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Preloaders And Movies Loaded With LoadMovie
I was wondering, do the simple preloaders (the ones that occur in the first two frames--getbytesTotal...else gotoAndplay (1) yada yada) take into account movieclips that load movies with the loadMovie script?

Because I have an fla that contains 4 different swfs that are loaded with the loadMovie action--but the preloader never really takes time to load...even when I simulate download on 14.4.

So I was thinking that because the files that are loaded with loadMovie are technically not inside the .fla and are loaded later, maybe the preloader isn't taking them into account. any answers would be appreciated

Thanks for the help,

Thayn

Loaded Movies And Preloaders
Hey everyone, I'm having some trouble with loaded movies...I'm using them to build my layout, so the nav is one swf, the content area is another, and the top and bottom areas are separate swfs. Each swf has its own simple preloader.

If I embed one of those swfs into an HTML page by itself and open it in a browser, the preloader works.

But, if I embed the final 'base' swf that loads each of those layout pieces, their preloaders don't do anything...the movies just play when the browser's ugly blue progress bar at the bottom is done.

What am I missing?

Thanks so much!

Preloaders For Loaded Movies
I'm having trouble in that i get a pause when i try and load movies into my main movie (into level 1 using the loadmovie action). I have a preloader for each movie i'm loading, but it doesn't work very well, as there's a pause and then after a few seconds the preloader comes up briefly then the movie plays. I would like the "loading bar" to come up as soon as i click on the link

To view the problem, it's www.randyclothing.com.au - just click on any of the links there... they're all loaded movies and the preloaders don't kick in for seconds. It's annoying, and i'm not too experienced with scripting so i probably have done something stupid.

here is the preloader script:

loadedbytes = getBytesLoaded();
totalbytes = getBytesTotal();
if (loadedbytes == totalbytes) {
gotoAndPlay(3);
}
frame = int(loadedbytes/(totalbytes/100));
loader.gotoAndStop(frame);

the script in my main movie to load movie is as follows:

on (release) {
gotoAndStop(135);
loadMovieNum("g4.swf", 1);
}

any help would be appreciated. (i have a gotoandStop (135) there, because i want to first have the button disappear before loading the movie, so you can't keep clicking on it)

Preloaders For Externally Loaded Movies.
Hi,

I am having a problem with preloaders in movies which are loaded into another movie. Basically I have this on the first frame of the movie:

total_bytes = _level0.backHolder.getBytesTotal();
loaded_bytes = _level0.backHolder.getBytesLoaded();
percent_done = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100);
bar._width = percent_done;
if(percent_done == 100) {
stop();
_level0.nextFrame();
}

Which loops over 2 frames with a gotoAndPlay(1) on the next frame. Trouble is the movie which is loading this in should stop at Frame one until this is loaded (_level0.nextFrame()) but it isn't, it's moving to frame 2 where the next movie is loaded...why? This is a Flash 5 example and I am using mx 2004?

Maybe it would be better for the main movie to assign the preloader and control the loading? But how can I do this?

Hope someone can help

NEil

LoadMovie From Loaded Movies
I guess that makes this a loaded question huh?! I'm knew here so take it easy on me

Ok so I'm building my site entirely in flash. It all works great, very few problems so far. My question isn't a problem as much as a 'how to'

My set up is a main swf of course with buttons that load the other swf files into it. Pretty basic. What I want to do is have a button on my home.swf (which is loading IN to the main.swf) that will call portfolio.swf into the main.swf. Does that make sense? So I have a button on my main.swf that is linking to portfolio. I want a button on one of the 'loadMovie' pages to also 'loadMovie' into my blank movie clip which is housed on the main.swf.

Does that make sense? If so, is it possible?

