytes=iBytes+2;
gotoAndPlay(2);
} else {
sStatus='100%'
gotoAndPlay(4);
}

Frame 4:

//Load your next action below

sStatus='100%'
gotoAndPlay(nextScene);

I am using Flash MX and have no idea what I actually have to write in these sections.

I'd be very greatful for anyone that can help as I need to have this site up and running asap

Preloader And Site With Many Swfs
hi all,
ive searched the forum but i didnt find any interesting answer to my question. sorry if this issue is somewhere in the forum.

so my question is - can i have external (or even internal) preloader that loads whole site. ive got a site that is main.swf which loades into scrollpane following swfs: news.swf, lessons.swf, contact.swf and info.swf.
now my deal is to make a preloader that exists before main.swf and loads all of the stuff (main,news,lessons,contact,info) to prevent visitors from noticin a choppy loading/animation in both of those swfs.

the loader would be external swf - loader.swf, that i will place on the html site, and it would load main.swf after finishin loadin all the swfs,
or the loader would be included to main.swf.

so - how to do it?

please help me ^^

Where To Put A Preloader In A Flash Site
I've went thru a bunch of preloader tuturals and the one question that never gets answered is where do you put the preloader. Do you add it to your flash movie on the first cuple frames, or is it stand alone movie (fla), do you call for a html page, or a swf file. I can make it work with adding an image as all the tuturals do but I want it to load the first page in my flash web?
Flash 8

Flash .flv Preloader For Site
Hi all,

I'm getting really crazy while I can't find any good info for my situation.
So, I have a flv video file arround 600 kb of size. I have Flash CS3.

This video file I need to have for the first play when come on site like other preloaders.
And after if plays I need that get in first page of site.

So. If there is anyone who can provide me some sample fla file where I can see what to do I will be very helpfull.
In this I'm looking to get a flv video to get played when visitor comes to site and after video has played site will automaticly get opened. I'm thinking to to put there two links like 'Step over' and 'Enter' wich will be link to get in site.

Thanks a lot for any help, advice...

BR
Lali

Preloader (on An Un-embedded Site)
My flash site is not embedded on an html, which make it easier for the site to resize to everyone's resolution. I'm running into problems with the browsers though. Firefox will display the preloader while IE just shows a blank screen. Safari on the Mac will even show it correctly. Is there a reason why IE does this? Is there some kind of work around? I really don't want to put the flash site on an HTML page, I had a previous layout like that and making different site size versions was very tedious.

link here

thanks for reading!

My Site Gets Stuck At Preloader
hey guys i just finished redoing my site and 56k users tells me that it gets stuck at the preloader...anyone know why this would be?

my site

please help!

Preloader For An Entire Site?
I'm trying to find a way where I can do a preloader for my whole site... but what keeps happening is that it doesn't show up until I'm my site is 75% or so downloaded. What's going on?!?!?! Can someone please help me with this. I'm sure it's a simple fix, but it's VERY VERY ANNOYING!!!!

I just want a preloader that shows the entire downloading process, not just the last 25% of it....someone help...PLEASE!!!!

~Troy~

Preloader For External Site.
G'day.

I read around in the tutorials department and found the preloader for an external site, but I don't think it will do what I want it to do. It probably will, but I'm not good enough to know which bits of code to chop out and stuff. All I want to do is have a percentage preloader for an external site uploaded to a site, and when loaded, go to the site. Is this possible?

From Preloader To Actual Site
I completed the basic layout of the site, and added a preloader at the beginning. However, the "movement" from the preloader to the actual site isn't all that smooth. After the preloader finishes, the site just suddenly appears, and it just doesn't look right.

Does anyone know what I could do to solve this problem?

Example: http://www.2advanced.com/portfolio/p...lash-index.htm

Thanks a lot.

Using A Preloader In A Dynamic Site?
How do you use a preloader when you are dynamically loading swf's?? Could someone please explain how you do this...PLEASE...

For example I have the script in the main movie loading all the other swf's dynamically, but the actual swf's that are being loaded have the preloader script on the 1st frame of each movie...and this seems to be causing the problem...

This is the code in the main movie 1st frame...

