Comments on: How to make a Flash preloader using Actionscript 3

By: Pascal

Pascal — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:30:56 +0000

If someone need to have % of this loading.

Put a text under progress bar and name-it.

After add this line in progressHandler function:

pourcentage.text = String(percent) + ” %”;

Enjoy!

By: iliuta

iliuta — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:49:39 +0000

Yes you can link to this post. Your welcomed !

By: Backlink software

Backlink software — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:48:55 +0000

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By: nancy

nancy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:19:33 +0000

I’d like to use a preloader on my main page to load all swfs in the site for all pages. Is there a way to use this code to load multiple swfs?

thanks,

Nancy

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:46:39 +0000

Thanks! it works like a charm…

By: ABurns

ABurns — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:22:15 +0000

Hi,
your tutorial works great but I dont know how to insert the URL of the seperate swf file ( loader.load(new URLRequest()); ) Ive tried typing in the full location on my computer, Ive put the swf file in the same folder as the preloader. But its just not picking it up. Could you please maybe give me an examle of how the file path url should look?

Help please, this is for a big project due soon for college

By: Andrei Rinciog

Andrei Rinciog — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:23:48 +0000

Hello,

Yes, I’ve tested it .

If you follow the steps from the textfield on the stage you won’t get any errors (I just double checked). And you don’t need to add double quotes to the path, actually its better not to as I’m taking the whole text from that field as a string.

Are you sure that this error is not from the loaded swf? If you do stage operations or try to access a parent it might send an error when you load it into another swf. Try with a basic and simple swf file and see if it works.

Regards,
Andrei Rinciog

By: John Crumpton

John Crumpton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:45:14 +0000

Silly question but have you tested this?

Can you provide a zip so we can see it working because if I add double quotes around the URLRequest to load my swf I get the following error:

ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/removeChild()
at preloader_fla::MainTimeline/completeHandler()

By: guillaume

guillaume — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:12:42 +0000

and then : how can I put the bar (or any mc for that matter), on the foreground, because mc tend to get behind all my layers, and therefore invisible….

By: guillaume

guillaume — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:51:37 +0000

Hello Andrei,
thanks for your nice answer. I understand you don’t understand : I’m just so new to AS3 that I don’t know exactly how to use the loader instance. I can’t find the code that’s going to put a loader instance on my page, call the different swf files and then disappear. Maybe you know a nice tutorial for that… I couldn’t find any…
Thanks a lot !
guillaume