Flash :: Adding An Existing Preloader To A New Movie

Help With Adding Preloader To Existing Art?
Hi guys...

I'm a newbie to Flash, but not to graphic apps....
Anyway, my first attempt at Flash is a movie that
has 80 something layers in Scene 1....

Now , after gaining more knowledge I realise i need a preloader........I've been reading the various posts here to find out how to do a preloader, but what is the simplest way to now add one to this existing .fla file...
(I can't add 2 frames to this large .fla file.....can I ?)

I can't work it out and realise I'm a lamer.....lol
So any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.......tia
(btw......I'm using Flash MX)

Adding Flash 5 Preloader To Existing .swf File
I'm using Flash 5 and have created a menu to which I would like to add a preloader.

Not to sound stupid, but what are the step by step instructions to add a "Loading..." preloader movie to my existing menu?

The web site with the menu is located at http://www.davedicenso.com

P.s. I have searched the help areas at Flashkit.com and have not had much luck.

Thank you!
Jim
jim@davedicenso.com
http://www.davedicenso.com

P.P.S. If you have any comments or suggestions on kaing the site more professional, please let me know!

Adding A .fla To Existing Movie
Hello all:
I have this intro and when it gets to the end I would like to add another movie called header.fla but I do not know how to do this. Originally what I did was added another scene and made a actionscript say goto next scene but in the NEW scene I cannot import the flash movie.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks,

PM

Help On Adding A Preload To An Existing Movie.
I made a Flash movie, but I didn't put a preload at the beginning. At that time I didn't know what a preload was. Is it possible for me to add a preload to an existing movie? How can I push the entire movie 2 frames forward so I can make room for a preload at the beginning? I'd appreciated any help anyone can give, thanks.

Adding Images To Existing Flash Movie
I have downloaded a flash template, which has no images. I was wondering whether there was any way of adding images to the existing flash movie.

Uble Adding Additional Animation To An Existing Rollover Movie Clip.
Hey all,

I'm using Flash 8. I have a picture of a building which is segmented into floors. Upon rolling over a grouping of floors the user sees either a blue overlay, indicating they can click, or a gray overlay simply describing what the floor is. I already have some actionscript in place and I don't need to alter it, I just added more animation to an existing movieclip rollover, but it's not quite working. On one of the floors that rolls-over gray, I want an additional rollover with some text. So I made a movie clip of the rollover animating out and the type coming in and I just added it to the gray fade in movie clip since there was already onRollover actionscript in place there. However, the rollover kept playing over and over again. So, of course I added a Stop action. Then, the animation didn't work anymore, it just rolled over to the final state of that animation. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do, or what I can do as an alternative? I'll post the actionscript in case that helps. Like I said, the rollover "rolls-over" but either loops (without a Stop action), or rolls over to the final frame in the animation (with a Stop action).

Thanks!
Mc

Preloader To Existing Movie?
Hi, is it possible, or how do I use/link a preloader to a completly seperate .fla or .swf ?? You see I made a preloader ( Just learning ) and want to use it for a movie I already made. Possible?

Oh ya, it's a "get bytes total" type preloader

Thx Ezekiel

[CS3] Preloader To An Existing Movie
I have a finished movie which is about 20 frames and 150k
I add this script to a movie clip on frame one at the bottom layer:

PHP Code:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) { loading = _parent.getBytesLoaded(); total = _parent.getBytesTotal(); if (percent == undefined) percent = 0; percent -= (percent-((loading/total)*100))*.25; per = int(percent); percentage = per+"%"; loadBar._width = per; if (percent>99) { _parent.gotoAndPlay(2); }}

The movie plays fine [and starts on frame2], but when I hit control-enter again to simulate download conditions, the preloader only loads right before the movie which leads me to believe the preloader isn't actually working.

Is there something wrong with my logic or the way I am using preloaders?