Many thanks!
L

LoadMovie : The Loaded Movies No Start
i have on small movie : little.swf
i have a bigger one : the_big.swf
__________________________________________________________
in the_big.swf:
i have a movieclip in order to load external movies in :
ActionScript Code:
_root.loader

ActionScript Code:
on (press) {
_root.loader._x = 0; // to place the new movie
_root.loader._y = 0;

_root.loader.loadMovie("movies/contacts.swf",_root.loader); [b] // a[/b]

_root.loader.play(); [b] // b[/b]
}

// a : it runs ( i see the 1st frame if the little on the_big )
// a : i tried also
ActionScript Code:
_root.loader.loadMovie("movies/contacts.swf");

( with the same result )
--------------------------------------------------------
// b : i dont know if it is neccessary but, its no use whatever !!
___________________________________________________________
in little.swf
i start the play with a bouton.
i tried with

ActionScript Code:
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
global.i++;
if (i == 70) {
_root.principal.gotoAndPlay(2);......

____________________________________________________________

RESULT : Alone, little.swf runs perfectly
But once loaded in thebig.swf, the play doesnt want to start !!

thx all

Preloaders For Loading Movies Within Movies
I have a main movie and within that movie other movies are loaded, but it takes too long to load. Is it possible to preload a movie within a movie? An example is at www.henrycraig.net

thanks for any help
Henry Craig
hcraig4@hotmail.com

Preloaders For Movies.
Can someone link me to a tutorial on how to make a preloader for my movies?

Preloaders Load Outside Movies?
Do preloaders load movies that are outside of the main movie? like, my FPS is too slow (5 fps) cuz i'm doing a presentation and at the end i need faster frame rate cuz i need smoother animations, so i'm loading an external movie. will my preloader load the external movies too? or do i need extra actionscript. it's supposed to be a smooth transisition to the external movie so it won't be noticed...

need help! plz!

Preloaders And Multiple Movies
hie,

i've been working on a site with a main movie, and several separate movies that are loaded in, when the user click on specified buttons.

My thing is that all those separate movies have a preloader scene, but when they are loaded into the main movie, the preloader scene, doesn't play, and it start playing directly from the main scene..

Example.. i have the main movie (intro), when finished loads the menus (external movie, you should first see the preloader, and after that the menu), if you click in projects (another movie start loading).

Thanks in advance !!

Loading Movies/preloaders
ok, i have a movie, with a preloader. In the main scene, i need for a swf to load, at an exact time, my problem is that i cant do this, because if i were to put the actionscript to load it on a frame, the preloader would not load that swf as well right? How do i make it so the preloader loads the swf thats specified in the AC, as well as the main scene?

Multiple Movies And Preloaders
Ok I'm building a timeline with a series of important dates! The viewer will be able to click on the date to view a small video of the event! At the end of the video, it goes back to the timeline....

I need the small video to be on their own preloader, so that the viewer only preload what he/she wants to see!

I've build everything, and I use the
on (press) {
loadMovie("1895mc.swf", _root.mc);
}
method to start my outside video! It works great locally!!!!!
As soon as I put it on the server, when you click on the date, the whole video loads before it starts playing.... You only see the preloader after everything is loaded (kind of defeat the purpose)
Anyway what script do I need to use to play the outside .swf without loading it into the main movie first? I do need to keep the timeline loaded to go back to it at the end of the video without having to reload!
I've posted the .swf and the .fla to download here:

http://inexo.com/demo/

Right now the first date 1895 is the only one with a video and yes it will be compressed to make sure the file size is acceptable!...1903, 1953 and a couple others have sound but no video yet!!! You can download the main .fla and the 1895.fla to check out the logic! The graphic part of the preloader for 1895 is not done so if it looks weird.....it's normal!!!

Thanks

Loading Movies With Preloaders
I am loading a large swf into a target in my main movie. This loaded swf contains a preloader that I don't want to play after the first time it loads (i.e. if the user leaves the screen then goes back to that screen I don't want them to see the preloader again). Any suggestions on the best way to do this? I tried setting a variable upon the initial load, but that doesn't seem to be working.

Thanks in advance.

Preloaders And Nested Movies
I have a quick confirmation question--if indeed I am right. I have a loader component loading an external movie. The movie I'm loading needs to be preloaded. So, should I go back to the external movie and create a new scene with a preloader? Or, can I accomplish all of this from the my main movie? Thanks.

