my movie loader gets to 100% and then waits for ages before

[benbacardi]

my movie loader gets to 100% and then waits for ages before moving on and playing the movie... why?!

[Webforumz Staff]

Can you upload the FLA so we can have a look?

[benbacardi]

ok.... its a bit a rough though lol...

fla: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/cardy/loadingintrotest.fla
html: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/cardy/loadingintrotest.html

thanks

[Webforumz Staff]

Ok, the problem was that you were expecting flash to stop on a frame but still execute the code on it. That doesn't happen.
You don't have to make a loop in your code in order to make a preloader, you have to make a loop in your animation. So that flash can go back to the same frame over and over again in order to check if loading has completed.

I figured out a good way of doing what you wanted. I took the loading "star" and put it into a movieclip, where each frame has an additional arm of the star. Then I wrote a simple script to take the percentage and direct the movieclip to the appropriate frame.

Have a look:
http://www.digital-end.com/webforumz...gintrotest.fla

[courtjester]

dangit.. I wish that I could view yall's fla's.

[benbacardi]

get MX