Trouble with PreLoader

[Insomnia]

Hi everyone, Been having trouble implimenting a preloader into my Flash site interface http://nautilus.shore.net/~tcooney/index.html. The GUI files all sit it frame one in movie mode. I carefully went step-by-step through MM ol help http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/stream_optimize/ with no luck. I covered the simple stuff, like 'using a movie symbol' for my preload sequence and puting it on a different layer and whatnot. I did exactly everything the MM help file said, to a T.

Any ideas?

Could I be putting the preloader in the wrong mode (I tried both "edit symbols" and "edit movie"

(If you get "The page cannot be displayed", please try later, I'm still tryin to make it work) --> PeAcE

[Insomnia]

it'll be a few minutes on a modem, it's 1.11 MB,

(as soon as I get the preloader working I want to further compress some elements)

[Strok]

Easy way:
You can loop your preloader between 2 frames:

For example you have a last Scene (Scene 2) and last frame on Scene 2 is 100
--------------------------------------------
frame1
--------------------------------------------
ifFrameLoaded ("Scene 2", 100) {
gotoAndPlay (3);
}



--------------------------------------------
frame2
--------------------------------------------
gotoAndPlay (1);


--------------------------------------------
frame3
--------------------------------------------

it is a first frame of your real movie



P.S
You can put some loading MC on first 2 frames
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easy way 2:
http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/intermediate/flash5_preloaders/index.shtml

[Insomnia]

So does this mean I need the preloader in the first scene and my intended content in scene 2? Right now I just have everything in scene 1.

As soon as I re-install Flash I'll try that action, Thanks.
(It won't open my files now for some reason).

[Strok]

It does't matter
You may have everything on one scene or on 10 scenes

[Insomnia]

NYCE. thanks!

(now if I get get some MM tech help on why my Flash 5 suddenly won't open, even after registry wipe-out & re-install....)

[Insomnia]

I've tried over a half dosen examples of preoladers. I can't get any to work!

I dont know, maybe my problem is that I've got a GUI, not a movie, all the help site files I've found only deal with movies. I've only got one frame in movie mode, only one scene, (I forget how to do multiple scenes NEways). 'Thing is, my four GUI layers are one of my tweens.

I think I've got a unique project here.
Can someone just be my hero and push me a flash file that I can import into my file so I see how it works and publishes?

Just for reference, these didn't work for me in my file:

http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/intermediate/flash5_preloaders/index.shtml#

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/stream_optimize/ (under "Optimizing movies by preloading frames")
(then: "If you're using Flash 5, see Flash Tech Note 12588")

[Insomnia]

http://nautilus.shore.net/~tcooney/starbase10/pages/gui_flash.html

Launch page: Non-Flash vesions have a similar appearance
http://nautilus.shore.net/~tcooney/index.html