Existing Movie Preloader
To have a preloader on a movie that you already have made, do you HAVE to make it into an swf b4 putting it into a movieclip, or is there someway of making a preloader load another scene or something?

Preloader On Existing Movie?
According to Lost's preloader tutorial (the load bar one), you have to make 3 frames before any of your movie starts!

What if I've already made the movie and I want to put a preloader on it?

Do I actually have to move all the frames of the existing movie over 3 to make space for the preloader on the timeline?

That would be... wierd...

Attaching Preloader To Existing Movie
how do ig et my preloader to load a movie i made before i made the preloader?

Adding A Existing .fla?
I have a movie already made and ready to go but I need to know if I can add a another movie into the file I already have. What I want to do is add a form I got from here. I dont want to do a link to it I want to put it in the movie I have. Can this be done? everytime I try to import to stage or import to library it gives me a error. thanks for any info you may have.

Adding To Existing Actionscript?
I am trying to create a movieClip that moves in a zig-zag motion and fades in and out. I have figured out the zig and fade in part, but I don't know how to add the second part of code. I know what needs to be added, but i can't figure out the proper way to add it. The code that I have so far, moves the movieClip up and to the right, and fades in from 0 to 100%. Now I want the the movieClip to move up and to the left and fade from 100 to 0%. This is what I have so far...

onClipEvent (load) {
startx = _x;
starty = _y;
_alpha = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_x<=startx+50 || _y>=starty-100) {
_x += 5;
_y -= 10;
_alpha += 10;
} else if (_x == startx+50 || _y == starty-100) {
_x = startx+50;
_y = starty-100;
}
}

[CS3] Adding Images Into Existing Fla
Hello all.

This is my first time here, and practically my first experience with Flash.

I have purchased a web template, and I have managed to change certain parts of the fla, but I am really lost when I comes to adding another 7 images into it.

When all the animation stops etc, i would like to have the 8 images continually appear then fade automatically into the next image in a loop.

I have attached my fla file and images.

fla.rar

images.rar

Thanks heaps.

DazR

Adding Images To An Existing Mc
Hi to all,

I have a mc within a Flash template. I know how to swap out images, but do not know how to add to the existing mc.

I already imported images to Library, and played with importing to stage (close but no cigars).

I am including a zip file of the mc plus 2 samples to be added.

PM me for file.

Can someone please explain (step-by-step) how to insert more images with the same timeline as the existing images?

Any helps would be highly appreciated.

Thank you,
HiTekMom
(a.k.a. Mocha Martha Stewart)

Adding Hyperlinks To An Existing Page
New to Dreamweaver 8, Fireworks and Flash: I've created the first of my pages in my navigation bar which are a series of articles that lead to the next article. But throughout the time I've spent creating the pages, including using Flash to create media for the titles' ("links") movement onto certain homepages, I did not enter the links/URL to the successive pages, not within the nav bar or within any of the articles to lead to the next page, or the next article. I cannot figure out how to go into a page in either Dreamweaver, Fireworks, or Flash (if possible) to add the links to that specific page.
Could some help be lended to me, please?

Adding Actionscript To Existing Component
Is it possible to add actionscript to a component. For example, can you add AS to the play/pause button on the FLV playback component? thanks!

Adding Files To An Existing Stream
Can you add files to a stream on the server so that a client of the stream just sees a continuos stream fo data?

Adding Swish File To Existing Web Page
Swish v2
I have just started using with Swish files. As I've already created a web site with a number of pages, successfully. I now want to add Swish files to the existing pages BUT.

