preloading components in Flash MX

[brockus]

Just wondering if anyone out there knows how you can keep the components in Flash from loading on the first frame. I want to use a preloader but it is defeating the purpose when I insert a component on a later frame because it all loads in the first frame preventing my preloader from showing right away. I have tried changing the linkage on the component to not export on the first frame, but this didn't seem to help.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Brock

[dizknee]

i've been wondering the saaaaaaaaame thing, and was about to search thru forums to find an answer

[kode]

Just load the movie dynamically into another movie, and put the preloader in the parent of the movie clip into which you're loading the external movie. :P

[dizknee]

dangit kode .. y do you have to make me feel stupid for telling me the crap i should have known, dangit to hell. hah

*edit, man, with the bleeps its just not as effective, lol

[brockus]

Being the literal person that I am, I still can't invision the code that will need to be place and where. Can you send along some example code or an FLA?

Thanks....

[kode]

The are two FLA's in the ZIP file:

component.fla:
Contains a preloader on the first frame, and a FScrollBar component on the second frame. If you test this movie, you will not see the preloader until the component has been fully loaded.

preloader.fla:
Contains a preloader and loads component.swf into an empty MovieClip on the first frame. If you test this movie, you'll see the preloader while component.swf is being loaded.

[brockus]

Thanks....I'll give it a whirl when I get a chance later this afternoon.

[kode]

Ok. Good luck! :beam: