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grj_photoman
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June 7, 2009
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preloader for swf in dreamweaver

  • June 7, 2009
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Hi there,

I am new to Flash and Actionscript, so bear with me

I am buidling a website in Dreamweaver CS3.

Is it possible to create a preloader for an swf file,  inside a div tag within a Dreamweaver document?.

Take my friends site for exampe, which I suspect is made entirely in Flash: http://www.ericbeecroft.com/

When you,click on any button inside "portfolio", a preloader symbol appears ,but  the movie does not procede without the control of the red next and previous buttons at the bottom right corner. How is this done?.

I am reluctant to design everything in Flash, is that I have heard search engines such as Google have trouble indexing website's that are made entirely from Flash. Or am I wrong in thinking this?.

Any help is very  much appreciated,

Cheers

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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June 7, 2009

you can make a preloader for a swf file but the preloader should be another swf file or part of the swf file that you're going to embed.  it would be more work to embed another swf file  preloader in its own div and wouldn't make much sense.

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grj_photomanAuthor
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June 7, 2009

I see. Thanks

Basically, what I want is for the images to preload so theres no delay when the viewer looks throuh them

So, how do you make preloader for an home/index page, such as the way this one works: http://www.ericbeecroft.com/

First you just have a preloader in a blank page then the main content of the website appears..

Sorry! Im new to this. Thankyou,,

Cheers

kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2009

that can't be answered without knowing something about the swf that displays the images.  first, are the images in that swfs library or are they loaded by that swf?

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