Preloader question-Basic

[thebloodpoolkid]

excuse my ignorance.

I have done a search for preloaders on this forum as well as went through many tutorials as well as ready a few books on flash MX.

My question is how exactly does it work?
I know the concept behind it but whenever I make a preloader it seems not to work...I supose...

when should I use a preloader ?

here is a simple site i made just out of flash alone there are many bugs in what i have created and I plan on tweeking it. I created this site my first week of learning flash so...bare with me

www.snipersgl.com/alliedsnipers.html

There is NO preloader...I am sure I would want one.

that it all on scene 1
! created scene 2 and place it in front of scene 1.
scnene two contains the contents provided in th tut on this page for preloaders.
SO I know how to make a preloader.....and I know why you want a preloader...but how do I get it to work?

If this confusing to you it is to me as well. LOL
I should be ashamed of myself after all I have done with flash and actionscript....but this is one thing that gets to me...what/how a preloader is supose to work.

[009]

i know most of the people use the preloader at the start of their movie when someone enters their site.
make three layers:
one for animation, put an actionscript at first frame"ifFrameLoaded ("soundtrack") {
gotoAndPlay ("start");
} and put another actionscript at the end" go to "preloading"

one for audio and another one for animation l
+give a name for each layer on the frame.

when you run the movie, choose show streaming

you should have no problem