preloaders That Work

[Warrior]

I told you I have another preloader to reveal a picture bit by bit and when the picture if fully revealed, the movie begins.

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    Total = Math.round(_root.getBytesTotal()/1000);
    Loaded = Math.round(_root.getBytesLoaded()/1000);
    Percent = (Total)/(Loaded) *100;
    if (Picture._currentframe<Percent) {
        Picture.play();
    } else {
        Picture.stop();
        if (Percent == 100) {
            _root.play();
        }
    }
}

All you do is put a picture inside a movie clip and mask it and animate the mask to reveal the picture to 100 frames. If people are confused I can upload a Flash file

[retrotron]

7 will most likely have a movieclip preloader API, won't that be great! Until then, keep these preloaders coming.

[jbruton]

Hey all...

I too am "stumped" by preloaders.

In my case, I'm building and XML file on the fly and the trying to preload a set of images based on that data.

In my attached files, I'm only loading two, but it shows the gist of what I'm trying to do.

I THINK the preload part is working, but I'm not sure.

Two questions:

One - why can't I get an actual number for getBytesLoaded() and/or getBytesTotal()? (I tried to output/view using getURL)

Two - why can't I resize these images after they're loaded?

Big thanks to all of you who take time out of your day to help an egghead like me...

[Motion2082]

Well we have covered a lot of Preloaders in this thread.

I still think there are more hiding out there somewhere

Hope this forum has helped all those in the Actionscript community. It would be nice to see more Actionscript threads like this one. Not only do we solve one problem but we cover every angle which saves this section of the forum from becoming overloaded with the same problems.

Obviously actionscript is a complicated language, one which takes years to master, having said that every little bit counts

[Ericinho]

found this link:

http://www.actionscripthero.com/blog...ing_images.php

scroll down the page to find a list of more preload resources throughout the web.

man, this thread deserves a sticky

[Motion2082]

@ Ericinho

OMG what an absolutely amazing link

Thank you so much for your contribution

[avelives]

this one is very simple but works when dropped at start of any movie so quite versatile.

this.onEnterFrame = function() {
    if (this.getBytesLoaded()<this.getBytesTotal()) {
        Total = this.getBytesTotal()/1000;
        Received = this.getBytesLoaded()/1000;
        percent=(Received/Total)*100;
    } else {
        _root.preload.play();
        this.onEnterFrame = null;
    }
}
stop();

obviously you would add some sort of command to utilise the percentage number, like _xscalei used it on my home page and it even preloads dynamic jpegs (dont ask me how)

[farafiro]

I didn't see Eric's link but since Flash MX, most of the time I use setInterval() for preloaders

[Motion2082]

@ farafiro

Would you be able to provide an example of your setInterval() script for your preloader?

Also if you get a spare sec look at Rric's link, it will take you about half a day to get through all the useful resources but very worthwhile if you have a spare couple of hrs

[retrotron]

Here's avelives's code modified a la setInterval():

this.preloadThis = function() {
        if (this.getBytesLoaded()<this.getBytesTotal()) {
                Total = this.getBytesTotal()/1000;
                Received = this.getBytesLoaded()/1000;
                percent=(Received/Total)*100;
        } else {
                _root.preload.play(); // can modify this to play whatever
                clearInterval(this.preloadInterval);
        }
}

this.preloadInterval = setInterval(this, "preloadThis", 100);

this.stop();