Re: FLASH: looking for good preloaders

[John Croteau]

Hi Carla,


> My confusion is in how best to set this up. I'll explain about my movie...

> I am following what you said, with my own content...

> 1. I copied the  Preloader to frame 1 and put a blank keyframe in the next

> frame.

> 2. I put a stop Action in the same frame (on the Actions layer) as your

> preload MC

> 3. I started my content in the next frame.

> 4. I modified the "Quotes" MC with my preliminary content.

This is all fine up to here.


> Here is where I have questions. In order to get all my preliminary stuff

> into one MC, I combined 2 MC's that were separate ones in my original

> movie. So they each had their own Tween symbol. But now I have the 'Tween

> for Quotes MC'. I don't understand why I need this?  I assume this is a

> tween only for the preliminary content. So do I need to combine the Tween

> symbols in the 'Tween for Quotes MC'?

> Why is this Tween for Quotes MC a  *movie clip* but the other tweens that

> were created by  Flash in my movie are a *symbol*? (the ones that just

> appeared when I created a motion tween)

The Tweens are in the Movie Clip.


In this first version of the Preloader all of the elements are set up to

use a common tween effect.


The 'Movie Clip' version of the Preloader (which will likely be out this

week) will work with individual symbols (usually movie clips) with no

common tween effect. The second version is meant for use when your

loading elements do not need a common tween and are either static or

have their own effects.


>From what you describe the Movie Clip version will likely be more

suitable for your purpose.


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