Hi Aaron,
By my definition, a preloader plays until the rest of the content is
sufficiently loaded for the .swf to stream at the user's bandwidth.
If you just want something to play in its entirety, you're talking
about an introduction, which is created the same as any other Flash
content. If you need something that will play all the way through but
then do some sort of waiting if the rest of the content isn't
sufficiently loaded, then you're back to the concept of inserting a
preloader. So you see, it's either an intro (which plays through once
and moves on to the main content), a preloader (which plays until
content is sufficiently loaded) or a combination of both.
The tour started by showing a golf ball traveling in a loop. Each
time the ball got close to the hole, the swf evaluated whether the
main content had sufficiently loaded. If the enough content was
loaded, the ball fell into the hole with a nice "clunk" sound, and
the main content played. On the other hand, if the main content
wasn't ready, the golf ball travelled back to its starting point and
then looped to the hole again, where it would once again check
loading status. So the ball would always travel at least to the hole,
and the main content would never play without the user seeing the
ball fall into the hole. The ball traveling to the hole is the intro
part. The ball looping continuously until the content is ready is the
preloader part.
Marc
At 09:40 AM 10/5/2006, you wrote:
Thanks for the sarcasm but I am not just trying to create a simple
preloader that plays until the movie has loaded. Rather, I want to
create a preloader that has two functions: 1) to preload the movie (of
coarse) and 2) to play the entire preloader's timeline even if the
movie has already been preloaded. It's the second part that I am
having trouble with.
A traditional preloader plays until the movie has been loaded.
Instead, I want the preloader to play in entirely even if the movie
has already been loaded. This way, the preloader is not just a
progress bar but an element of the movie.
I hope that makes sense.
On 10/5/06, Michael Stuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Aaron Roberson schrieb:
> I want to create a preloader that plays through even if the rest of
> the timeline has been loaded. I saw a tutorial on this some time back
> but can't find it now.
>
> Forgive me if this is a common request or something but I have
> searched and searched but can't find it. The problem is probably that
> I'm not sure what keywords to use for a good search.
>
you cannot find *anything* about how a *preloader* is made in flash ?
is the list archive down ?
is flashkit down ?
is google down ?
micha
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