Flash Site Design - Preloader placement

Author

Preloader placement

ekora

2006-02-24, 10:16 am

I have a host swf file that uses loadMovie to call in about 8 external swf
files on each seciton of my website. I wanted to show a preloader while each
swf file is loaded, but I don't know whether to put the preloader in each of
the external swf files or put one in each section of the host swf file.

Thanks for your input,
Brian

ekora

2006-02-24, 10:16 am

I got it to work within each external swf, aside from one in particular. The
one that it's not working on is one that has three semi-hefty movie clips. Is
there a way to add the percentages of each of those three movie clips, divide
by three, and output the average of all of them loading?

This is what I used for the preloader script:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
loading = _parent.getBytesLoaded();
total = _parent.getBytesTotal();
percent -= (percent-((loading/total)*100))*.25;
per = int(percent);
percentage = per+"%";
loadBar._width = per;
if (percent>99) {
_parent.gotoAndStop(3);
}
}

Thanks in advance,
Brian