Shawn So if you load the swf without the click using swfobject, does the preloader appear? Unfortunately, pointing to the swf directly isn't a really good comparison of how it will behave in an HTML page.
BTW - Have a look at Philip's onClick loading tutorial here. It should get you up and happening on the HTML/js side of things: http://pipwerks.com/lab/swfobject/load-onclick/2.0/index.html My initial guess is that the preloader may not actually be working the way you think it is. Have you unticked export on first frame for all of your classes / set a class export frame / moved assets to the correct location to allow the preloader to work as it should. Have a look at the bandwidth profiler when you export your swf to see how many bytes are on each frame. If you preload code is on frame 1, the bytes value for that frame should be really small compared to when your main assets are actually loaded... Aran -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shawn Sent: Monday, 13 April 2009 3:52 AM To: SWFObject Subject: SWF doesn't appear until fully loaded I'm embedding .swfs on my page with the dynamic publishing method of swfobject. I'm loading the .swf into a div when they click the 'play' button with some javascript. Everything works fine but the .swf wont actually appear on the screen until it has been fully loaded, completely ignoring the preloader functionality. //JAVASCRIPT THAT IS CALLED WHEN THE USER CLICKS 'PLAY' //id, width, and height have been passed into the function var attributes = {}; attributes.name = attributes.id = 'ContentFile_'+id; swfobject.embedSWF('/media/swf/uploads/content_files/content_file_'+id +'.swf', 'actual_content', width, height, '9.0.0', false, false, attributes); //END JAVASCRIPT the preloader works fine if I access the .swf directly in the browser. any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
