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Flash 4 - Simple Preloader
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You can use as many frames as you want, but I always use 5 or 10. I'll use 10 for this tutorial. So the first 10 frames of your movie will be set for your preloader.
You can make anything you want for the actual display of the preloader, anything that will fill those 10 frames, possibly like a motion tween or something to that effect.
In Frame 1, double-click and bring up the properties. Go to Actions and click the "+" button. Everything in bold will be what you need to add.
If Frame Is Loaded (#) - # will be the last frame in your movie.
Go To And Play (11) - The first frame of your actual movie.
In Frame 10 Actions add:
Go To And Play (1) - Loops itself back to the beginning of the preloader.
So all it does, is loop itself, and every time it returns back to Frame 1, it checks to see if the last frame of your whole movie is loaded. If so, it goes straight to the movie, and if not, continues to loop itself until it is.
You can make anything you want for the actual display of the preloader, anything that will fill those 10 frames, possibly like a motion tween or something to that effect.
In Frame 1, double-click and bring up the properties. Go to Actions and click the "+" button. Everything in bold will be what you need to add.
If Frame Is Loaded (#) - # will be the last frame in your movie.
Go To And Play (11) - The first frame of your actual movie.
In Frame 10 Actions add:
Go To And Play (1) - Loops itself back to the beginning of the preloader.
So all it does, is loop itself, and every time it returns back to Frame 1, it checks to see if the last frame of your whole movie is loaded. If so, it goes straight to the movie, and if not, continues to loop itself until it is.