RE: FLASH: PRELOADER HELP

[Kathy Reddin]

Assuming that your main.swf movie is more than one frame long.....

You need to check to see if the LAST frame is loaded and not the first.


If you have 20 total frames in the scene "Scene1":


if frame is loaded (Scene1, 20)

  Get URL ("main.htm")

end frame loaded


If your movie is only 1 frame long....just add one frame and do this:


if frame is loaded (Scene1, 2)

  Get URL ("main.htm")

end frame loaded



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 Behalf Of Bob

Weinacht

Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 1:20 PM

To:

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Subject: FLASH: PRELOADER HELP



Hello everyone,


I am having a problem with my preloader and am sure

the solution is simple, but my brain refuses to help

me out.....


I have two SWFs each with their own HTML file:

preloader.swf (which is embedded in preloader.html)

and main.swf (which is embedded in main.html)


What I want to happen is thus: While preloader is

looping through a sequence, main.swf is preloading.

Once main.swf has been preloaded (or cached) the

preloader movie launches the main.html file.


I have been using the load movie action with the

target being another movie clip (instance name dummy)

whose alpha is set to 0%.  The script looks like this:


Load movie ("main.swf", "/dummy")


My "if frame is loaded" action looks like this:


if frame is loaded (/dummy, 1)

  Get URL ("main.htm")

end frame loaded



This is not working! When the main.html file is

launched, the main.swf file is obviously not loaded. 


I would greatly appreciate your help. My first born

child is up for grabs if necessary.


Thanks so much,


Bob



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