Flash :: Why Does My Preloader Screw W/ My Movie?

Emulate A Screw Driver + Screw
For a simple game I am making, I was wondering if any of you can help me make some sort of a screw emulation.

There's a base screw-head and once the screwdriver is at hand, while pressing the left mouse button, the user must make circular motions around the screw head a couple times to screw open the screw. Is this possible?

I have tried several small pseudo codes, but to no avail.

I tried using a pseudo drag and drop combined with the _rotation methods, but my actual code fails.

I tried following this code:

Detect left mouse click.
If (clicked near the screw) ->

Get the original mouse locations _xmouse & _ymouse
drag the invisible MC

Can someone lead me?
thanks

LoadMovie Screw Up
Using FLASH 5
Here's what's happenning
I made 2 flash movies: One of them is a master movie the other one loads on a buttonclick into a mastermovie.
I'm loading the 2nd movie into a target not onto a level since I want some of the attributes of the mastermovie to be displayed after the 2nd movie is loaded. Understandably I made a small empty clip put it on the stage and gave its instance a name say... "loadedmovie"
After that I assigned the appropriate button the following action.

on (release) {
loadMovie ("hr_cny.swf", "loadedmovie");
}

And what happens is the movie that's loading starts playing but for some reason gets stuck on a "loading..." message and doesn't even display a percentage and never loads. But outside the master movie it works just fine and dandy! However I tried placing it on _level1 and then it works fine, like it's supposed to. But then I don't see some of the elements of my master movie.
If you know the answer or happen to see what exactly I'm screwing up here let me know. Any help is sincerely appreciated.

Unidentified Screw-up?
I had just finished a two hour project, and decided to organize the code a little better for future editing. Usually I take longer with things, so I save lots and lots of backups. However, this time I didn't. I changed some things around in this code here:

Code:
_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
Sections = [[[70, 54]]];
attachMovie("clip", 0);
a = Math.atan2(_xmouse-clip._x, _ymouse-clip._y);
clip._x += Math.sin(a);
clip._y += Math.cos(a);
}
then I hit Ctrl+S

Now the shapes that are supposed to appear no longer do! I can't see anything wrong with this, and I can't get my old file back >_<! Can anyone out there help me?

Edit: Words were not needed

Example Of Turning Screw.
I am looking for an example of a bolt or screw turning and moving forward / inward. You see these once in a while on some machine type interfaces.

Thank you,

Dynamic Text Screw Up
ok
I'm creating an interactive flash file that simply adds up number entered by a user.
1) I use an input field (select the number option thing).

2) Then I use two dynamic fields...
a) one shows the number just entered by the user (that works fine) and
b) the second to show the sum of the numbers added so far ....PROBLEM

All it does is append the new number to a string, this mean that flash sees this as text and not number...thus I can't add. Plus when I create a variable to do the addition, all it does is append the text too!!!

Please help
Cherrypie

Pixle Font Screw-up
Alrighty, I am using pixel fonts in my new Flash site. For the most part I am having no troubles, but in 1 particular area I cannot get the results I need.

I have a grapic with a pixel font in it, I lined it up perfectly to the pixel, then I load these graphics into a larger graphic (MovieClip), I lined them all up to the pixel inside the MovieClip, then I have this MovieClip load into a ScrollPane. Here's the problem, when I publish the site for viewing the font is blurry. I have no idea what I could be missing here.

Major Dreamweaver Screw-up?
Seems that when doing find & replace by tag, "name" isn't on the list of attributes for the embed tag.

Flash Mx 2004 Screw Up
Okay, I was doing everything normal, and publishing my movie to see it. Then suddenly, it takes ten times longer to load then stops and says there's inadequate memory. I didn't do anything... except delete a publish profile i was previously using. I'm very confused.

Flash Screw Up Image
Hi,
I have a lot of problem with my images in flash.
I put an image in a movie clip, the image looks fine.
As soon as I run the project (ctrl-Enter) the image is clipped or cropped.

I have 3 columns of movie clips that contains 1 image each. The first 2 columns are ok but the third one all the image are changed.
If I move my third column, the image is changing depending on the position.

Please Help !!!!

Major Flash Screw-up
I am a total Flash newbie, and I have made a big mess ... I was trying to modify a Flash file, but was hitting a brick wall, so I tried to restore the old .swf file to the web site I was working on -- but now the old file doesn't work!

I am just getting a blank screen, whether I view it in the browser or just open it with Flash on my local machine. All I did was take the old file and copy it somewhere, then I copied the copy back to the original location to restore it. (Same filename and everything.) But it won't work ... help ?!

