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Inspiring
August 7, 2008
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External preloader

  • August 7, 2008
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I'm using a separate swf to preload my main movie, but when the main swf file is displayed, it is already 100 or more frames into the timeline. It never starts at frame 0. This all happens when using the bandwidth profiler.

The main swf is a timeline-based movie. The only Actionscript is stop(); at the end of the animation.

Here is the code for the preloader:
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kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 7, 2008
you're welcome.
kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 7, 2008
put a stop() on frame 1 of your loaded swf. when loading is complete, execute your loader's content property (typed as a movieclip) to play().
SMGIAuthor
Inspiring
August 7, 2008
Worked great. Thanks.