Comments on: The right way to do a preloader in AS3

By: Muzikayise

Muzikayise — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:04:39 +0000

thank you, i was looking for a nice elegant solution to pre-load swfs and this is perfect.

also thanks to Lee Brimelow

By: Goofyfoot2001

Goofyfoot2001 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:28:28 +0000

I’m not dissing your solution just that it’s the whole AS3 preloader subject is sadly lacking even after years of people hacking away at it. Maybe it’s just Google ranking the wrong pages or something and the solution is out there but too far back in the search results.

By: Goofyfoot2001

Goofyfoot2001 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:26:13 +0000

Not a single one of the external preloaders found online work. PERIOD. This one doesn’t prevent the external content from starting as soon as it starts loading. If you stop the external content then you will be hiding the preloader graphics. I’m going to get this right and publish something that people can actually use. I’m new to as3 but not programming and this is ridiculous that this page comes up first on a search for external preloaders.

By: shayne

shayne — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:58:55 +0000

Great tutorial even though iam complelty dumb when it comes to as3..ive managed to export the swc file from flash..then ive made a flash catalyst project then exported that…then imported my flash catalyst project into flash builder..then inported the swc and also created the new preloader class…everything works well even the preloader loads my catalyst swf..the only problem i have is the preloader repeats itself 3 times before loading the swf..ive tried everything to fix it but cant work out why….you can see the loader doing it here http://avatars.imvu.com/VisNova

By: tony

tony — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:28:20 +0000

what a nightmare, i use the files exactly as there were presented, but of course the movie loaded start playing early (60% thru), and when you stop that movie then tell it to play in the preloader the code stops working, perfectly frustrating, just enough to pull your hair out:
does var myMovie:Sprite; need to become
var myMovie:MovieClip; ????? i tried it, and mf’s started playing at 20 percent

By: saurabh agrawal

saurabh agrawal — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:12:25 +0000

I want to load multiple external swf in as3 but it should load one after another and should be added one after another but loaded at once.

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swf Datei laden und aktiv schalten - Flashforum — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:43:21 +0000

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By: Jun

Jun — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:28:43 +0000

Loading the external swf file using the code above I got an error. The external swf file doesn’t load at the first frame, It jumps into several frames (115 frames). My external swf file has several scenes: intro, scene 1 and so fort.

By: bennettd123

bennettd123 — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:09:25 +0000

@Beebs How did you solve your problem?? Can you please share? I've been stuck on this for so long. I also followed #34, Bernie's link, but it didn't work for me. Even though it seemed my situation was exactly the same...

By: mT

mT — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:30:32 +0000

this is becoming extremely frustrating, followed Lees tut…and referenced Tuts elsewhere as well, and i simply cannot get this file to load….

whenever i publish, all i get is a white screen, the profiler shows that the .swf is loading into the preloader, but nothing is showing (not even the pre-loader)

once the loaded swf is done loading, nothing shows up, even after being added to the display list…

im at my wits end and about to put my foot through both my monitors