Code:
stop();
//
//
// Set up the MovieClipLoader object and its listener
my_mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
my_listener = new Object();
my_listener.onLoadComplete = function(movieClip) {
trace("Loading is done for "+movieClip);
};
my_listener.onLoadError = function(movieClip) {
trace("Error: "+movieClip+" did not load anything.");
trace("Your load failed for "+movieClip);
};
my_mcl.addListener(my_listener);
//
//
// Setup the TextField.StyleSheet object
my_ss = new TextField.StyleSheet();
// Tell the CSS what to do when loaded
my_ss.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("myStyle.css loaded");
} else {
trace("myStyle.css did not load");
}
};
my_ss.load("styles/myStyle.css");
//
//
// Setup the LoadVars object
my_lv = new LoadVars();
my_lv.load("text/my_vars.txt");
my_lv.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
gotoAndStop("Animation");
} else {
trace("Load Failed");
}
};
my_lv.getHome = function() {
return this.homeVar;
};
my_lv.getAbout = function() {
return this.stuffVar;
};
Then this is the code in the "Animation" frame of the main movie that loads the external swf dynamically...

Code:
// Use the MovieClipLoader from frame 1 to load some movieclips.
my_mcl.loadClip("animation.swf", "main_mc_container");
my_mcl.loadClip("navigation.swf", "navigation_mc_container");
Then for example this is the script that runs the preloader script in the movie that is being loaded dynamically into the main movie

Code:
bytes_loaded = Math.round(_root.getBytesLoaded());
bytes_total = Math.round(_root.getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total;
_root.loadBar._width = getPercent*100;
_root.loadText = Math.round(getPercent*100)+"%";
if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(5);
}

Replace Site Preloader With New?
Hi folks...

Ohh man i need help.. Im a newbi, but still i have spend the last 6 hours to make a new preloader work in a flash template which has it own preloader.

Im not talking about the preloader for the site, but for loading the external swf in between. The buttons/menu are loaded via xml. And when you click on a button, it loads a external swf and this is where the preloader works.

Here is the preloader for the site:

Code:

onEnterFrame=function(){
top=_root.yukle.getBytesTotal();
yukle=_root.yukle.getBytesLoaded();
yuzde=Math.round(yukle/top*100);
bar._xscale=yuzde;
kutu=""+yuzde;
if(yuzde==100){
_visible=false;
}else{
_visible=true;
}
}
So it seems simpel, it just loads and after load it clear it self.

The next code here is for a cool preloader i got from flashden. But it is made so that, after the preloader has loaded, it will play the frames afterwards. I just want it as the above preloader, so it just loads the external swf.

Here is the code for the new preloader:

Code:

stop();
// Function for fading out objects
function fadeOut(){
// Reduce opacity
this._alpha-=5;
// Check to see if the clip has been faded out all the way, if so remove the script
if(this._alpha<=0){
// Set opacity all the way down
this._alpha=0;
// Set the visible to false
this._visible=false;
// Play next frame
play();
// Kill the enterframe script
this.onEnterFrame=null;
}
}

// Start the preloading
this.onEnterFrame=function(){
// Variable for how much is downloaded
dataLoaded=this.getBytesLoaded();
// Variable for the total file size
totalData=this.getBytesTotal();
// Variable that calculates the percentage downloaded
percentData=Math.round(100/totalData*dataLoaded);
// Animate the preloader. The preloader clip itself it 100px wide
preloader_mc.gotoAndPlay(percentData);
// Update the text field with the percentage downloaded
preloader_mc.percent1_mc.percent_txt.text=percentData+"%";
preloader_mc.percent2_mc.percent_txt.text=percentData+"%";
// Check to see if the movie is downloaded
if(percentData>=100){
// Play to the next frame
preloader_mc.gotoAndStop(100);
// Fade out the preloader and the text field
preloader_mc.onEnterFrame=fadeOut;
// Get rid of this enterframe script
this.onEnterFrame=null;
}
}
I really hope someone can help me with this. Im going crazy

Regards Hrbi

Typical Site Preloader
NOTE: This was posted in the CS3 area, but I felt maybe it was more related to AS 3.0 than CS3. Sorry for the double post.
-----------------

For a while now I have been creating preloaders by setting up one SWF to load in another SWF. The first SWF is just a container basically, and it displays a preloader based on the PROGRESS event of loading in this other SWF. The 2nd SWF is actually the website.