Add Preloaders To Completed Movies?
http://www.dadshrine.com/interview.php

I interviewed George Lowe for my site, and I wanted people to be able to hear his responses. But the 56kers have to wait rediculously long to hear them, I was wondeing if I could just pop these into individual preloaders, so they know when the file is ready.

Thanks,
Jeff

Preloaders And Compressed Movies
Hello,
I have the following problem: whenever I put a preloader in the first scene and select "Compress movie" in Publish settings, the preloader bar/graphics start showing after 20-30% of the movie is loaded. Is there a workaround that glitch or is the only way to go not to compress the movie (ARGH!)?

Thnx

External Movies And Preloaders?
I am curious about preloaders.... and which are best in these instances..

for a big file like this do you think the swf is an external swf being loaded?
http://www.elizabeththegoldenage.net/site.html

http://www.thingswelostinthefire.com/

For big swf movies like this is it best to load an external SWF and if so next question is how do you use a preloader to load an external swf? simple example?
Thanks

External Movies' Preloaders
Hi,

I'm using empty movie clips to load a few particularly large external swfs into my website. Each external swf has its own preloader. I've tested these and work perfectly normal - independently.

Once I load them into the website, the preloaders appear not to function and the external swfs load in really choppy and slow. I'm using getbytesloaded preloaders so this shouldn't be happening.

Anyone know what is up? should I change the preloaders in the external swf from _root commands to something else?

Thanks

Help: Preloaders For Various Flash Movies ...
FlashMX Actionscript:

I am basically having a problem with my site.
I have one flash file, and from there are several
links. Each new link when clicked opens up a new flash
movie using loadmovie in a target movie clip.
I created preloaders for each of the individual flash
files.
However when testing for streaming, it does not work.
My site is
http://www.msdivine.net/alexeisayle/alexeisayle.htm

Example, from the main flash file, when I click on
filmography, the movie laods, but prelaoder doesn't
work. However, when I test my filmography movie
indiviually, by running filmography.htm, the preloader
works. Please advise.

It's easier to see this problem on modem connections.
since faster connections already loads the files.

=====
Toodles,
Ms. Divine
http://www.msdivine.net

External Movies And Preloaders
i dunno if anyone's had this problem or knows how to solve it but any help would be greatly appreciated! here goes...

my movie resides completely on the first frame and i have external videos (quicktime movies converted into swf files) that are loaded in when the user clicks a button. this is all groovey and works fine; however, the size of the project is such that it now requires a preloader. i moved the movie to frame 2 and built a bog standard preloader in frame 1 but whenever the external swf movies load in, the playhead jumps to frame 1 and the whole lot starts again. i have added a stop() command to the first frame of the main movie but still no joy. if anyone has any ideas, please, please let me know...

chees

Cached Movies - Avoiding Preloaders
If a flash movie with a preloader loads and runs through - if the user then returns to the page with the movie on does he/she have to watch the movie preload again...

Presumably it is stored in their cache and the preload scene could be avoided....is there any way of using actionscript to skip the preload second time around..?

Calling Movies And Preloaders Vows
Hi peoples, this question is regarding the following website: www.aniphase.com

I'm having difficulties with a site. The structure of it is such that when pressing a button another section loads with the loadmovie script. Each section has a preloader scene that leads to a main scene. The script in the last frame of the preloader movie is as follows:

if (_root.percentLoaded == 100) {
gotoAndPlay("Environments", 1);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}

Now the problem is most of the time the viewer goes into any of the sections for the second time it tends to go blank or play funny, example: the profile section).

Can anybody take a look at the site and maybe diagnose what's going on?

Thanks

iam2001

External Movies' Preloaders Problem
Hi all,

I've set up a website to load external .swfs to save load time up front. Each of these swfs has their own preloader. The idea being, when the user clicks on one of those links, a preloader would display loading the external movie.

