[dixon]

hey guys.
ok im alright at flash know the basics but F*CKing B*llocks (complete beginner) at actionscipting.
i cant figure out why this preloader aint working. i think i got the scripting wrong from the GotoAndPlay blah blah blah
can someone give me a point on where i went wrong and how to improve.
Thank you for your time.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dickson.mok/preload2.zip

[JiRaffe]

you could try labelling the content frame "Last Frame" and then instead of the first lot of code you have in your preloader, just put...

ifFrameLoaded ("Last Frame") {
gotoAndPlay("content",1);
}


worth a try?

in what way did the current one not work?

[Bill Posters]

I happened to be playing around with preloaders yesterday (I'm also a know-nothing when it comes to Flash). I noticed that some function/scripts are deprecated in Flash MX, more specifically, the ifFramesLoaded method was listed as deprecated.
I ended up using the following (more modern?) method:

if (_framesloaded>=_totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}


Not sure if this has an impact on the problem you're experiencing Dixon, but when I see words like deprecated next to some methods (i.e. ifFrameLoaded), it makes me think twice about whether it's going to work if published as a later version number.

Just a thought.

[oli]

You could use the preloader component, very easy but also cheating a bit :
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/p..._component.htm

[tomson]

Couldn't open dixons .fla but I've been using this sorta thing (obviously its somewhat different in that it displays a percentage value of what has loaded)

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(2);
}
}

Think it was pinched from Kirupa or similar.
Might give the _totalframes malarky a go tho, seems neat.

[flatcat]

yah, I use the same one as tomson, although I usually have some sort of bar on the screen showing the percentage, for this example we'll pretend that our loading bar on the screen is 255 pixels long... and I'm a code centralization whore so..... it would look like:

loader.onEnterFrame = function(){
loaded = getBytesLoaded();
total = getBytesTotal();
percent = (loaded/total)*100;
loader._width = (percent*2.55);
if (percent >=100){
gotoAndPlay("content");
}
}

[dixon]

thx guys for all the help!
i finally got it working