What is flash preloader?
Preloader is an animation or graphic progress indicator, which allows user to see the loading percentage of whole flash document. Usually loading animation is accompanied with numeric counting from 0% to 100%. See Demo
Why do you need preloader?
Preloader is needed to show that the website or image is being loaded in the background. Otherwise users do not have any visual indication of the loading progress and might think that website freezes, especially when having a slow connection or loading large resource.
Flash and Actionscript do offer a variety of methods to implement the preloader in your own flash application. At preloaderz.com we offer free and featured solution as Advanced Flash/Actionscript Preloader library classes.
This open source flash component allows implement preloader without a single line of Actionscript code.Moreover, using our flash preloader you may apply your own flash animation to indicate loading process. Our classes were tested and debugged to be effectively used in your flash development.
Free Advanced Flash/Actionscript Preloader classes library offer a number of useful features:
- preloader might be used as a component in design time. All you need to do is to drop one at the timeline of your flash document and set proper parameters
- preloader class can be created and used in Actionscript code
- user may use own flash loading animation, specifying it through parameter
- preloader can show progress of externally loaded images or swf files
- preloader dispatches ActionScript events, which you may simply handle and specify proper action when loading starts, loading in progress and loading is completed
- preloader can resize the loaded image automatically when it’s loaded
- user may play loading animation in two modes: progressive - animation is played according to the loading progress; and cyclic - simply looping any animation while loading is in progress
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How do I get this preloaderz to work? The documentation doesn’t give an example. I tried dragging the component
to the stage and put the target “mymovieclip_instance”. I have a mymovieclip_instance at frame 2.
Hey People,
how do you get to use this preloader? If I do not know to write my own preloader (which is very simple and there are tons of tutorials on the web) than I really would need help in how to set up your preloader!
Write down a few examples pleaze!
I agree with the last two comments.
I could probably get this preloader to work but it would make it so much faster if you posted an example. I am wanting to use the preloader in a Flex project.
I gave it a try again, because I saw there was a tutorial now. But it is still not clear:
- where on the timeline I put my content that I want to load?
- I want to load a movieclip that I have on the stage – how do I do this?
- What do I put in the parameter “source”?
- What do I put in the parameter “target”?
Example my flash website (actionscript 2) should load different movieclips on stage when I enter the website. How do I preload these moviclips?
Can you make this clear in the tutorial? Maybe a flash *fla example to download.
how do i put the preloader to work on a program like pivot