These movies do load in, but no preloader runs and the screen is left blank for quite sometime until they partially load in.

What's up? I have a getbytesloaded preloader on my maintimeline and each of the external movies uses getbytesloaded.

I'm using a simple loadmovie command to call them.

Help........would be greatly appreciated
thanks.

Preloaders And External Movies, Best Practise?
Hi everyone,

What's the best way use preloaders with external movies in terms of getting the preloader up onscreen as fast as possible. Hate having a blank screen hanging for a few seconds before the preloader appears!

I'm building a dynamic flash site that loads content (external movies) on demand. I've built the preloader (also an external movie) into the first frame of the other external movies, but there remains a lot of lag. The preloader is common to all the movies and is only 2kb but takes a few seconds before is appears.

Should I be building the preloader into the main movie?

Thanks
Rob

Preloaders For Different Movies/site Check Please.
hi there,
I have one flash file, and from there are several links. Each new link when clicked opens up a new flash movie using loadmovie in a target movie clip.
I created preloaders for each of the individual flash files.
However when testing for streaming, it does not work.
My site is http://www.msdivine.net/alexeisayle/alexeisayle.htm

Example, from the main flash file, when I click on filmography, the movie laods, but prelaoder doesn't work. However, when I test my filmography movie indiviually, by running filmography.htm, the preloader works. Please advise.

It's easier to see this problem on modem connections. since faster connections already loads the files.

Please help

Preloaders In LoadMovie
Are these handled the same way? Im trying to load a swf file into the main, I can load it fine but if I try to add a preloader to the swf Im trying to load, it does not show the loader bar at all and stops on frame 2 (there is no stop in frame 2) of the loaded movie......I hope I made sense.

Loadmovie Preloaders
Hi all,

I know this must be easy, but I'm stuck anyway. I want to load large
movie clips stored in a folder into my flash movie. They are large enough that they need a preloader, but all preloaders I have tried do not work on movies called up on a loadMovie command.

What am I missing?

LoadMovie() And Preloaders
I am loading an image into a blank movie clip.
How do I go about having a preloader for each picture that gets loaded?
I'm no expert at this. What I don't get is how the first frame can have a preloader if the dynamically loaded image will automatically be plugged into the first frame.

Any help would be appreciated.

Preloaders And LoadMovie
Okay, so I posted a few days ago about this front page I'm doing as a redesigning of the website my friend and I run. I've solved the problems I had with the old post, but now I've got some new ones.

I used one of the tutorials on this site, specifically the clever "random footer" code, which uses a random number generator to pull up a random external swf file. I'm using that on this front page, but as a way to randomly load "presenter" clips, where our cartoon selves pop up and say hi in various different forms. At the moment there's only one, but anyway..

The problem is, the front page loads and all, but when it starts to load the external "presenter" movie (http://robertandtim.topcities.com/1.swf, only 20-odd KB), it ignores the preloader and its scripting, which should appear in the centre until the rest of the clip is loaded, and loads frame by jerky frame, totally ruining the effect of the two presenters springing up.

http://robertandtim.topcities.com/frontpage.html

has anybody had any experience with this sort've thing? I can't upload the .fla unfortunately, which exceeds the maximum file size.

I'm using Flash MX (pre 2004)

To clarify: When I tried to have my movie load an external movie onto the stage, it skipped the preloader.

LoadMovie Preloaders
I found a little problem with preloaders in dynamically loaded SWFs while testing them in Flash's download simulation.

The preloader doesn't show, and neither does the content of the SWF, but in normal Ctrl-Enter test movie mode, it works fine, except you don't get to test the preloader because everything is local.

Any help?

Thanks

--iMat

Preloaders For LoadMovie
i have been using preloaders for a while, but i have only been able to get them to work on the beginning of a website. Now i am trying to use them to display as needed when i am loading external content into a placeholders. is there an easy way to do this, ie only with code so i dont have to completely redo the timeline of my movie?
thanks

LoadMovie & Preloaders
I have a loadmovie code loading the swf that has the player and a streaming flv. However I want to preload this streaming video maybe 25% prior to it playing so that it does not lag. But everything I try to do is not working..