My web site was created with AOL Easy Design and I have no problems with basic pages, the trouble starts when I place a Swish File on the page it displaces, what is already a well set up page, the rest of the page.
As I am new to this, is there a simple solution to this problem

Adding CDATA To An Existing Xml And Flash Asset
Hi, I am a front end web designer/developer and analyst...struggling with putting an accordian flash xml menu together. I have it done except I need to add a simple trademark symbol circle with r. I am struggling with how to do this since I am not savvy in actioncript. I assume the best way is to add it is with a CDATA child node, but do not know how or whatever is the best way to get this done since am on a tight deadline. I need someone to explain step by step what I have to do to get this simple addition resolved. Attached are the links to home page and code for the xml file. The left navigation is the asset that I need to add the trademark symbol under about, about ADHERE. Thanks so much in advance!!!!!!
[URL=http://www.nodcreative.com/natrecor_sliced/natrecor_index.html]index page with flash xml menu asset[/URL]

xml code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<accodion>

<item name="HOME">

</item>

<item name="ABOUT">

<item name= "ABOUT ADHERE<![CDATA[write]]>"></item>

<item name="Medical Information" url="

Adding Lines To Existing Variable Or TextArea
Hey there...

I have a loop running on a buttons submit which returns several results in the form of...

Product ID - Product Name

Basically, I want to have a textArea, or a variable textfield and have it update it for each of the products the loop returns...

For instance... the loop runs, and returnes 3 products.... I want the final display in the text area to be

Product ID1 - Product Name1
Product ID2 - Product Name2
Product ID3 - Product Name3

Can someone explain to me how I might achieve this?
Thank you.

Adding Frames To Existing Flash Intro
I am just learning flash 8. Any help on this will be most appreciated! I've labored with it for weeks now.

I have a pre-made flash intro. I have redone everything in the existing one. Now, I need to add more frames (I guess frames is the right word - I may mean Layers!). For example, it has frames saying "keyword 1", keyword 2", and "company slogan". I need to add several between "keyword 2" and "company slogan". My friend I'm doing the intro for to put on their website wants to add more sayings before the end of the intro.

If I need to upload what I have so far somewhere for you to see I will and I can also put my swf file somewhere for you to download if needed.

Thank you very much!

Adding A Slideshow To An Existing Flash Site
hey everyone, n00b here. I've been learning flash for a week or two now, and i'm at the point where i want to add a slideshow to a site im developing. I want it to kinda like "overlay" the existing flash site, so that users don't have to load another movie or website to look at pictures. Can anyone help me out with this?

Adding Properties To Existing Custom AS 2 Class
My goal is to add properties to an object at runtime. That object is defined through an external AS2 class.

My class looks like this:

ActionScript Code:
class MyClass {
function MyClass(name:String, args:Array){
_name = name;

for(var i=0; i<args.length; i++){
this[args[i]] = null;
}
}
}

In my timeline I am creating the object like so:

ActionScript Code:
var myObject:MyClass = new MyClass("myObject", ["arg1", "arg2", "arg3"]);

Now if I run a for...in loop on myObject it outputs the _name property and the 3 arguments from above.

But if I try to change the value of one of the object's properties, for example:

ActionScript Code:
myObject.arg1 = 25;

I get this error:

Code:
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 2, frame=1:Line 16: There is no property with the name 'arg1'.
myObject.arg1 = 25;
Please excuse my OOP writing. Brand new at it. But does anyone catch my drift and understand how to do what I am trying to do?

Adding Event Sound To Existing Flash Button
Hello:
I am wondering if one can add an event sound to an existing flash button. The button was created in Dreamweaver and is a flash button but I would like to add a sound effect and was wondering if this could be done. Please let know how to accomplish this if it can be done. Thanks

[MX04] Adding A Scroll To Existing Flash Document
Hello,

I have an existing flash document that has xml loaded onto a graphic. The xml document contains so much data that the information is displayed in 2 columns and users press a button to go to the next set of data in the xml document. Instead of pressing a button to go to the next set of data, I want the data to be displayed all at once but the user should be able to scroll down to view the rest of the xml document data.

I am fairly new to flash. I learned some of it on my own, on the fly. I understand that textfields are used to load and display the xml data. I know I can add buttons and code in the scrolling action. But I don't know how to add it onto an existing flash document. Also I am not sure how the buttons work with the xml being displayed in a graphic.

