Flash :: Preloader Preview

Preloader Working On Local Preview, Not On Web.
Hello AS.org. This is my first post here so I'll start off with a hello. My name is Jeff. I'm a freelancer out of Savannah, GA. and I've been coming here forever and finding lots of great help.

I have a page that loads videos that were shot on greenscreen and alpha-channeled so that a virtual assistant would pop out when you clicked buttons. However the client was complaining about load times and wanted to add in a preloader and loader bar for the videos.

What's weird is that I got the preloader and loader bars working on my machine (with external links to the videos). The site loads fine both in CS3 Preview mode and when I view the .html in a browser from my local machine. However, when I upload the same files to my web server, the videos aren't loaded and the loading bar doesn't work (when you click on the buttons for other videos it just sits at 0%).

I'm relatively new to ActionScript (been messing with it for maybe a year) and haven't ever experienced anything like this.

You can check out the non-working demo at : http://www.netbiztek.com/sga/TSGAIntroduction.html
The .fla source can be downloaded from : http://www.netbiztek.com/sga/TSGAIntroduction.fla If you load that in CS3 and preview it, the site should work properly.

I would greatly appreciate anyone's help. I'm also glad to have finally created an account here and look forward to more daily browsing.

Thank you,

~Jeff

Flash Preview #0016329 - 100 Frames Preloader
Last edited by Anik : 2008-05-12 at 07:46.

I'm new to this website. I think it's fantastically designed and a very state of the art database driven website.

I purchased with credits on this website a pre-loader that will go excellent with a flash project I started, however, I can't seem to get it to work correctly.

My animated Flash movie is 570 frames, here is the action script for the pre-loader:

I've tired to just stick the movie into the second frame above all the pre-loader stuff which the pre-loader is all in the first frame of 3 or 4 layers - did NOT work, I also tried making another scene, it did NOT work either.

Please be very clear with what you say so I can understand it please.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks you in advance!

Brian

How To Make Fake Loop Preloader Just For Preview Purpose
hi

I need help to make the fake preloader just for preview purpose.
Actually I've the complete working preloader with bar animation and the percent text.When user view the preloader at first time they see the bar animation and increasing percent.What I want is they don't have to clear the cache every time to view it again. I want it to loop with the same animation and percent (from 0% to 100%)

I know it can be done something by creating a variable and counting it up from 0 to 100 and using it as the bytes_loaded, with bytes_total being equal to 100.

But I don't know how...please help.

Thanks

HTML Preview Works, But Flash Preview Doesn´t
I made a little app. with some display containers and tween (regular) alpha effects. It works fine in the html preview (& file) but it doesn´t in the flash one (containers/layers order/alpha/transitions doesn´t works correctly).

When I upload the files to my server, I have the same problem.

Any ideas about what's going on?

Publish Preview As Flash VS Publish Preview As Html
Ive made a movie that add strings from several input text fields to an array. This array is sent from the flash video to php.
This is working fine when I preview the movie as Flash. The php script prints the variables as intended.

But when I preview it as html the arrays are all empty...
Can anyone tell me why?

ActionScript Code:
on (release) { number_of_attr1 = main._currentframe + 1; suggestions1 = new Array(); if(main.attr1.text.isEmpty()) { gotoAndStop(8); } else { for(i=1; i<=number_of_attr1; i++) { attr = main["attr"+i] suggestion = attr.text; if(!suggestion.isEmpty()) { suggestions1.push(suggestion); } } var submit1 = new LoadVars(); submit1.sugg1 = suggestions1; submit1.send("<a href="http://mylink.php" target="_blank">http://mylink.php","_self","POST</a>"); }//end else}

Pen Preview
I can not view my pen preview when I draw shapes or view beize handles. I am using Flash 5 (Educational version) and have the box checked in my Preferences. I've been using it this way for about 3 months and now I can't take it anymore. Any help?

