Hi,
i just want to use my preloader for preloading dynamically loaded jpgs, but i can´t get it running!

There are severall movieclips in my scene, for exsample: One for buttons, one for a preloader and one as a target for the jpgs. If you press a button the according jpg is loading in the target mc (loadMovie).
So far everything works fine, but...

...now i want to check the loading status of the jpg using my preloader (nested in another movieclip) with a bar and percentage-display and so on.

This step did not work and i don´t know why. After spending hours of unsuccessfully searching in the web i still hope there will be someone who knows a solution for this matter!

Plz help me!
...also feel free to contact me via icq: 41057045
Thanks ahead!

[Brad-J]

ohara,
put something to this effect on the movie clip that is for your bar that is going to scale:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
  this._xscale = (_root.photoHolder.getBytesLoaded()/_root.photoHolder.getBytesTotal())*100;
	if (this._xscale == 100) {
		this._visible = false;
	} else {
		this._visible = true;
	}
}

where photoholder is the name of the movie clip that is holding your jpgs. that should get you started.

-brad

[ohara]

...but i have to explain my problem in more detail!

My preloader works fine when i use it in the first frame of a movieclip.
The code for it is:

perc = Math.round((_root.getBytesLoaded()/_root.getBytesTotal())*100);
xperc = perc/100;
barlength = 120;
if ((perc == 100) and (bar._width == barlength)) {
gotoAndPlay(4);
//at this frame the bar fades out and _root is going to the next frame
} else {
nperc = perc+"%";
bar._width = barlength*xperc;
bar._x = -60+(bar._width/2);
}

Because the bar and another small effekt (which is playing while preloading) are allready loaded for the root-scene, i wanted to use them for preloading the jpgs too. I duplicated and placed them in another movieclip with the path of the imageholder-MC in the actionscript (in this case (_root.imageholder.getBytesLoaded()/_root.imageholder.getBytesTotal()) )
You can see the result on: www.digitailor.de/test (in the supmenue 3DArtwork/highres)
At the first time i thought that it did not work, because the new loaded jpg resets all settings of the imageholder-Mc and consequently my path would be wrong. Therefor i tried to use a variable path like this:
for (i = 1; i<10, i++){
(_parent["myImageName"+i+".jpg"].getBytesLoaded()/_parent["myImageName"+i+".jpg"].getBytesTotal())......

Because i am not very familiar with programming and new to flash i tried different spellings without success. Do you know if it´s generally possible to preload a jpg from within another MC?

[ohara]

Ok, ignore my last post and the theory of a path-problem! I used the onClipEvent (enterFrame) handler and it works! Thanks a lot to BradJ for that hint!

For all who want to use a certain bar for preloading dynamically loaded jpgs or movies, this may will help:

1. Use the onClipEvent(enterFrame) for that matter. For more information about that look at: http://news.flashguru.co.uk/?aid=000044


2. Exsample Code:
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
perc = Math.round((_root.MCimageholder.getBytesLoaded()/_root.MCimageholder.getBytesTotal())*100);
xperc = perc/100;
barlength = 120;
if ((perc == 100) and (this._width == barlength)) {
this._visible = false;
} else {
nperc = perc+"%";
this._visible = true;
this._width = barlength*xperc;
this._x = -60+(this._width/2);
}
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
happyPreloading,

ohara