Preloading a form application

[EsChEr]

Any ideas on how to preload a forms application it seems that forms work just like a movieclip on the second frame of a movie, but since it's a movieclip it can't do anything until it's completly loaded, so it's pretty useless to add a preload inside the main form "application" because that code won't run until "application" is fully loaded, so far my best guess is to make a loder movie that load my form application into a level, but this kinda sucks, any ideas?

[Jesse]

The form elements are all components right? They are probably being exported in the first frame due to their linkage settings. You should be able to edit their linkage settings to avoid this. Search these forums for issues relating to "linkage preload" or similar for exmaples.

[EsChEr]

try this out, create a form application and in the first frame of your "application" form drop a couple bmps or something like that, now ctrl+enter your movie and you'll see in your bandwidth profiler that your movie has two frames, your content is contained in "application" in the second frame and you have no control over what happens on frame 1, since forms encapsulate content just like movieclips do you can't do anything from the movieClip or form until it's completly loaded, therefore it's just not possible to preload a form based application exept loading it from another swf

[hangalot]

relative pathing is obviously at the order of the day.

[nickgs]

Has anyone had any success with this? I have a similar problem.

Thanks.

[EsChEr]

the only way is making two separate flas, that's what I ended up doing, I'm quite sure there's no other way.