Nothing Happens When Preview
I used Web Studio, Version 2 by Sierra to build my website and am trying to do a new intro page with Flash. I downloaded the trial version of Swish and created an intro I like, but when cutting and pasting the HTML to Web Studio for a preview, all I get is a blank white page. Is anyone familiar with the Web Studio software? I am importing the saved HTML created by Swish. Any help would be great as I am really new to this.

Thanks!!

MMS Preview
Hi,

I want to create a slide show through Flash MX. The values should come from a XML file. In the slide show I want images(jpg, gif), audios(wav) and time duration also through xml itself. PLs help me asap

Thanks

Regards
Jyotika Sood

No Preview ?
hi there people

i have a strange problem
when i want to preview my site (that is complete build in flash MX) the browser starts and he loading and loading an simple don't stops loading , can somebody tell me what went/is wrong ?!?!

greetz LiQie

Preview FLV
Hi
Please help

How to preview each frames of FLV, as thumbnail view?

Help Please, I Need Preview
Is there a way to view the file preview (gif, jpg, mp3) before upload it to the server (using filereference class) width ActiuonScript 2 or 3?

Best Regardes.

Preview
Can I preview a portion/section (just modified) of the movie instead of starting from the beginning everytime?

TIA

Will Not Preview In Browser
Hi, i'm new to Flash, and have just created my first movie.
In the 'test movie' option everything works ok.
When i go to 'preview in browser' i get the following problems:
'preview default html'- the page appears but there is no animation.
'preview flash'- a dialogue box appears reading 'cannot open protected movie'
Can anyone help?

Preview In Flash Different To Swf?
here's something strange:

i've got a movie with this simple actionscript:

stop ();
if (key.isdown(13)) {
play ();
}

which stops the movie and waits for the user to press enter.
if i preview the movie within flash, it works perfect.
if i double-click the resulting .swf file and view it with the player it doesn't work (does not react on pressing enter)
how come????

saint.

Preview Different Than Design
I am brand new to Flash and can't figure out why my intro looks so different when I go to Control -> Test Movie. The fonts don't look as sharp, and my fades don't work. If I drag the bar along the timeline while I'm designing it, it looks great, but once I publish it, the fonts and fading are different. Any ideas? Thanks!

PS, I'm using Flash MX if that matters...

Aaron

Publish Preview
Hello,
i have finally completed my first flash web page, but i am having some problems with the publish preview aspect.
The html index page it created has the main enter button missing,plus i still dont know how to upload it on to a server/web host ? can any one give me some advise or explain.

Component Preview
Hi!
I made a component.
I made another swf file to act as the preview movieClip,
as in the macromedia docs.
My problem is what I want to preview is an attachMovie.
But the attachMovie is done in the librairy of the preview swf, Not in the one where the component is.
What is the problem?
How can I made a preview for a component It can attach a movieclip in the librairy of the swf where the component is?

Tnx!

Streaming Preview
I tryed the streaming option in preview window to simulate modem download times. Well, it works fine a the beginning of the movie but when there is an attached swf with "loadMovie", it is loaded in no time! How come?
Thanks for your attention.

Publish & Preview
I have a game that I have been testing with Publish Preview. I just did a normal publish on it and the file behaves very differently from the preview. When I play the the publish preview version, everything works fine, but when I play the .swf file, the code stops running or something, the movie clips are still animated but everything is standing still. Why does this happen? Is there anything I can do to fix it or do I have to completely change my implementation.

Preview In Flash
I Don't like the text preview in flash. If I use device fonts the preview is better but then everybody can't see the text like I think. How can I do. Sorry for my English. I'm Spanish

Preview Drawing
When every I try to draw somthing, it doesn't have the preview outline of how big you make it. Is there something I clicked on to deativate it?

