Then I load the main movie, which upon initialization references the same FlashVars instance. The instance raised by the preloader will always shadow the instance created in the loaded movie, so I know I’m using updated values. In the case of using the movie without the preloader, I can always have that run on the dummy/default values assigned to the properties in FlashVars.

I just found this to be working too:

public function Main()
{
if (this.parent) { init(); }
}

if loaded directly, this.parent returns the Stage object,
if loaded from the loader, this.parent returns null.

During development, every time you test your movie, the Main class will ‘hang’ since the init-method isn’t called (gets only called by the preloader).
Ofcourse, you can bypass this (during development) by calling init() in the constructor of Main, but that means code-changing every time you want to make a release version (with preloader) and a development version (without preloader)

I’ve been checking, but haven’t found an elegant solution: It would be great if in Mains constructor, you could write something like:

public function Main()
{
if (!loadedByPreloader) { init(); }
}

Question is, how can the ‘loadedByPreloader’ variable be defined?

thanks for any insights.