Will The Eolas Lawsuit Screw With Flash Ads?
I just thought about this...and I could be way off...but if your site has no elements of flash but serves flash advertisements...will your site get the little pop up? I assume it will since it's flash...and it's on your site...and can the javascript work-around work for those ads?

Creative Ways To Screw Up Text Boxes
Has anyone ever seen
a programmatically
generated text box that
has the correct width most
of the way down but then
'loses' the right margin and keeps going right off of the stage? It looks the way I made this post. What is going wrong? It is HTML read in from XML files and the movie is all AS 1 with no author-time content, if that helps.

Linux<>windows Mic Screw Up(sample Rate?)
i use the default videoconferance demo from adobe. When i try to talk from a linux to a windows machine the audio is played faster and sounds very high tone. when i talk from the windows to a linux machine i get a slowed down and very low tone. Everyting works fine when i talk from a windows to a windows machine o linux to linux. I tried all the sample rate options in publish setting and nothing works

Edited: 05/01/2007 at 07:58:49 AM by ikkkeeeee

Loading Movie With Preloader In Movie With Preloader - Problem
I have problem this problem:

I have main MC (SWF) with preloader.
I load in this MC another MC1(SWF) and this MC1 have preloader too.
During preloading blinks the main MC and MC1 => nothing is loaded.

If i remove from MC1 preloader all works without problem, but i must use preloader for MC1 too.

How can i solve it?

I think the problem is, that i use the same code for both MCs and preloader goes in some loop.

I use this preloader:

Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.preloader.bar._xscale = siteLoaded;
siteLoaded = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100);
// bytes
total_bytes = _root.getBytesTotal();
loaded_bytes = _root.getBytesLoaded();
remaining_bytes = total_bytes-loaded_bytes;
// frames
frame_loaded = _root._framesloaded;
frame_total = _root._totalframes;
// kilo bytes
totalkb = int(total_bytes/1024) add "KB";
loadedkb = int(loaded_bytes/1024) add "KB";
remaining_kb = int(remaining_bytes/1024);
remainingkb = int(remaining_kb) add "KB";
percent_done = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100) add "%";
// time
time = getTimer()/1000;
// speed
speed = loaded_bytes/time;
bits = speed/1024;
Kbps = Math.round(bits*10)/10 add "KB/S";
// time remaining
kbyteCounter = (total_bytes-loaded_bytes)/1024;
loadRate = (loaded_bytes/1024)/time;
timeCounter = kbyteCounter/loadRate;
minutes = Math.floor(timeCounter/60);
seconds = Math.round((timeCounter/60-minutes)*60);
time_remaining = minutes+" min "+seconds+" sec";
// timeelapsed
minute = Math.floor(time/60);
second = Math.round((time/60-minute)*60);
time_elapsed = minute+" min "+second+" sec";
if (total_bytes == loaded_bytes)
{
_root.gotoAndStop (2);
}
}
How should i set preloader for MC1, which is inside of main movie MC?
I load MC1 (extertal SWF) in empty MC2 in _leve0 of main movie MC.

Thanks Jan

Select Doesn't Select. What Did I Screw Up?
I'm learning Flash from a book called "Essentials For Design:
Macromedia Flash 8"

THE SHORT STORY
Using the select tool, when I double-click an object to select it, it
doesn't. What happens is that it produces a light-blue square outline
surrounding the edge of the object and then "expands" or "explodes"
the outline to the limits of the stage. The object is not selected
yet.

If I double-click again, it selects the object but it doesn't behave
as it should.

What is this blue outline and why isn't it selecting the object like
it's supposed to...on the first double-click?

THE LONG STORY
In the intro to objects it has you draw a square and a circle. You
double-click the circle and move it onto part of the square.
Deselect, then select the circle again. Move it off the square and it
takes the intersection away from the square. Fine and dandy.

I did a few more exercises, none of which seemed to modify any
preferences, and now when I try the same operation on the circle /
square, it doesn't work.

What's different is when I double-click to select an object, rather
than selecting it, it draws this light-blue line that bounds the outer
dimension of the object and "expands" this square outline outward.

If I double-click AGAIN it selects the object but doing the same
procedure of moving it has no effect on the shape of the square. The
circle doesn't take a chunk out of the square.

I hope this makes sense.
Help! How can I get FLASH working like I think it's supposed to?

thanks
- peq

Large Movie Preloader /External Preloader Question...
I have a fairly large movie (about 380KB) with a status bar preloader in the first frame. The problem is that I load a few of the MC's in the movie into ScrollPanes and then don't work unless I export them on the first frame (these MCs make up about 200KB). Therefore, there is no flash shown until it has loaded up about half way.

