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Ing__Juan
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January 25, 2010
Question

loading is not working since the start

  • January 25, 2010
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Hello,

I'm having problems with a preloading bar that i made for my website. The problem is that it is only showing up once it reach like the 80% of the total before it doesn't show up at all. This is also happening for external swf that i'm loading to the main swf.

Does any body has any idea in how to fix this? The main SWF size is around 1 mb. thank in advance.

the site is www.newconcept.com.mx

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 25, 2010

even if your preloader is in frame 1, all assets linked for export with actionscript and all embedded fonts must load before your preloader is displayed.

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Ing__JuanAuthor
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January 26, 2010

is there anything i can do? any advice?


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Harry Kunz
Inspiring
January 27, 2010

The reason for that is that before your SWF even reaches frame 1, the flash player is loading part of the content ahead of time. That's why it is not efficient to place a preloader within your actual content you want to load. The most efficient way to preload your content is to separate the preloader SWF from the content SWF and make the preloader file size as small as possible so that it will popup immediately. I have made a preloader that dynamically gets drawn. I was able to make it only 1.35 KB in size. See a sample output of some flash contents preloaded in different articles at my blog http://flashuniversity.blogspot.com/. I have also attached here a copy you can use, just change the SWF file name in frame 1 which is currently set as "External.swf"

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