Loading bars before main page is displayed.

[Toby1979]

Hi guys,

Could anyone point me in the right direction for this one...

I have seen loading bars and animations for loading before a page is displayed. ie an animation while the main animation is loading up in the background.

How do I get the animation used for the loading sequence to run for the limited time before the main one?

Does any of that make sense?

Hope ou can help.

[JustinStudios]

basically how most of these things are done is that you create a Scene that is 3-4 frames long. You then place your animation here and make the 3-4 frames loop back and forth checking on SizeLoaded/SizeOfFile and that gives you a fractional percent to use to make your bar "load". Its mostly actionscript but you can make it look good.

After that loads it jumps to the last frame of the scene again and if SizeLoaded/SizeOfFile => 1 then it will jump to your movie.

HTH

[Toby1979]

Brilliant. Thanks JustinStudios.
Do you know of any online tutorials that might help me along?

[Sgaspar11]

Here are the basics to get you started:

http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/preloader2.asp

Google for building a preloader, or preloader flash tutorials, that'll give you more than you ever wished for.

Cheers,

Scott

[Toby1979]

Thanks Scott for your help. I'll get on to that now. Cheers