how can I?

scrowler · November 13th, 2004, 04:53 PM

how can i let the user see my site after he saw my flash preloader without typing in the bottom skip intro or something, i want him to go to the site after the preloader finished loading.
Is there a trick to it or a code?

harpua · November 13th, 2004, 05:09 PM

did you use one of my preloaders? If so which one? There should be line of code in there that says
gotoAndPlay(FrameNumber) or whereever you want it to go.

Mike

scrowler · November 13th, 2004, 05:15 PM

No, approximetly all of them dont wrk, i tried, which one exactly do u want me to use?
Plus how can i change the size of the preloader.

Regards

harpua · November 13th, 2004, 05:42 PM

Can you tell me what you are using? What is happening? can you post some code and some error messages? I know for a fact the ones at
http://www.eclecticpixel.com/scripts work, I use them all the time for my generic preloaders.

Peace
Mike

scrowler · November 13th, 2004, 07:32 PM

i just tried the preloader and it wrks, but now answer my question, and the speed is too fast, how can i slow it down a bit.

harpua · November 14th, 2004, 02:04 AM

You could find a slower computer?????? . What do you mean slow it down?? I don't want to sound mean, but when you ask questions please give as much detail on what you want as possible. Doesn't work and slow it down, just do not tell us anything.

scrowler · November 14th, 2004, 05:30 AM

it loades very fast wen i upload it on the browser, i want it to load abitt slower.

harpua · November 14th, 2004, 03:05 PM

All a preloader does is let the user know that the flash movie is loading and how much is left to load. There is know way to slow it down it is the rate that the movie is being loaded. If you are loading it locally it will read alot faster than say somebody online with a modem. Plus how big is your movie file, once you get alot of frames it will slow down.

Peace
Mike

scrowler · November 14th, 2004, 03:48 PM

u dont get me, i mean wen a person opens my site, not a movie file, my site, i want a preloader to appear and wen the percentages finish loading i want it to straightly go to my main page.

Ben Horne · November 15th, 2004, 08:57 PM

An easier way to develop a preloader for your Flash movie would be to do it this way:

On the first frame of your first scene, have your Actionscript code like this:

Code:

total = _root.getBytesTotal();
loaded = _root.getBytesLoaded();
percentLoaded = (loaded/total)*100;
textPercent.text = int(percentLoaded) + "% loaded";
if (percentLoaded>=100) {
    gotoAndPlay("Slideshow",1);
}

On the second frame, you need to have this bit of code:

Code:

this.gotoAndPlay(1);

I use this code all the time for my Flash movies and I will tell you that this is the easiest way there is. The textPercent.text bit is just used to display the percent loaded. Keep in mind that you need to have a dynamic text field named textPercent.

Ben Horne
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