I was wondering, is this the most common way to create preloaders, or do most people load MC's from the library and show that progress? Or something else?

I'm just curious how the typical developer handles this operation - I know its common but I don't really like the way I've been doing it and I don't know any other developers to compare with.

Thanks.

Where's The Flash Preloader In This Site?
Hi -

I'm curious about how a particular Flash site was built.

http://www.cultivatorads.com/

There don't seem to be any preloaders, unless the movement of the navigation is the preloader. Any thoughts on how the speed would be so fast or how it's constructed?

Thanks.

Flash Site With Preloader...
Hello all,
I just got Flash CS4 and am having problems. I wanted to know if any one knows where I can download a simple CS4/AS3 .fla files. I am making a site that loads external swf files for each page of the site. Thanks in advanced.

New flasher

Matt

Flash Site Preloader Help
OK, I am new to flash, I have used it for about a day now.

I have created a flash site and posted on my web site and it works but I can not get the loaders to work. I have created multiple preloaders using tutorials, but I have no clue how to implement them into the site or the flash or whatever. I do not know what to do with the preloader or how to get it into the site to load my page.

If anyone can point me in th right direction I would appreciate it.

Preloader Destroy My Site....
i load a file to a movieclip and everything seems to look good..but after i put a preloader to the file that i load to the movieclip,every tthing went wrong.the stop(); dosent work ,and a lots more.......
where should i put the preloader?

My Site Is 291k, Do I Need A Preloader? Help.
Okay, I have a site that is about three frames long. There is a stop action, and a bunch of movie clips. The buttons tell the movie clips to play.

Now, the whole thing is 291k, but when I check it out on the bandwidth profiler, it tells me that there is a 69 second preload for a 56k modem.

Here is a stupid thought. If it is 291k, and the user is on a 56k. Doesn't that mean that the site should load in less than 6 seconds? I guess not. Why is is called 56k when it is actually downloading at 4.7k per second.

So....when you go to a site, does it download the whole file before it starts? Or will it play the frames that it has downloaded as it goes?

Like, I don't need them to download all 291 at once. As they click the buttons, it can download then.

The first frame is 90k though. So does this mean that it will still take 20 seconds for a 56k user to see the site?

Is 90k that big? What is typical? What are the solutions to this dilemma?

Thanks.

Also, what is high speed access. If 4.7 is a 56k, then what is cable, dsl, and t=one.

Thanks.

Problem With Preloader On My Site.
Problem with Preloader on my site www.tepart.com .
Made on FLASH MX 2004, ActionScript 1.0 for Flash player 6.0
I do not understand, it is an elementary script. But it refuses to work 50-60 % will not be loaded yet. Only after that it appears on the screen.
To me have told it probably from for the introduced fonts, but it has not helped (a site began now with awful fonts).
If you faced this problem, help me please...

Flash Preloader For Html Site...how?
I am wanting to have a Flash preloader for a HTML site. How do I do this? Thanks for taking the time to respond.

jhb

Creating A Preloader For A Large Site
I have a problem with preloaders. I cant figure out how to get my preloader to show starting at 0%. I have a fairly large file at 467Kb and the download time is lagging. I created a preloader and have it at the first frame. It works great but it doesnt show until in around 95%. Any indepth help?

My Site's Preloader Takes Me In Too Early
This one's bugging me because I'm sure the answer is sitting right here in front of my face. The site I've created is quite big: the flash portion comes out to 1.3 megabytes, so a preloader is a necessity.

The preloader sits on the first frame and is set to take the viewer in when the last frame (frame 39) is downloaded. The problem is that it works for only a few frames and then takes the viewer in. Navigation is unpredictable until the whole site downloads.

Here is the code I have as a frame action:

if(_framesloaded==39) {
gotoAndPlay (2);
} else {
gotoAndPlay (1);
}

Anyone have any ideas? I appreciate any help.
Willi Waizenegger