Flash, Loading Screen

They have: 45 posts

Joined: Feb 2002

Okay, I've got not much knowledge when it comes to flah besides the fact I can draw pretty good in it.

I need to know how to make the loading screens that some flash movies have built in.

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The only way I know how to do this is to place all your stuff (images, symbols etc.) onto a frame, then use the isFrameLoaded() action earlier in the timeline to test if that frame is loaded. Keep looping your animation until that command returns true. Note that you should make sure that the playhead never gets to the test frame to see all your stuff!

Are there any other methods of doing this out there?

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Joined: Feb 2001

Here's a couple of tutorials I found by doing a search:

http://www.acky.net/tutorials/flash/preloader
http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash
http://www.ollaz.com/flash/preloader.html
http://flashplanet.com/body_tutorials.html
http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/flashtutsmisc
http://www.designsbymark.com/flashtut/perpreloader.shtml

I haven't checked them all out but one of them is where I learned how to do it - can't remeber which one!

Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....

They have: 157 posts

Joined: Mar 2002

Here's another good place for Flash tutorials. He also has the percentage pre-loader too. Its illustrated and everything. Really nice.

designsbymark.com

Opps, I didn't read the post before mine completely. So you see, this must be a good site, huh?

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Joined: Feb 2002

Okay, thanks, I'll take a look at them!

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