Question

How Do I Build A Preloader In Flash CS3

Answer 1

answer:When you say CS3 I’m assuming you’re talking about using ActionScript 3. Its never going to be as “easy” as AS2 in terms of how the mechanics work. The trade-off is that its so much better to program complex apps in. Without writing a full-blown tutorial, here’s the basics: Your loader movie will need to to make a new Loader object and request the movie you want to load in. The Loader class is just a proxy class for display objects you can load externally (SWF, JPG, PNG). The code will look something like this: (sorry there’s no block code formatting on here) package { import flash.display.Loader; import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.net.URLRequest; class Example extends Sprite { public function Example() { var loader:Loader [equal] new Loader(); loader.load(new URLRequest(‘path/to/target.swf’)); addChild(loader); } } } That is the simplest way to do it. The class we defined here is your application class. However, you’ll probably want to listen for progress events to maybe show a load bar or something. But that’s going beyond ”very basic”. AS3 Reference Documents