loading screen for external swf's

[agentxi]

Hey, before you guys point me to the "simple preloader" tutorial on this site i just want to say, I am wanting to play a movieclip while i'm loading an external movieclip into my scene.

I have looked around the web some, and couldn't quite find the tutorial I needed. Unless I'm using the wrong words in my search.

here is my code i have for my "preloader" but now i want a loading animation to play when i import an external swf. I am trying to get this all done before monday so i'm slowly feeling a sense of panic in my stomach as i'm unable to find this

play_btn.onPress = function () {
	loadMovie("swan.swf", "footage_mc");
	footage_mc._x = 185;
	footage_mc._y = 150;
	footage_mc._yscale = 58;
	footage_mc._xscale = 58;
}

[notjustgraphics]

If you use the OnPress to play a scene in the "current" movie which contains yor loader you can then use actionscript to execute an OnLoad event for the first frame of your "loader" scene.

So, when the loader scene first starts to play, it will begin loading your portfolio video...

You can play with different options to repeat the loader until your new video is fully loaded as well.

Mike.

[agentxi]

hey mike thanks for the tip ...again.

have you ever used the movieClipLoader?

most of the articles I have been reading the past day and a half all kinda mention this ...to use that along with an eventListener

i found some really great tutorials on senocular.com : News I'm going to try the one about the preloaders, it gives 5 samples so i'm hoping one of them works for me

and maybe skip down to the broadcasting tutorial as well...it might come in handy shortly

[synthetic]

Lynda.com has a few good tutorials that cover movieClipLoader... I had a class that used one of their books (Flash 8 Beyond the Basics). It had us build a website using that function for a preloader that played a movieClip while loading.

I would try to explain it but... without lots of trial and error and going back over my book... I don't know it well enough to describe the process.

[agentxi]

hey thanks for the book name

I'll definitely check it out.

[agentxi]

hey mike, not sure if you're still interested in finding out the problems i'm having with the loading screen etc...

but i found a good article at kirupa that talks about inheritance in actionscripting ...it might prove helpful, i'll probably try and read through it all before i sleep tonite.

kirupa.com - AS1 OOP: Inheritance

there's another article in the main flash area that discusses actionscript2.0 and inheritance classes, etc...
kirupa.com - OOP ActionSript 2.0