Problems With Preview
I've made a Flash movie and when I go to Publish it, or at least Preview the Published movie, the components aren't the same as the .fla file. For example, I made sure all the buttons were enabled in the .fla file before publishing and in the .swf it doesn't even show it as a button, like when I rollover the text it doesn't change colors and let me click it like the button features allow me to do in the fla file! What is wrong?
Also, in another .fla file, I wrote some dynamic text and then when I publish it, half of the text is gone but the graphics are all there. What could be wrong there?

Preview Movieclips
hey pplz. i know this iz possible but i dont know how to enable it lol ^^'.

ok i just need to know how to view movie clips in the timeline.

coz im importing swift 3d clips into my movie but i need my stick guy to move wround with them and i cant synchronise him with the 3d clips if i cant view them in the timeline.

if anyone knows wot im talking about. plz reply

thanx

Skribble
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www.freewebs.com/skribble/

Live Preview ?
I have been playing around with a sample file from flash MX. I think I understand the actionscript, but I have been having problems with the live preview. (I think...)

The sample file is "Feature highlight: Components, Live Preview, and Custom UI" it is in the sample folder for flash MX. My problem comes when I want to change the 1 or 2 player icon. I get it all changed in the library, and it publishes fine. But in flash it still gives the old icon.

Any Ideas....

Flash Preview.. GAH
Hey, i am making a flash intro for my site, and i have included a song to go in the background (Groove Armada - My Friend)

I am fading text in and out, and i positiond these effects to go in time with the beat. When i hit Preview in Flash the effects were in time with the song. So i kept previewing my movie in Flash and continuing with my effects.

When i was finnished i decided to preview my movie in HTML and the song was out of time with the effects?! Does the Flash preview play at a different frame rate to the HTML preview? My actuall frame rate for the movie is 30fps, does the flash frame rate play different to that? The HTML preivew looks the same speed, but the song (or the effects) are out of time.

Any help would be gratefully appected..

Can't Preview Swf Online
Hi,

I hope I could find some help here.

I made a banner in flash 5 but I couldn't see it when uploaded. The section remains blank white with the error code.
I already installed the latest flash and swf player from the macromedia site.

One thing though.. I have no problems with viewing swf from other site... it's just weird.

Thax anyhows

Instant Preview With .txt's
Say a person fills out a couple of input fields. When they hit a "submit button" I want a .txt file to be written on their system with the input information. Then on the next page I want flash to search for that .txt and incorporate their input into a templated movie. Can this .txt stuff be done??? Thanks

Preview Console
I was just woundering how i would make something for small clips or music, that shows the Depths of the music. Or something like a scope for the music, what I was looking at was something like this. http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Ambi...7632/index.php

Preview Window
whenever i preview a movie clip its either off the screen or only partly in view, even if my registration point is bang on centre on my movie clip. How can i preview movie clips in the centre of the screen?

Publish Preview
With Flash MX 2004:

Using File->Publish Preview->Default

I can see the "publish" progress bar flash quickly and completes, but the movie does NOT open up IE and play.

If IE is already open to a random page, then a new IE window opens and the movie plays.

Any idea on why I have to have IE already running for this to work properly?

Preview Looping
1) When I go to preview a flash file I am creating it constantly loops, also the same when I publish a file. How do I set a file to only play once and stop at the end of the file. I have tried changing the REPEAT to 0. I know there is a simple fix to this, so thanks for the help in advance.

2) Also, I am wanting to create a small "interface" entirely in flash for a work related project with a menu, different options and such. When someone clicks on the menu option I want it to "change to a new screen" that contains the information for that option. I see many, many of the experts create wonderful entire websites along the same line. My question is, what is that new screen effect called so I can look up tutorials on how to do such.

Thanks in advance.
Brian

Preview Problem
Folks I have a movie I am working on but when I view my text in Flash it does exactly what I want with motion, text effects etc but when I preview I only see the raw text without the effects and motion I saw in Flash.

