Flash query

Fir3fly · 29 Mar 2006 at 09:35

Hi guys,

Im pretty new to flash so i hope the following is a common problem.

I just made a simple holiday flash banner for work, and i added a loading screen.
Everything works fine except one thing.

When I test it out with Flash MX 2004 and use simulate download, the loading bar plays fine from 0-100 as it should, but then when the flash movie actually starts playing, it isnt playing frmo the beginning of the flash movie, its starting from somewhere near the end.

Im not sure if there are some sort of start tags that u need to set or something, as i said im pretty new to it, but if any1 knows a way around this i would appreciate it

thanks

Immsy · 29 Mar 2006 at 10:43

Dont use the simulate download as its not that accurate and reliable anyway. Just publish the movie and see if it works ok from there.

Fir3fly · 29 Mar 2006 at 10:48

ok thanks ill give that a try

Fir3fly · 29 Mar 2006 at 11:01

http://firefly.rar.gi/flash/preloading.html its still doing the same thing mate,

what it seems to be doing is starting the actual flash banner before its sposed to...its not waiting for the loading screen to get to 100% to start playing....its playing in the background :S if u know what i mean..

any1 know how to fix this?

also...just realised....none of my text is coming out in the flash banner...it appears locally tho

Fir3fly · 29 Mar 2006 at 12:55

sum1 plz?

Immsy · 29 Mar 2006 at 13:25

While its loading you need to setup a preloader loop to loop the loader until the whole thing is done loading. It seems like you dont have one of these as its playing the movie at the same time its loading (streaming). Have you got a preloader loop setup or are you just using some fancy loading graphics?

Fir3fly · 29 Mar 2006 at 14:02

i just have 4 images fading into each other ... setup in a loop

paulsheff · 29 Mar 2006 at 14:17

You just need something like

Code:

if (_root.getBytesLoaded() == _root.getBytesTotal()) {
    nextScene();
} else {
    gotoAndPlay(1);
}

to hold the player at your first scene while the whole mov loads.

Fir3fly · 29 Mar 2006 at 14:41

and where do i place that coding at first frame?

paulsheff · 29 Mar 2006 at 14:51

Is your loop a movie clip? Basically you want to stick it on a frame in the timeline, maybe 5 frames in so it hits it over and over again until the condition is met.

Theres loads of preloaders you could borrow from places like http://www.flashkit.com

Fir3fly · 29 Mar 2006 at 15:20

stop();
onEnterFrame = function(){
if (_root._framesloaded == _root._totalframes){
delete onEnterFrame;
play();
}
}

that is what i had originally on the first frame....but it doesnt work...it doesnt wait till its fully downloaded to play. Anything wrong with that code?

Fir3fly · 31 Mar 2006 at 08:08

any1?

paulsheff · 31 Mar 2006 at 12:03

I'd need to see the file.

I haven't got MX 2004 but if you can backwards save it to just MX and stick it on http://www.yousendit.com/ I'll have a look at it.

Fir3fly · 3 Apr 2006 at 10:28

http://firefly.rar.gi/flash

heres the link with the swf and fla files

please take a look im sure its something stupid :s

PS - its the preloading.html that u need to look at

paulsheff · 3 Apr 2006 at 12:07

Are you loading the calypso.swf file into the preloader? I can't get either of your flash files to open unfortunately.

Fir3fly · 3 Apr 2006 at 13:08

hmm

both swf files should be working now...can u try again?

dont open the html files tho its not working for some reason but the swf ones are

Fir3fly · 4 Apr 2006 at 10:48

plz any1? im kinda desperate

Fir3fly · 6 Apr 2006 at 08:37