Whats wrong with this?

[natedawg007]

Would their be any other reason for my preloader to not show up until13% has been loaded other than linkage?

I have checked my library 4 times and nothing is linked.

In my movie I have:

Dynamic text.
External swf files that loadin the BG while the main movie is playing.
My main Movie is 175kb.
I have lots of code in some areas, 90 lines is the most in one MC.
Preloading section should only read about 4kb for some reason it is reading 16kb.

I hope this is enough information for someone to help!

Thanks in advanced!
Nate -

[dpvtank]

hmmm.....not sure if linkage has anything to do with preloaders..
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Actionscripting/Creating-Programm-689/index.shtml
go there....a tute might help.

[THOR]

i have the same issues with my preloaders, but my guess would be, that a preloader is part of the movie, yes? and you are loading that movie? so even if the preloader is first in said movie, it still has to load before it can check sizes and progression. which would start the actual percentage later than just 0

but i could be wrong

[Billy T]

are you embedding the font for your dynamic text box?

[natedawg007]

are you embedding the font for your dynamic text box?
Yes, if that's the problem it will be an easy fix. Infact now that you mentioned it that is the problem. I would loose my head if it wasn't attached. :)
hmmm.....not sure if linkage has anything to do with preloaders..
If the linkage properties for the UI Components in Flash MX are checked off to "Export in first frame", the Bandwidth Profiler will have an increase of kb in the first frame. Before this problem, I was getting a 32kb spike in my BP, for what should only be 4kb and my preloader wouldn't show up until 40% was loaded.
Someone mentioned Linkage, when I changed the linkage the first frame droped to about 16kb. I was still baffled bc the first frame should only be 4kb so I came here for other ideas.