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Ms.Lee

Yes, you could use such an animation on the first frame and while the rest of the content is loading, then go to the second frame. But this solution is good only if you do not have embedded fonts because they would load at the beginning and your preloader wouldn’t be visible until those fonts load. The best solution would be with a separate loader clip into which you would place that preloader. But as I mentioned, the first solution might work too, if you don’t have embedded fonts (just remember to deactivate the “Export in first frame” option from the Linkage dialog box of your components and set the Export classes to frame 2 in the publish settings).

I’ve tried it, but there’s a problem… I can do a preloader made in AS but it’s such a stupid progress bar with Loading : XX% and the bar progress with scaleX… well… My teammate did such a nice clip with an animation in it for the preload, and I’d like to know… if there’s a way to make it play while everything is downloading, so the preload would be a clip, once the preloader on the frame 1 he would do it’s little animation and once the project fully loaded, go to frame 2 OR am I comdamned to put the animation in a second .swf file and make him load the project?

Thanks for this, if possible, send the answer here : joeli@videotron.ca

It’s good to know I managed to help you out through the article. Indeed there’s the problem of FlashEff needing a little time to initialize, so it is recommended to leave some frames before using it (this info is found in the FlashEff’s forum too: http://www.flasheff.com/forum/).

First of all…. thanks a million! I have spent pretty much a day on adding a preloading bar to my site.
My site has an swf file in it that takes time to load. The swf file was originally an fla file I made in CS3 and contained A LOT of flasheff components. Adding a loading bar to this appeared more challenging than I thought! Most tutorials out there seemed to deal with AS2 which I could not use due to flasheff components.

I read your previous instructions, and indeed was hitting the problem of having the swf appear after only 50% of the bar was loaded. The loading bar would stay on the screen until it’s full 100%.

I added your trick above described in the last paragraph; going back to the fla file, shifting everything to frame 2,
reconverting it to a new swf file, and add the gotoAndStop(2) in the AS.

The only problem I see now is that as soon as the swf movie starts to play, it seems to freeze for a fraction of a second and you can see “flasheff” signs instead of the buttons. This only takes a fraction of a second, then everything looks normal. It is a little annoying though. I feel I am close to having it perfect now…. any tips?
In any case, thank you! I can finally go to bed now….