I uploaded the test.fla and test.swf file in case someone can take a look and maybe help. Been trying for a while but no results.

www.paraisocz.com/test/test.swf

Thanks
Dave

A Symbol Preview?
I am using flash MX 7.2 2004 and I had some questions to ask regards on this stick figure animation.

1 - I saw the animation and found that when the stick figure is enlarged (Camera is Zoom in), the width and length of the line also enlarged at the same time. I tried on my Flash MX but the width did not enlarge, only the length. how?

2 - the stick figure continues the animations when the stick is zoomed in and out. how?

3 - I had a circle symbol as "movie clip". i added animation within the movie clip which the circle will move left to right. I went back to my scene (Main page), the circle did not moving. And everytime i want to preview animation, i need to complied to SWF.

Any ways to preview a movie clip within the work area or without having complied to SWF?

Preview In HTML
When I try to publish my web in Flash in HTML, the web doesnt show anything But a statement in the bar " To help protect your security, I.E has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer. "

What happens?

Any suggestion is appreciate

Publish Preview
What will cause that the flash file cant preview in html?

Live Preview
I'm sorry to ask such a basic question, but, I've spent the past few hours of my life searching on Google, browsing multiple Flash sites, and I can't find an answer to this question that works.

How do I get live preview to work in Flash MX 2004? How can I make a live preview for a component?

Can't Export Mov Or See Preview
2 Questions:
Trying to do this tutorial: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/snow.htm

1. I try to export as a Quicktime mov and it says:"The installed verison of quicktime does not have a handler for this type of marcomedia flash movie."

2. When I go to publish-preview, i see a progress bar for about one second and then the hourglass for a second..and then nothing. No new window comes up to show me my movie clip or anything...so I don't know if the snow works.

Also just to be sure i'm on the right track:
My friend is doing a play where he needs snow projected onto a large screen on stage...so i figured this would be a good way of doing it.

Thanks in advance for your help,
P.

Preview As Popup
Hi there,

how can i preview my fla.(Ctrl+enter) as a pop up, like in F5, instead of tab viewing in MXpro?

thanks

Preview Frustration
Hello everyone,

I'm about to scream I'm so incredibly frustrated with this. I have a Home button with action script on it to return to frame 175 {(on(release); gotoandstop ("Intromain", 175); } etc.) of the first scene (after the intro)... it used to work. So I continued to work on my webpage and after completing 3 more scenes, I did Ctrl+Enter to preview the dang thing. Now, for some unknown reason that very same Home button now doesn't take me to frame 175. Instead it plays a loop of the entire intro which should be skipped when using this button...

THAT SAID - when I push Ctrl+Alt+B to test the buttons - the SAME BUTTON takes me to frame 175 of Intromain!!!!!! Why is it working in Button testing mode but not in preview? Any ideas? Can you understand my frustration??????

Thank to anyone who can help me.

Kat

[F8] Tutorial And/or Example Of App Preview?
I need to create a small flash movie for my website to show a variety of screenshots from my commercial app. The idea is to zoom and pan around a variety of pages (with suitable transitions) in my app to give visitors an idea of the way it looks and to add some interest to the home page. The sort of thing I'm looking at is used on the www.mindjet.com website.

I am probably going to use Flash 8 to do this, which is pretty new to me, so any help I can get would be good. Are there any tutorials on the web to show me the best way to do this? I know how to do it in a crude way, but I imagine this has been done umpteen times before.

Any help or advice much appreciated.

Paul

Preview Mac/Safari On P.C.
Hi Guys,

Does anyone know a way to preview a mac browser on P.C?
One of my flash apps is giving me funny business when loaded on a
Mac/Safari browser and I'd really like to be able to preview it myself.

Kind Regards
Ryan Mac

Can't Use The Publish Preview
I go File: Publish Preview: HTML... but nothing happens. no windows open. Even if I previously open a window, no preview will be published.