I have an swf that has a progressive downloaded movie flv, and the player, and it loading into the main site using

blankmovie.loadMovie("videos/copyright1.swf", true);

I then put a preloader on copyright1.swf but I dont think it works right considering I know that swf file imports the FLV, and the player. This is what I have for the preloader on copyright1.swf

stop();
var myInterval:Number = setInterval(preloader, 10);
function preloader (){
if(_root.getBytesLoaded() >= _root.getBytesTotal());{
gotoAndPlay("2");
clearInterval(myInterval);
}
bar_mc._xscale = (_root.getBytesLoaded() / _root.getBytesTotal()) * 100;
}

I dont think this worked correctly so I tried doing a Movie Class loader but it seems not to work either.. this is what I had for that...

this.createEmptyMovieClip("e_mc", 2);
var mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var mclListener:Object = new Object();
mcl.addListener(mclListener);
mclListener.onLoadProgress = function(e_mc, bl, bt)
{
var percentage = Math.round(bl / bt * 100);
trace(percentage);
};
mclListener.onLoadComplete = function(e_mc)
{
do what you want
trace("finished!");
mcl.loadClip("videos/copyright1.swf", e_mc);
position e_mc
e_mc._x = 10;
e_mc._y = 153.8;
}

Does anyone know what I can do to preload the streaming video? Help! Does anyone have a working code? Or atleast know what im doing wrong? I am so confused!

LoadMovie And Preloaders
If I loadmovie in the main timeline can my main timeline read the bytes total and the bytes loaded so I can make a preloader? If not, what is the alternative? Thanks, Dvl

LoadMovie() And Preloaders
hi guys,

i'm trying to put a preloader into a movie that uses loadMovie to show jpgs in a container clip. I'm dealing with a lot of files and put the site together so that these can be changed without altering the fla at all. All the solutions I have found while googling involve naming all the movies or some such and I was wondering if there was a more elegant solution.

I hope this makes sense! Any help much appreciated.

kitty

Preloaders And LoadMovie()
I'm writing a flash preview app that takes in dynamic variables passed to it via ASPX. From those variables it loads up a particular image. It loads up fine and variables work great, but my problem lies with the load time of these images (it's loading them using loadMovie).

This is the code: loadMovie("basic_customize_options/34slv_hgreynavy_type2.jpg", "container");

it loads fine...but I really want to have a percentage loaded for when it loads the images, instead of white space. Since the entire .swf is all code (one frame of actionscript), I'm not sure how to do a preloader for the images it loads. Has anyone had to deal with this type of issue. Would anyone have a .fla that I could use as a guide? Any information is appreciated. Thanks

Cran56

Preloaders With LoadMovie()
good day,
so heres the probs:
i have a main movie with a container movie clip entitled CONTENTS.
i am loading .swfs into this container (contents).
i have the preloader for my main movie, but i need it for my other movies.
the code for my main movie

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.gotoAndStop(3);
}

THANKS to you guys for this code!!!!!!!!

then on my individual swfs i have

bytes_loaded = Math.round(_root.contents.getBytesLoaded());
bytes_total = Math.round(_root.contents.getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total;
_root.contents.loadBar2._width = getPercent*100;
_root.contents.loadText2 = Math.round(getPercent*100)+"%";
if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total) {
_root.contents.gotoAndStop(3);
}

just ADDED CONTENTS after the _root to indicate to the program to check the bytes for the contents movie. Seemed logical to me HOWEVER, success is yet to be had

am i missing something that is keeping the preloaders from loading for the individual swfs??

cheers
P
PS i have a big thank you to Kirupa and all the moderators who have helped me out in the past and in the future on my new site....just wanna say YOU ROCK THE FREE WORLD

Loadmovie Preloaders
How can I make a preloader that shows percentage/bar for a movie loaded in with LoadMovie?

