Preloading Flash?

[lynlimz]

Hi,

I've seen sites where they have flash which shows a loading status...waiting for the entire flash to load before playing? how do we do this?

thanks

[MattR]

I know in Director you can use Lingo to fetch all (or some) of the cast members to load. Also, there are some Director pre-built scripts that you can use to create the often used loading bar. Once you get the hang of Lingo, I challenge you to find a cooler way of showing the amount of content loading!

I've seen a site that uses an hourglass (one of their own, nicely done, not the hourglass cursor) and I've played around with a fractal “unfolding” as my content loads.

It's a small thing, but something that you can use to help identify your flash as cooler/more professional than others.

[lynlimz]

Is it possible to do it in Flash 5?
Thanks..but I'm a beginner in this..so I'm need some clarifications.

[Arielladog]

Hey lyn,

The best way that I can really think of doing this is to use a Flash preloader. Here's a good tutorial on how to do that.

http://www.flashplanet.com/tutorials/preloader.html
and
http://www.flashplanet.com/tutorials..._advanced.html

Good Luck,
aDog

[lynlimz]

Hye! Thanks for your Help!!!!


Thank You