I tried to use firefox instead of explorer but nothing changes.
Internet works just fine...
What's up? Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help if you can help

Preview Of A Website?
Im looking to create some type of banner-like signature that will contain a small preview of a website, the content on the website dynamically updates and is of a mixed content. Normally I would just create an IFrame and do it that way but Iframes are forbidden on the particualr website I'm wanting to use it for.

any thoughts on how this could be accomplished?

Another note: the webpage that I am referencing is actually in .php; updates every 60 minutes automatically.

Flash In Preview
This is a tech issue regarding the media player option. i am using the overlay skin trying to play a video file. I hear the audio of the video file but there is no picture. No matter what skin i use that supports video files there is no picture just audio! I have the file in MPEG-4 format. PLEASE help me!! I beg of you. Is there anything i can do?

[CS3] Can't Preview In Browser
I have a photography site that I designed in Frontpage. I consists of the index page, which lists many categories, a couple of which are: "wildlife", "people", etc.

In Dreamweaver I opened a new folder and copied the contents of the Frontpage site into this folder. I then redesign the tables in DW, and inserted the thumbnails, links , etc. I renamed it and saved it. I assumed that was my ROOT DIRECTORY, because it holds the contents of the site.

The new site works just great! Using some my photos, I built some FLASH MOVIES that were sized to fit into some of the table cells. They also played successfully in the cells. But DW, in it's infinite wisdom, has created it's own ROOT DIRECTORY and gave it the same name as the directory that holds my redesigned site and it's contents. And that..... is where it is putting the FLASH MOVIES. Why is it doing that?

I don't know if that's the problem, but when I try to PREVIEW IN BROWSER, the cell is blank.

Can anyone tell me where I've strayed off the path?????

THANKS... oslavens

[CS3] Can't Preview In Browser
I have a photography site that I designed in Frontpage. I consists of the index page, which lists many categories, a couple of which are: "wildlife", "people", etc.

In Dreamweaver I opened a new folder and copied the contents of the Frontpage site into this folder. I then redesign the tables in DW, and inserted the thumbnails, links , etc. I renamed it and saved it. I assumed that was my root directory, because it holds the contents of the site.

The new site works just great! Using some my photos, I built some Flash movies that were sized to fit into some of the table cells. They also played successfully in those cells. But DW, in it's infinite wisdom, has created it's own root directory and gave it the same name as the directory that holds my redesigned site and it's contents. And that..... is where it is putting the Flash movies. Why is it doing that?

I don't know if that's the problem, but when I try to Preview In Browser, the cell is blank.

Can anyone tell me where I've strayed off the path????? How do I designate the directory (that holds all my site contents) as the root directory for this new site?

Thanks... oslavens

Thumbnail Preview
Hi All,

this should be pretty strait forward, and Iv found quite a lot of tutorials around to do this sort of thing, but none are quite what Im looking for

Im working on a website that has a gallery page, on the gallery page will be thumbnails that you can click to view a larger image along with the description.
I only want to show 5 thumbnails at a time, and have buttons to automatically scroll the thumbnails 5 spaces at a time. and THEN load the next 5 thumbnails.

Iv included a swf file showing pretty much exactly what I want it to do (yellow squares would be thumbnails with a button on) but this is purely animated, I want to convert this into something I can dynamically change by editing an array or somthing of the sort.

If anyone can help me out by either creating a similar thing, or pointing me in the direction of a good tutorial for this Il be very greatful

I know how to load images into a movieclip and I know how to move movie clips usig actionscript, im just having trouble putting these two things together

thanks in advance guys

Tom

MP3 Preview - First 30 Seconds?
Hi there

I have a music player that streams an mp3 but currently it streams the whole song, I want to modify it so that it streams just a 'snippet' say the first 30 seconds. Can this be one?

I have tried a few things but now I am racking my brains can someone please help me?

I have attached the FLA in the zip and here is a link to an example of how it works: http://www.leobackingtracks.co.uk/pl...eltic%20Dreams

Thanks for the help in advance.

Cheers
Zink