Preloader not working in IE….

Report · Dec 14, 2013

Hi All,

Here is my code:

stop();

var preLoaderPercent:Number;

this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);

this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, loadProgress);

function loadComplete(e:Event) {

this.loaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);

this.loaderInfo.removeEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, loadProgress);

play();

}

function loadProgress(e:ProgressEvent):void {

preLoaderPercent = Math.floor((e.bytesLoaded / e.bytesTotal)*100);

loader_txt.text = preLoaderPercent + "%";

}

loader_txt shows the percent loaded fine in Safari, Firefox and Chrome but in IE it doesn't show the percent loaded, it just all of a sudden starts playing the movie. I've cleared the cache in IE as well....

I've also tried using enterFrame instead and that does exactly the same thing in IE.

Any help greatly appreciated....

Report · Dec 14, 2013

Problems across browsers usually stem from the html embedding code in the web page. Do you have a link to the page or can you show that code?

Report · Dec 15, 2013

<body>

</a>

</object>

</div>

</body>

Report · Dec 15, 2013

BAsed on the embedding code that CS6 produces for me when I publish it using Flash, your code appears to be missing the portion for IE. HEre is an example of what CS6 publishes for me, where you can see that your code only includes the !IE (not IE) portion...

</a>

</object>

</object>

</div>

Report · Dec 16, 2013

I'm using Flash CC and when i publish it does not include the code for IE only the code i showed you. Is there a setting i'm mising or something?

Report · Dec 16, 2013

Try starting over in Dreamweaver and just adding the swf there. It does a fairly good job with these things.

Report · Dec 16, 2013

Hi Amy,

I started over using Dreamweaver and here is my code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<head>

<title>TooNeat Studios :: Advanced Digital Media</title>

html, body {

height:100%;

background-color: #000000;

}

body {

overflow:hidden;

margin-top: 0px;

}

#con {

position: relative;

}

#flashContent {

position: absolute;

left:50%;

margin-left:-640px;

}

</style>

swfobject.registerObject("tooneat", "11.9.900", "expressInstall.swf");

</script>

</head>

<body>

</a>

</object>

</object>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Still have exactly the same issue, when viewed in Firefox, Chrome and Safari my preloader shows the % of the file loading but when viewed in IE it doesn't show the %, it just shows an all black screen then once the file loads it starts playing my movie....

Report · Dec 16, 2013

Hi Ned,

Now I have this code:

</a>

</object>

</object>

and i'm still having the same issue:

loader_txt shows the percent loaded fine in Safari, Firefox and Chrome but in IE it doesn't show the percent loaded, it just all of a sudden starts playing the movie.

Report · Dec 16, 2013

Hi Ned,

I've embedded my swf using swfObject 2, my preloader shows up fine in Firefox, Chrome and Safari but when viewed in IE the preloader doesn't show up....there is just a pause and once the movie has loaded it starts to play.

This is my latest code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<head>

<title>TooNeat Studios :: Advanced Digital Media</title>

html, body {

height:100%;

background-color: #000000;

}

body {

overflow:hidden;

margin-top: 0px;

}

#con {

position: relative;

}

#flashContent {

position: absolute;

left:50%;

margin-left:-640px;

}

</style>

swfobject.registerObject("tooneat", "11.9.900", "expressInstall.swf");

</script>

</head>

<body>

</a>

</object>

</object>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Report · Dec 16, 2013

Do you have any RSL's loading (for instance, are you using TLF text)?

Report · Dec 16, 2013

I don't think i am....

I do embed a particular font style when i publish the swf....

Would that make a difference?

Report · Dec 16, 2013

See if that's the case by trying a textfield with no special font/dressing - just make sure the text color is visible against the background it sits over.

Report · Dec 17, 2013

I tried not embedding the font and same problem still there. One more thing I did find out is that I don't have this issue with previous versions of IE, seems only to happen in IE 11....

Report · Dec 17, 2013

If you have TLF text on any text field, it will cause that RSL to download. There were several Flash versions where TLF was the default (before they deprecated it :-p). So if you didn't make a special effort to select "classic text," chances are high that you did use TLF text somewhere.

Click on a text field and see if the first combobox in the "Properties" panel says "TLF text." If it doesn't that doesn't mean that none of your text fields have TLF text, but if it does it means that you are definitely using TLF text.

Report · Dec 18, 2013

I've checked, and I'm not using TLF text on any text field....

Report · Dec 18, 2013

Hmn, I'm not sure then. There may be other things you can do (Inverse Kinematics may be one thing) that will make RSL's load without any user action, but I don't know what they are.

Also, are you using IE 11? I think it disables some features of older Flash player versions, so to get full functionality in IE11 you may need to install the latest player even if you're only targeting an older version.

Report · Dec 29, 2013

Hey- if you still have issues on flash runtime ,would you pls log a bug to

https://bugbase.adobe.com/, thanks.

When adding the bug, please include sample code and the exactly browser(version) you used so we can quickly test this out internally. If you would like to keep this private, feel free to e-mail the attachment to me (jiyuan@adobe.com) directly and I will attach it to the bug for internal use only.