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

By: DeltaFrog

DeltaFrog — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:02:14 +0000

Ok sry for my rants up there, long day. ;D Everything seems to be working now.

Any suggestions on getting these two line to run with a delay?

myMovie=Sprite(l.content);
addChild(myMovie);

I tried Set interval but it didn’t work for me. Thanks in advance.

By: DeltaFrog

DeltaFrog — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:18:49 +0000

I got a “Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference” error when I used this method to load my working swf. You do have to worry about how you code your file. For me it was not plug and play… ;(

By: DeltaFrog

DeltaFrog — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:23:04 +0000

If your loading the swf into the other swf does the browser know too look for newly updated swf’s with this method? In as2 I always had to add a random id number too loaded swf’s. Any thoughts on that?

By: mark mun

mark mun — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:34:38 +0000

What do you do if your loaded swf also has external assets that it needs to load that needs to be displayed in the loader swf progress bar?

By: Deon

Deon — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:10:14 +0000

I wanted to leave an answer in case someone stumbled in here with my problem.

“Gzip compression is on in the server; turn it off it will be ok. Do so by using a .htaccess file and in it write this without qoutes ” Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule \.swf$ – [E=no-gzip:1] “

By: Deon

Deon — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:57:54 +0000

I did everything exactly as written in the original post, and it works fine offline, but once it is on my server the text starts at 100, and with a trace of “Math.ceil(perc*100).toString()” I see it looping the percent count over and over. This seems to be the case with every preloader I try to use, any suggestions?

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:09:39 +0000

I find the little pop-out thing(“annoying” reply – quote) blocks the text when trying to read what people posted .

By: Beebs

Beebs — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:22:53 +0000

Thanks for your reply.

I have further wish list. Since I love your approach of this preloader, how possible to have them in a document class?

The reason I have this wish list is that I will use the preloader in many places ( like child movies) – so it will be handy if I can call it in a function – something like this.

Thanks Zedia

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:34:49 +0000

You have to remove your previous content from the display list before you set it to null. The addChild method create a link to the object so as long as you didn’t remove that link, that object cannot be destroyed(garbage collected).

By: Beebs

Beebs — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:11:42 +0000

Hi It’s me again.

I manage to deal with my post#18 above.

However, the further issue arrive : I load more than 2 external movie into var myMovie.

Although I keep the “l = null” , the movie are sit on top each other instead of replacing them.

Can you shed me alight how to unload the old one and load the new one?

Thanks a lot