Preloader

[pulla90]

i have been learning flash for few weeks and i would like to put a preloader onto my page, with the same ideas as on the preloader on this site http://www.batterydrink.com/pitlanegame all the tutorials i find are about percentages and how much bytes left etc. but i cant find a tutorial that shows how to make the gfx show how much is downloaded etc. if someone has a link to a tutorial(s) where this is shown, please post here. or if you know some other way, other then the flash-way on how to do this... please helppp! cheers.

[IMCanida]

I don't have any time to write more then I need to..

I already typed this once.. but my internet decided to go down right as I pressed Submit..

Anyways I made you a little example - http://www.underworldassailants.com/TestLoader1.html


And I'll attach a file.. All you have to do is maybe tweak it a bit to work with another Mov file ( or webpage ) and Change the animation..

I'll come back later and answer questions.. Maybe give a better example..

[IMCanida]

Ok.. Kind of learned this one myself while doing it ..

I loaded up a little better one.. So you don't have to do much except for change the animation to whatever you want.. to load while the website loads..

This is how it should be set up..




Frame 1 of Actionscript =

totalBytes = Math.round(getBytesTotal()/1024);
loadedBytes = Math.round(getBytesLoaded()/1024);
percentDone = Math.round((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*100);
if (_root._framesloaded>=_root._totalframes) {
	gotoAndPlay("start");
}

frame 2 =

gotoAndPlay(1);

frame 3 =

stop();

Then at the very top * Layer 1 actionscript ( on my picture) * just make a blank keyframe F7.. And label that start It basically tells it after loading the file go to frame "start" which is frame 3 in my case..



This is where the animation goes..


Actionscript for this is

lastFrame = 1;

function loadedIndicatorFrame() {
	var newFrame = int((_parent.getBytesLoaded() / _parent.getBytesTotal()) * 33) + 2;
	if (newFrame - lastFrame > 4) {  //too far
		lastFrame += 4;
		loadedText = int(_parent.getBytesTotal() / 1024 * (lastFrame - 2) / 33) + "kb of " + int(_parent.getBytesTotal() / 1024) + "kb";
	} else if (newFrame - lastFrame > 0) {  //normal move
		lastFrame++;
		loadedText = int(_parent.getBytesLoaded() / 1024) + "kb of " + int(_parent.getBytesTotal() / 1024) + "kb";
	} else {  //update the text only
		loadedText = int(_parent.getBytesLoaded() / 1024) + "kb of " + int(_parent.getBytesTotal() / 1024) + "kb";
	}
	return lastFrame;
}

I don't know why but its not letting me upload the other file I made.. So I put it on a my peoples server ;P ...


www.underworldassailants.com/Test101/images