Any information is appreciated.

Newbie Needs Help: Adding Additional Image Capacity To Existing Slideshow
Hi,
I tried finding the answer by doing a slideshow search but was unsuccessful. I am a newbie who only needs to make some minor changes to some flash files and I am using a trial version of Flash MX.

I am altering a template (that I bought) for our new website. The template came with an 8 image slideshow that fades in and out. I would like to add additional images to the slideshow beyond the 8 image capacity. I am having trouble, however, trying to add new images to the slideshow. When editing imagechanger.fla in Flash MX (to increase the slideshow capacity beyond the 8 image capacity to 9) I am not able to see my edit correctly reflected when going to File->publish preview->flash. Instead, I see all of my other 8 images change fine but not the new 9th one. Here are the steps that I followed after moving imagcahanger.fla to my main directory:

1) Added new layer for Image 9 by doing following:
Insert->timeline->layer, highlighted, copied and pasted existing Image8 layer to the new image9 layer, removed all frames (at the end of the new layer) back to align with end of action layer line, renamed new layer "image9"

2) Action Layer - Selected, copied and pasted the last frame to create an action for the newly inserted image layer. Inserted a keyframe at the end. Edited the Actions frame box to read as follows (changed the "8" to a "9"):
loadMovie("flash/image9.jpg", "_root.pic9");

3) Added a new image9.jpg to my flash folder.

I enclosed the edited file and the original so you can take a look at it. If someone can give me an assist, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance
njb

Adding More Than One Preloader To A Movie.
hey,

professional flash sites have more than one preloader for each indivual page. im well accustommed to preloaders, but i need help in adding more than just one at the beggining that loads your whole movie.

www.retrostar.org when you click on the dates it initiates another preloader.

i really need help in doing this! ive looked everywhere, but i just can't find it.

any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks

Adding EventListener MouseEvent Click To Existing Mc Which Aleady Has Alpha Motion...
hi, my name's jude and i'm an author designing a site for my new publishing company. i want to use a flash button on the site and am having problems finding the right actionscript. i'm a total nOOb in actionscript but i promise i've done lots of research into this - however the only tutes i can find are for starting from scratch making movie clip buttons.

all i want to do is add the actionscript for a mouse click which takes you to the desired URL, to this existing code controlling the motion of the movie clip.

onClipEvent(load)
{
dir = 0;
speed = 6;
original._alpha = 0
this.onRollOver = function()
{
dir = 1;
}

this.onRollOut = function()
{
dir = -1;
}
useHandCursor = true;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
temp = original._alpha + speed*dir;
original._alpha = Math.min(100,Math.max(temp,0));
}

you can see the completed .swf (before i changed the HandCursor to true) here.

and here are screenshots of the relevant pages in flash

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...reenshot-1.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...reenshot-2.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...in/scene-1.jpg

- i would be so grateful for any help from you guys (and, i presume, girls!) - many thanks in advance.

How Do I Go About Adding A Preloader To An Finished Movie
i finished/almost finished a movie but its goin to need a preloader. im new to flash so how would i add one and where can i find a good tutorial on preloaders at? i've seen them around and they never go about adding them to done movies.
thanks

Adding A Preloader To A Movie - Flash 6
Do you have to do anything special to the fla movie when you add a preloader?

the main scene is one frame and has a bunch of movie clips in them.

but the loader is loading at the same time the movie is playing. How do I make the loader load first and then the movie play?

Adding A Preloader To A Finished Movie - Help Please
I have finished all my movies, but have noticed there are small gaps in between loading in new movies within my movie, so as I read in the forum about this, the best way is to add in a preloader. My file sizes are very very small, so I didn't think I'd need one, but I don't want that millisecond blank screen... So I found a generic preloader, which is a stand-alone entire movie. How do I place this into my movies, and where? For example, the first page.. It is the index page. Where do I put the preloader? And for a second example, when I use the funtion loadMovieClip and a new .swf is loaded in, where do I place the preloader fot this file? Thanks for your help!