I tried to use an External Preloader, but that loaded the MC on level 1, and no buttons or functions within the entire movie worked properly.

My question is, is there a way to either use the external preloader and swap (or reload) the movie on level 0, or does anyone know a way to load the MCs on another frame other than 1, but before they load to the Scroll Pane? Any other ideas would also be appreciated.

Thanks!

Preloader For Another Movie In Current Preloader
say i have a preloader, for the first movie. in the first movie, at the end of the movie, i put up an action script in which it will load another movie call second movie

see, if the first movie got 30 frames, and at frame 30 the second movie is loaded (loadMovie method), the preloader is utterly useless cause users still need to wait at frame 30 of first movie for second movie to load.

so what i'm trying to ask here is can first movie preloader check or make second movie load then show it at frame 30.

to make things clearer, heres my source code for preloader

ifFrameLoaded ("main", 30) {
gotoAndPlay ("main", 1);
}

well looks simple, but doesnt check and see if the second movie is loaded onto frame 30

any help?

Scene Preloader Vs Movie Preloader
hi

I have a movie with about six scenes. Each scene begins with a simple preloader...

if (_root.getBytesLoaded()>=_root.getBytesTotal()) {
gotoAndPlay(4);
}

The trouble is that I think that this script only works on the first scene because it is loading the whole movie rather than just the scene to which it belongs.

does anyone know how i alter the script so that it only gets the BytesLoaded and BytesTotal of the current scene rather than the whole movie?

thanks very much for your time.

Load Movie In Empty Movie Clip...Display Preloader In Another
I have two empty movie clips. One that will hold the current menu and the other will display the preloader/current page. How can I get the page that is being loaded to send the preloader information to the other movie clip? I've made simple preloaders, but this is a little more complicated. This is the only thing left to really solve on my web page, I would appreciate any help.

Possible To Add Preloader To Movie Using Shared Lib Items Without Nesting Movie?
My problem is this. I have designed a movie which makes extensive use of exportable library items to build menus etc. using the attachMovie() method. The movie itself is only about 120Kb with 100Kb made up of exportable symbols.

Using a conventional progress-bar preloader, the graphic appears late in the load owing to the priority loading of the shared library items whereas I want it there from the start.

I've looked at a number of solutions/tutes which use a stub preloader movie (which loads movies with shared libraries into a target clip within the stub) to overcome this. Problem is, my main movie makes substantial use of _root relative targeting and I'd really like to avoid having to retarget everything to something like '_root.containerClip.[instance/property]'.

Is there a way I can keep my main movie largely as is? Can I re-use the same preloader on additional clips I'd like to load into my main movie?

n.b: the main tute I was looking at was Colin Moock's preloader manager v1.01 from http://www.moock.org

Really appreciate anyone's help with this.

Matt

Loading A Movie Inside A Movie W/preloader?
I just came from a website where after the movie was loaded and your in the main interface. . as you click on buttons to view certain things, smaller movies appear with their own preloaders which then load and you can view. . .(example: http://members.tripod.com/betathree/ )

I want to create a similar effect in my masterpeice to optimize the bulk of the movie.

Can I get a lending hand from the gurus of the board?

Thanks alot
[Edited by Apollo Becate on 07-10-2002 at 09:00 PM]

Preloader Movie Loading Real Movie
Because of components in my movie I cannot make real preloader in it, so I am trying to make a movie which would load real movie.
I have some troubles doing that..

i tried putting this in first frame of preloader movie (which has 20 or so frames)

target.loadMovie("home.swf");
target.stop(); ->here i was trying to achieve that target movie stops so it doesnt play over preloader but obviously i am doing something very wrong

now I am trying to make a simple preloader it would show xx% of xx KB loaded (i know how o make that, i tried to adapt preloader from normal movie) but it just doesnt work

later i tried with this load check:

if (target.getBytesLoaded() == target.getBytesTotal()) {
gotoAndPlay (21);
} else {
___gotoAndPlay (19);
}

but i dont think it works either

please help how do i control that movie which is loading?

Preloader Of Movie Going Blank When Movie Is Loaded
(Sorry for repeating this question but I'm still struggling with it)

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

Preloader Trouble - Loading A Movie Within A Movie
Hello,

The page I am working on is
http://www.prestigeinteractive.com/mcgibbys2/tips.html

What I have done is constructed a preloader that works on the first movie, however, when I select the link to open the second movie, the preloader refreshes my screen. The link works until I simulate the download, then the refreshing process occurs.

