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Is It Possible To Have A Seperate Preloader.swf To Load Another .swf ?
is it possible to have a seperate preloader.swf to load another .swf ? so instead of having a preloader within the same .swf can it be in a seperate .swf??

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i currently have one .swf, with 2 scenes.
this is the code in the first scene:

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gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", "1");
}
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can i just have a seperate .swf and have it
preload the next .swf,
instead of having one movie with 2 scenes?

the issue is that the preloader scene will not
visually show up on the screen. i'd imagine
an entire movie would definitely show, while preloading.

please help.

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Well, I'm back to the ever agonizing preloader. I've finally finished the rest of my site, and now I'm trying to make it spiffy as it loads.

Now, normally I'd use the same one I normally use, and just modify it for this particular site. However, the site that I'm using now HAS to use the first frame of my timeline, so I can't put the loader there. Is there any other way to integrate a nice looking preloader?

Thanks,
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i was thinking of using three MCs - PhotoMC, TempPhotoMC, and LoaderProgressMC. Each photo is viewed in PhotoMC. When a link is clicked to load in another image, its loaded to TempPhotoMC, which is _visible = false. LoaderProgressMC would be created on the fly with a loadbar in it referencing the LoadBytes of TempPhotoMC, prob using _width linked to to the percent loaded ratio. When TempPhotoMC is loaded, PhotoMC is loaded with the same photo from TempPhotoMC which is now in the computer memory.

I can get the normal slideshows working (with the help from the fantastic tutes and people on this site!!!) but i don't know really how to approach this problem. Any suggestions or pointers would be great!! Thanks, Alex

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My site is about 2mb long, I don't know much about preloaders yet, but I have read many topics on the subject. But maybe I missed something along the way.

Should I create a seperate .fla for my preloader and load it in frame one of my movie intro? And if so, how will I know when the movie is loaded? I am 95% complete with my project and just want to get it right.

I will search more for tutorials, but any input will be welcome as always.

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Is it possible to create a preloader that is a completely seperate swf that... plays/stretches bar/shows percentage/etc.... while it loads the main movie and it's child MCs -- and, when completed loading, simply says "play" the main movie?

Can anyone help -- or point me in the right direction here?

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Hey, I'm new to the forum boards. I am having this small problem with the preloader to the movie I'm making. Basically the preloader, waits until the intro to the site is ready to load, and then it plays it. No big deal. The thing is that, In the first frame of the intro, it is supposed to load another swf (which plays a music file all the way to frame 1834), but what ends up happening is the intro starts playing, but the music only fully loads half way into it... Maybe I need to put the music directly into the movie? The thing is that I have a button that I use to either call the music.swf or stop all sounds...

Check it out here: http://bounce.cached.hyspex.com

And here is how it is setup. Basically, what I want to know is how do you check if a frame is loaded in another movie (music.swf). If you could help out, that would be much appreciated. Thanks.

One solution I've thought of is maybe I should load the music.swf immediately when the site starts up, and then call it into the Intro once the movie starts up. But how do I do this with code?

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2. Is there a way in MX to do a full frame rat conversion. For instance if I have a CD version of a movie that runs at 24 fps, could I change it for the web to run at 12 fps without making it play at 1/2 speed?

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Is it possible to have a seperate 200x50 SWF act as a stand-alone preloader which loads all of your external SWF's? Then once they have all been loaded, it then proceeds to play a designated SWF. Which in this case would be my main SWF.

Any ideas? It doesn't have to be fancy. Just a basic preloader with a bar and text loading all of your external SWFs. Once they've all been loaded it proceeds to play the main SWF or whichever SWF you want.

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hi guys! i was having a problem today that i just couldn't figure out and when coming to flashkit.com it said tht the last time i logged in was in 2003!!! wow!
well all u guys in the form never fail me yet. here's my deal.

i am loading 5 movieclips onto the stage layers using a frame action.

now i made each movieclip to have it's own little getBytes loader (u know)

but i don't want 5 different preloaders to be showing. i just want 1 preloader that show the viewer tht the whole movie is being loaded.

so i don't want it that one movie loads and whenever the viewer is ready to goahead that the other isn't ready, i want them all to be loaded.

i hope i explained this so so so.

thanx y'all

V

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