Preloader

[Brian S]

Hello. I've put together a good few preloaders before, often with the help of online resources such as Kirupa and Flash Kit. This time it's an animation - no percentage loaded or progress bar - and the site starts when the animation movieclip has played all the way through (at a rate decided by the bandwidth) so I used Joshua Hirsch's tutorial on the Adobe site, http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/preloader_print.html

That's all well and good, but I need the site to skip the preloader animation if the user has already visited the site and there is no need to load all the information again. I've done this before with progress bars and percentages but not with a full animation.

Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

[seanrock]

broken link

[Brian S]

broken link

Just fixed that now, sorry about that!

[ghostmonk]

I didn't spend time looking at that tutorial, but if the user has already loaded the asset, the loader should only flash up for a second, indicating that something is loading. Since the asset is already on their computer, it would take no time to load it. You would need the proper Event.COMPLETE listener registered to call a function that would remove the loadProgress animation.

Wait, I just realized what's happening here, this is AS2. Man, am I in the wrong forum, or are you?

[Brian S]

Wait, I just realized what's happening here, this is AS2. Man, am I in the wrong forum, or are you?

Right, I just posted this in the AS2 forum. Thanks for your help, ghostmonk.