Re: FLASH: Loading Movie

[Brian Clifton]

I am trying to understand the 'if frame is loaded' sample from within Flash4 i.e. using a 

tweened bar to reflect percent download. However on viewing the swf file, no animation of 

the loading bar occurs - it comes up 100% and then loads the animating character.


The bar has a name 'loader' which should scale (XScale) according to the number of frames 

downloaded. Xposition, YPosition work OK, but not XScale


Has anyone done this? 


Best regards, Brian


> OK, I think I can explain it...  if you don't understand go to 

> www.macromedia.com and find flash help, top technotes...

> 

> anyway..  for example..lets say you have a 100 frame animation..   and it

> starts in the third frame.  Than your 1st frame should have an action "If

> frame is loaded [100) go to and play (3)". When the animation (first

> frame) starts it will check if frame 100 is loaded, and if it is, it will

> start on 3..where your movie starts.  Now if frame 100 has not leaded it

> will normaly go to frame 2.  To prevent it from going further make frame 2

> with an action "Go to and play (frame 1)" this will couse flash to

> Re-check for frame 100, and if it is loaded it will skip 2 and go to frame

> 3 and start the movie.  usualy 2 frames is enough for a "Loading scene"

> but you can always make it longer...    i hope this helps.  if not refer

> to the top of this document...

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