I've included a link to download the files in zip format. I would find it far too difficult to explain what I've done thus far.

http://www.prestigeinteractive.com/m...le/trouble.zip

I believe the trouble lies within the last line of my movie's code (swing1).

Take a look, I'm sure you could figure it out in a matter of minutes.

Later and Thanks in advance,

Greg
ps. you can email the files directly at gwhite@prestigeinteractive.com

pss. I would love to know what you did, if you don't mind writing me a note or two.

Complicated Preloader Problem (movie Within A Movie)
I am using Flash 8 with AS 2.0
I have a 2 scene movie
scene 1 is preloader
scene 2 is main movie

scene 2 has a MC on the mains stage in frame 1. This MC loads another .swf in frame 40 using hte loadmovie command

I want my preloader to determine when the loadmovie mc in sceen 2 is loaded or perhaps just load it in scene 1 but into the MC that holds it in sceen 2.

I can't figure out how to reference the MC that holds my loaded movie in sceen 2 from scene 1 or how to detect when the loadmovie in frame 40 of my MC is loaded.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Peace,
Rickard

Preloader For A Movie Inside A Big Movie
hey,

i used to have a really big intro, but then i broke it down to 4 smallers one's and had them load into my main movie using the loadMovie ("1.swf", 1); code. And i have a preloader at the begining of the movie, but i think that preloader only loads the fist small movie. How can i load my second movie while my first one is playing, i don't need a %preloader i guess.

Movie With Preloader Inside The Movie?
I'm building a website based in flash movie and it's only small website. I have created a separate movie file of photos (a bit like slideshow) with preloader in it (it is working when tested) and imported it into website but the problem is when i click button in website to run photo movie, only loading logo came flashing constantly and nothing comes on afterward so i know i'm doing something wrong.

What has caused this problem and how can i sort it out?

Thanks

Preloader For Another Movie?
Can I have a preloader in movie 1 that prevents movie 1 from continuing until movie 2 is fully loaded (from a loadMovie action)?

Movie Preloader
I'm having a hard time finding a good how-to, or just a nice .fla that demonstrates how to lood an swf. I've made kind of a big project, and I don't have the time to change all "linkings" by inserting a couple of frames in the beginning of my movie.

Any good ideas anyone?

Is It My Preloader Or My Movie?
ok, I have created my flash site, and used the tutorial from http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...12/index.shtml to make my preloader.

Now when it works fine offline, but as soon as I view it online, the loader gets to 99% and freezes, whilst the loading bar on the actual browser has only loaded about 1 quarter of the way. The movie itself is only about 120KB, but it does feature extrenal SWF's for each section within it.

I would be really greatful if any one can offer any help or advice on this.

thanks,

Movie Preloader
Everytime I use the LoadMovie command, it automatically shows up what I just loaded.

Is there a way to delay when a movie shows up after loading it w/ the LoadMovie command?

Ideally, what I'd like to do is have a screen for a user filling out options. As the user is working, I'd like to use the LoadMovie command. When the user clicks the submit button, the new Movie loaded would then show up. This way a user wouldn't have to wait from the start to load in a whole movie after they click a button.

Preloader Movie
can some one please put a preload code up that uses bytesloaded etc...? Im using a mac and every example movie I dl it doesnt work. any help would be much appreciated,

J

Add A Preloader To A Movie
This may be a dumb question but how do i add my preloader to a movie?

Movie In Preloader
Is there any way that I can play an external .swf during the preloader? My preloader looks like this:
1st frame:
_root.loading.loadMovie("loading.swf");
totalBytes = Math.round(getBytesTotal() / 1024);
loadedBytes = Math.round(getBytesLoaded() / 1024);
percentDone = Math.round((loadedBytes / totalBytes) * 100);
if (_root._framesloaded >= _root._totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay(3);
}

2nd frame:
gotoAndPlay(1);

All I simply want is for a movie to loop while the preloader is doing it's thing, is this possible? Thanks

The Preloader Scr*wed My Movie
Hi. I had my swf intro in a dreamweaver document. It worked perfect.
Then i modified my fla file to generate a new swf... this time it had a preloader.
I replaced it for the old one and when i tryed the movie, it just stayed blank.
So i changed the preloader for another one. A new tutorial. But it happens the same thing. If i put the old swf (with no preloader) it works well again.

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After Preloader, Then Movie?
Hi!

I was wondering if some of u could help me with "the movie after the preloader with a play button"!

