Comments on: External Preloader; more complex cases

By: Eelco

Eelco — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:46:50 +0000

I am getting an error if I use this code in the preloader:

TypeError: Error #1034 Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::MovieClip@8d56c4 to IMain.

By: Joni

Joni — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:23:56 +0000

@jvc
It depends where you add the child object.
If you add the child directly to the stage, like this:
stage.addChild(child);
child.root, or child.stage.root gives you a reference to the Stage, which doesn’t have the LoaderInfo available.

You should add the child to the Document Class instance.
child.stage.root will give you a Stage reference, which doesn’t have the LoaderInfo.
But child.root will have a reference to the Document Class instance (or Main class), which does have the LoaderInfo available.

So the correct (and only) way of getting the root.loaderInfo property is to add the child to the Main class instance (or to any child of it) and use the following: root.loaderInfo.

By: Flashdeveloper @ Work

Flashdeveloper @ Work — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:31:56 +0000

links for 2009-12-18…

External Preloader; more complex cases | preloading in as3 | as3 preloaders | preloader interface | zedia flash blog
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By: jvc

jvc — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:50:39 +0000

Also as long as the child swf has been added to the stage you can also get to the flashvars from a child swf with

this.stage.root.loaderInfo.parameters

By: Visco

Visco — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:20:04 +0000

Communication between 2 flash applet? Local Connection…that’s it.

By: Hadi

Hadi — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:18:47 +0000

Zedia, Thanks. I love all your articals relating to interfaces you reall made me going on…

By: Pascal

Pascal — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:11:59 +0000

Hi, thank you for the great tutorials, but I have a question. I need some clarification about how exactly to use interfaces for the exit animation of an external preloader, and what method is to be called from the loaded swf?

By: Randy Olson

Randy Olson — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:56:05 +0000

I will say that I need help getting my preloader to play all the way out before my main movie displays.
I’m going to bed. Suggestions are welcome!

By: Randy Olson

Randy Olson — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:44:15 +0000

Nevermind…got that working as well.

Had to change myLogo.mouseChildren = false

Man I’m on FIRE tonight

By: Randy Olson

Randy Olson — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:27:43 +0000

Okay so once I have the logo “registered” as an object my main movie can control…how do I addEventListeners to it? I have some functions setup to add and remove eventlisteners from the logo?