I've tried using a normal preloader (the one from Kirupa) in the "to load" movie, but it doesn't work.

Is there a way to have the preloader assess how big the movie to load is, how a bar etc. and have the movie hidden until 100% is loaded (as seen on the bar)?

Thanks

--iMat

[F8] Multiple Preloaders For Scenes, Or Do I Need To Link Movies?
I have my site all in flash and it uses a preloader. Well, I want to add some large picture galleries, still inside flash, but I want them to preload separately and not during the main preload at the start. Can I just remove certain scenes from the original preload, or do I need to make the galleries completely separate and link them somehow? If they're separate, do you need wait for the rest to load again if you click a link that takes you back?

LoadMovie Preloaders & Hierarchy
greetings-

i'm trying to convert my MMCD to be accessible on the web. most importantly to have the photos load individually. i'm kinda new to this thing and i'm not exactly sure how i need to go about that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. the project is here
if anyone would like to take a look at the swf i can make it available.

thanks in advance,
_greg

LoadMovie & .swf Percentage Preloaders
Hello all,
I am using Flash MX 1.1, and I have 6 SWF files, which I am inserting into my main timeline (base.swf), using loadMovie.

Each SWF file has a percentage preloader. It is exactly the same as the one on the 'base.swf' file, and I know it works when I load the base swf file, and even when I load the individual SWF files into the browser on their own.
But when the SWF files are loading into the 'base.swf' file, the percentage value sticks on 100%, until the movie has loaded. It does not give any indication of how long it will take.

Can anyone help?

[F8] Problem With Preloaders In Loadmovie
Hi I’ve just loaded my flash site for the first time and am having a few problems, the biggest is the preloaders in parts of the site don’t work, however the one that loads the main website swf is working fine, my site is at:

stuarthamiltonportfolio.co.uk

Go to illustration > Graphic Design > Advertisements

You'll see loading flash up for an instant and then a few moments later the slideshow will appear. The slide show is a separate swf file and i used the simple loadmovie command to load it into the main portfolio swf. Does anyone know why it doesn’t show its loading? I'd really appreciate any help, thanks.

LoadMovie And Preloaders Being Difficult
first of all, here is the source for the whole site http://www.jacksrambles.com/website
Just download that whole structure otherwise it won't work.

Oh, heres what i need done.
I've got a preloader set up that watches a empty movie clip called holder_mc. Whenever an externally loaded .swf file is loaded into this blank movie clip the preloader starts. The problem is that it only preloads this movie clip once! I want it to preload it every time.
I also want to add a preloader, so that when the contact button is pressed contact.swf gets preloaded, instead of a momentary blank.
Download the .fla so that you know what i'm talking about
Also, i want my main.swf preloader to fade out like the holder_mc preloader.
Cheers, JacoX

LoadMovie Clip Preloaders Not Working
Ok..here's my little problem.
I have a main movie...
In a portfolio section I have several buttons that execute a loadMovie("moviename.swf", _level0/load_into)

Each of the SWFs that the buttons load have a preloader scene, which works fine when I test them alone.
But when testing from within the main movie they aren't working.

I'm testing streaming at 56k and the sub-movies load instantly only briefly showing the preloader.

What am I doing wrong?

The preloader is as follows:

if(_root.getBytesLoaded() != _root.getBytesTotal()){
gotoAndPlay(1);
}

Please help me out, the main movie has the same preloader which works fine. I'd like it to work for the sub-movies also since they aren't so tiny that they load instantly on 56k.

To see the site in action, http://www.httpdesigns.com,
and go to the portfolio section.

Preloaders That Load LoadMovie Swfs Also
I have an fla that i'm working on that contains 4 swfs that are loaded via the loadMovie code contained in 4 empty movie clips. my question is: what code do you use to create a preloader that loads the external swfs also? if you could give me some code or direct me to a tutorial or some resource--it would be very much appreciated.

If you need any clarification just ask

Thanks,

Lex

PS--hello FlashKit!!!! I'm Lex and i'm new to the boards.