I wouldn't take the time to download another thing, I would just bake it into the custom preloader. The preloader is being tickled by a timer already, so that's be best you can do.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of celumbra Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 6:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] animation in custom preloader I have a custom preloader, made from implementing the IPreloaderDisplay interface. It works great, but I wonder whether I can animate an object in the display without using the progress event to stimulate the change in values. I've seen examples that embed a swf made in Flash CS, is it possible to download short piece of code that runs while the Preloader is downloading? I tried instantiating a Timer, for instance, during the initialize() and in the set preloader(), but, in the de-bugger, it looks as though tracking the loaded bits takes over, so any bit of code could not respond to timer events until the Preloader dispatches its final event. Is this correct? That it is not possible to launch a short piece of code to execute while the main app is downloading (simultaneously)? Any comments would be helpful. Thanks.
