Progress Bar for a animation state

[Philbrooks]

I have an animation to which I want to add a progress bar that indicates the state of loading of the animation, how could I apply that progress bar to show how much it has loaded or how much remains to finish loading the animation? Think that you enter a website and there are some long animations... I need a bar to show the loading progress of that animation to know if it is fully loaded or not. It's like downloading a file, you see a bar that tells you how long it takes to finish. I want to have a bar to see how long it takes to finish loading a certain animation of my project

[kglad]

canvas or as3?

are you actuall loading something into your main canvas/as3?

[Philbrooks]

Sorry, Canvias into Canvas.

[kglad]

what code are you using to do that?

[Philbrooks]

I don't have code because I really don't know how to perform that action. I have an animation and I want it to show a progress bar or counter of how long it takes to finish loading a certain animation, I had seen that it is called preloader but honestly I don't know how to do it. I would really appreciate the help

[kglad · Accepted solution]

i didn't think you did. you don't really appear to understand some basic concepts.

but rather than deal with that, open your canvas fla, click file>publish settings>and tick "include preloader".

see if that does what you want, or is close to what you want:

[Philbrooks]

Thanks for u help 🙂

[kglad]

does that do what you want?

[Philbrooks]

Actually what I'm looking for is a graphical preloader like a counter or a progress bar for independent animations. My work has 3 parts, I want each of those parts to have that preloader, not one for everything. Imagine that it shows three progress bars, one for each part, part one has fully loaded but maybe the second and third need more time so that progress will take longer. What you want is to have a bar that shows that process but not in general of all the work but of each part or animation

[Philbrooks]

My work is a graphic book, it is seen in parts and there are some buttons to activate each of those parts. What I want is that when each of these parts is activated, it shows a progress bar to know if the loading of the animation of that part has finished.

[kglad]

it's not easy to do what you want.  it can be done but probably requires redoing your project.

ie, if you have all your assets in one fla, it can't be done because all timeline assets have to load before any timeline code can execute.  there's no work-around to that.

[Philbrooks]

Thank you for taking the time to answer me, it's a pity that you can't. Thank you for explaining to me

[kglad]

you're welcome.

but again, it can be done.  if your browser (eg, edge) doesn't block insecure downloads you can a preloader i added for the loading of pics and movies here, Cal Hi-Monte Vista (a website i built for my highschool alums).