Adding The Preloader To The Fla Movie (button)
Hello all,

I followed this tutorial :
http://www.actionscript.org/resource...der/Page1.html

and made a working sample with it.

Now I don't really know how to embed it into the button movie. I moved the movie to the 2nd frame, I added the preloader layer + 2 symbols from the sample, but it just doesn't work.

AM.fla is the button, and am+pl.fla is with the preloader, not working.

Thank you for any help

Adding A Preloader To An Already Designed Movie
Hi everyone! I am new to flash and have lots to learn! I made the mistake of creating my whole flash splash page movie and then realizing that I needed to add a pre-loader to the file... I was trying out a few tutorilas on making one and I did find one that said the following:

Q]if your adding this to a already made movie, move your entire movie down 1 frame which should leave a blank keyframe in frame 1. (1 frame is all that is needed for this)

But try as I might I am unable to figure out how exactly to move everything over (I have multiple layers) so that the first frame is blank for all of them. It would have been much simpler if I had done it from the start but the movie took so long I don't want to have to redo it!

any help would be very much appreciated!!! :)

Preloader For Existing SWF
Hello,

I'm new to this group and also very new to Flash. I have several SWF files that I've created using Sorenson Squeeze. I'm trying to figure out a way to add preloaders to them, but have had no luck after much research. Every preloader I've found needs to be put at the beginning of a Flash file to load the remainder of that file. I can't figure out any way to bring these SWFs into Flash and add a preloader. Is there such a thing as a preloader that will load a separate SWF file? Even a javascript one? A progress bar would be nice, but even if it just says "loading..." it would be a step in the right direction.

Thanks!
Tim Webb

Add A Preloader To Existing SWF Possible?
I searched this forum for 'preloader swf' and got zero results so I'm just going to ask my question because I'm not sure if I've got the terminology right.

Quick background....My client wants their corporate Powerpoint on their website with transitions (or as close as possible) so I converted the PowerPoint to SWF with Keynote, uploaded it (code attached below) and it worked just fine. Click a slide to go to the next... great. The problem is that there is no loader graphic to let people know the file is on its way, to be patient. Not being a Flash guy, I don't even know the keywords to help myself search for 'How to's' to figure out how to do this......

I'm sure this is so simple to accomplish that I'd be wasting your time if I asked for instructions so instead..... can anyone give me a few quick pointers on what it is that I'm trying to do (using accurate terminology) so I can look for tutorials or search and read more on how to add a loader graphic to an existing SWF? Or if anyone knows of information I can go directly to, that would be even more helpful. Unfortunately I don't have the time to read the whole Flash help file to figure out how to do this (soon!).

Thanks for the patience and help.

** I have since been researching and found a helpful post that someone else had posted with nearly the same problem. It looks like I have to create a new flash file which 'calls' the already compiled swf output from Keynote....I think lol....

Attach Code

<object width='720' height='540'>
<param name='movie' value='http://globestarmining.com/media/presentations/GlobeStar_Corporate_Presentation-2008.11.swf'>
<embed src='http://globestarmining.com/media/presentations/GlobeStar_Corporate_Presentation-2008.11.swf' width='720' height='540'></embed>
</object>

Edited: 11/25/2008 at 12:35:13 PM by rollandburn

Preloader In Existing SWF
Hello!

I was wondering how I can put a preloader on an exisint swf/fla file.

I have already built the fla but it takes a bit of time to load on my site. I know how to make a preloader (thanks to the tutes here) but how do I put the 2 together?

Thanks in advance!
Peace
Rus

Add/merge Preloader To Existing .fla
i bought a preloader, now how do i add it to my .fla? what's the method of merging these two .fla files (preloader + myfile)?

THANK YOU!!