Well... i've made the Preloader, tested it out! But the only thing i can make it load is a picture! Well... that i want is;

- A play button which comes in sight when the preloader is finish with loading a movie or something!

- And when u press on the play button, the movie starts!

I really cant figure how i do that!

So please help me!

How To Use A Movie As A Preloader
Hey all ! just a quick question about preloding a movie. I have my preloader on two frames using get.bytes. Instead of using a boring x corodinate for a loading bar I want to use a movie clip. Lets say for example a glass of water filling up, and its 100 frames. Is there a way to have the bytes loaded equal the point at which the movie is at. So if its at 30% the movie will be at the 30th frame ? Hope you guys can help, thanks !!

Sharpedge

Preloader For Movie Within Mc
hi I would like to know how can I make a preloader for a swf,I want that swf loads into a blank mc that is inside of a mc how can I do that.

thanks in advance

Preloader Within Movie
please delete this as i dont know how

sorted the problem :]

Movie And Preloader
The question goes something like this .

An ultra simple preloader without a graphical interface or even a getBytesTotal looks something like this.

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

What i'm trying to do is to load a movie into an empty movie clip let's call it Preloader (since that's what it is) and that it plays the preloader completely then only the frames 40-70 of the preloader (I don't know if it can be done but).

Then after the movie is completely loaded it continues to play frame 2 and on.

Is there a simple way of doing this?

[F8] Movie In Preloader
Hi!
Could anyone help me how could roll movie at the begining of flash site.
Like, when someone finds my site(exp.: google), and clicks it should first play movie, which is long about 30 sec, and then load the flash site, i have used Gravity template from flash village, but i just dont know how to first run the movie clip, and then when the movie is over it should load index swf, or i put it index.swf . I would be very thankfull for your help

In Movie Preloader
Not sure if this is the right forum to post in, but;

I'm having trouble figureing out how to make a preloader within a movie. What i'm wanting is for a pre loader that pre loads images before they are displayed.. so i can save the user from waiting from the whole lot to load once the click onto the site..

here is an example of what i'm after : http://www.igloo.com.au

if anyone could point me in the right direction i'd be much apreactive.. i'm still a novice with actionscripting but learning quickly

thank you all

Preloader For CD Movie?
I have made preloaders for the web and they work fine but will NOT work on a CD. I have two rather large movies on CD and access them through a menu.exe on the CD. When I click the menu, the screen goes black while the movie loads...(preloader and movie)...then after about 10 seconds, I see the preloader for about a quarter of a second and into the movie. It apprently wants to load both scenes at once. There MUST be a way to let people know a movie is loading.

IonaMick

Movie Pop Up With Preloader
So I have a quicktime movie (.mov) loading into a java pop up window attached to a button and I want to add a preloader bar. I already made a percentage preloader but the movie does not have it's own page so right now the preloader (in it's own scene) actually plays as the whole website loads.
Here is the java for the pop up window:

on (release) {
// customize the window that gets opened
// 0 equals NO.
// 1 equals YES.
address = "reel2004_low.mov";
target_winName = "reel";
width = 360;
height = 243;
toolbar = 0;
location = 0;
directories = 0;
status = 0;
menubar = 0;
scrollbars = 1;
resizable = 0;
// sends data back to the function
openWinCentre(address, target_winName, width, height, toolbar, location, directories, status, menubar, scrollbars, resizable);
}

Could someone help me add the preloader to this window to let the viewer know something is happening because my movie takes about 3 minutes to load, which is another problem on it's own. If anyone has a suggestion for having the movie start loading right as the website is opened so that it's ready by the time they click to view it that would be awesome.
thanks so much
A

Preloader With .swf Movie
So i finally made a preloader with a flash movie but that actual preloader bar doesnt fill up while the percentage is going up. it just stays there like an image. And once the percentage is up to 100% it doesnt play the movie.

heres the .fla file if anyone know what im talking about: http://www.sendspace.com/file/cc375y

thanks very much if anyone replies

bump: please help someone!

Edited: 08/09/2007 at 01:21:07 PM by Ahmed_7

Using 2.0 Preloader For 3.0 Movie?
Hi,
I want to use a preloader that was created in Actionscript 2.0 (because I couldn't figure out how to do it in 3.0) - but the splash page and website are in 3.0. Is there a way to segue from the preloader to the splash page? The preloader uses Actionscript to call Scene 2, but I would like it to call an external .swf file if possible. Can anyone tell me how I could do this? -- Or a better way, that does not involve redoing the loader ;)
Thanks so much!!