Hi. You didn\'t say what kind of experience you have with flash or ActionScript, or what verion of flash you\'re on, but here\'s some tips.
Your swf is only 8kb but is loading slow? Does this mean you are loading things externally? You shouldn\'t need a preloader for 8kb even on 56k. But a very simply preloader might go like this:
// first frame
var total = _root.getBytesTotal();
var loaded = 0;
var percent = 0;
// second frame
loaded = _root.getBytesLoaded();
percent = loaded / total;
_root.loadbar._xscale = percent *100;
_root.percentTextBar = percent * 100;
// third frame
if (percent < 1) {
// keep looping until loaded
_root.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
// fourth frame
// movie loaded, do what you want
If you make a percent variable, instead of just using the getByte() functions directly, you can do other cool things like make a loadbar show the progress, or just send that value to a text box, like I\'ve added in frame 2.
I\'m not sure about your second problem. I\'ve never heard of that. But if you are loading things in from text files etc then that may be the problem.
If you\'re exporting things from the library using \"Export to first frame\" then they will get loaded before the actual first frame, ie before your preloader code is loaded! So that will make the preloader not work. There are ways around it though.
Hope that is some help. Not much else I can think of without more info. I would definately recomend flashkit.com, some excellent things on there. Source files for just about everything and some good forums.
EDIT:
Yeah, that\'s not really PHP! Just for code formatting, it\'s the only thing on this forum...