Preloader & Existing Actions
hi!
i did a gallery using the flash 8 template. simple, works for me, i know only the very basics of flash..
i am trying to put a preloader (thank to your tutorial of the 'advanced preloader' but my question though is where do i start creating it since i already have an action layer? on the existing one?...
i've learn everything about html, css etc on my own... and i bet flash is going to be a great challenge to get to !
thank you for any help you can give me !
caroline r.

Integrating Preloader Into Existing Site.
I've been trying in vain the last four days to integrate a preloader into my site:
http://mrkvavle.byethost4.com/

Is there any easy way to do this? I've tried using multiple scenes etc but I can't get any preloader to work properly.

I'd appreciate it if someone could take a look at my .fla and tell me the easiest way to do this.

fla file

Thanks for any help in advance!

Preload External Images With Existing Preloader
Is there way to tell an existing preloader script to also load the
external jpegs (or at least the first one) that are being dynamically
entered via flashvars? A little hung up on that.

thanks

Reggie

Adding A "fadeout" Line Of Code To An Existing Script
I modified a script i found right here on good ol' F-to-the-K which increases the alpha of my buttons as the cursor approaches them.

When the cursor is over "button01" then, its alpha is 100% while buttons "button02" and "button03" have alpha values of say 80% and 50% - this is all cool and how i want it.

However, when the button is pressed, I'd like all the unselected buttons to just fade away over a time of say 2 seconds.

I guess I need to put a statement like -

Code:
button01.onRelease = function {
button02.alpha FADE AWAY SCRIPT
}

somewhere, but i don't really know how to write it or where to put it (the buttons are MCs btw)

Any help much appreciated

here's the current script, thanks guys and girls

Code:
MovieClip.prototype.distance = function(x, y) {
xm = _root._xmouse;
ym = _root._ymouse;
return Math.sqrt(((x-xm)*(x-xm))+((y-ym)*(y-ym)));
};
button01.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (distance(this._x, this._y)<=400) {
this._alpha = 200-distance(this._x, this._y)*.6;
} else {
this._alpha = 0;
}
};
button02.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (distance(this._x, this._y)<=400) {
this._alpha = 200-distance(this._x, this._y)*.6;
} else {
this._alpha = 0;
}
};
button03.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (distance(this._x, this._y)<=400) {
this._alpha = 200-distance(this._x, this._y)*.6;
} else {
this._alpha = 0;
}
};

Trouble Adding Animation To Existing Rollover Animation
Hey all,

I'm using Flash 8. I have a picture of a building which is segmented into floors. Upon rolling over a grouping of floors the user sees either a blue overlay, indicating they can click, or a gray overlay simply describing what the floor is. I already have some actionscript in place and I don't need to alter it, I just added more animation to an existing movieclip rollover, but it's not quite working. On one of the floors that rolls-over gray, I want an additional rollover with some text. So I made a movie clip of the rollover animating out and the type coming in and I just added it to the gray fade in movie clip since there was already onRollover actionscript in place there. However, the rollover kept playing over and over again. So, of course I added a Stop action. Then, the animation didn't work anymore, it just rolled over to the final state of that animation. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do, or what I can do as an alternative? I'll post the actionscript in case that helps. Like I said, the rollover "rolls-over" but either loops (without a Stop action), or rolls over to the final frame in the animation (with a Stop action).

Thanks!
Mc

[CS3] Adding A Rollover Animation To An Existing Animation?
Hi there,

Sorry if the question sounds a bit confusing, but I've previously managed to create rollover animations for static movieclips, but I'm really struggling to add a rollover animation to a movieclip that already has an existing looping animation, and also ensure that there is a smooth transition regardless of where the looping animation has reached? Similar to what's in the following sites:

http://unlimited.orange.co.uk/flash/go

http://www.ileduboucanier.com/ileduboucanier.html

Any ideas/tips/links to tutorials would be greatly appreciated!

Adding An Existing Preloader To A New Movie

I have an existing preloader that is two scenes long. How do I add this to an already existing movie that has one scene? Thanks!