Free Flash Preloader component provides an easy way to add a nice visual loading indicatior when loading images or external swf files.
You may skin the preloader component and display any flash animation while loading your data.
It is extremely simple to use. Just place an instance of preloader component on the stage:
And set the parameters:
The parameters are:
skinSwf - linkage identifier of any animation symbol in library you would like to be played while loading the source. That is a skin for your preloader component.
skinType - when animation movie identifier is set in ’skinSwf’ parameter you may choose whether this animation will be played in ‘progressive’ or ‘cyclic’ mode.
- ‘progressive‘ mode plays skinSwf animation depending on the progress of loaded movie - meaning skinSwf animation’s current frame depends on the percentage of loaded source movie. In this mode your flash preloader component will function as a progress bar.
- ‘cyclic’ mode just plays skinSwf animation in a loop while source movie or image is loaded. This mode of preloader tells users that some activity is happening in flash document, but doesn’t inform about its progress and when loading is going to be finished.
source - the path to the file of image or swf to load. Our flash preloader component takes care of loading the files for you. It’s only needed to specify where this file is located. Moreover, a batch of events got fired to inform you about loading status. We will update the documentation soon
target - name of target movieclip, which will be replaced with loaded image or swf specified in source attribute filed. If it’s not specified, preloader component creates a target movieclip at the highest depth of _root scope. Loaded source is placed in the coordinates of the preloader.
You may take a look at preloader component in action
Soon, we plan to publish a collection of nice skins for preloader progress indication.
Download:
flash-preloader-component.zip (6.7 KB, 1,114 Downloads) FDWPreloader-sample-fla.zip (39.9 KB, 915 Downloads)
I am really impressed by your preloader. It is very easy to use and easy to set up.
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Only I had to copy paste from your movie into a new one, because direct loading from the file did not work. also it does not resize the image to the placeholder size (but hell, just make sure the images are the correct size
The best thing is, it works with Flashlite! Superb.
I only wanted to ask you, does it unload the images when moved to another place in the frame or is there a way to force the unload. as I am working with flashlite I need to keep the resources low.
Cheers!
@rene,
Glad to hear you like the preloader. It doesn’t unload the images when going to the next frame. But you can force to unload the images simply using unloadMovie method. If you pass target movieclip to the preloader then unloadMovie(your_target_mc) should unload it nicely. If you let preloader to create a target automatically, then you should call it this way:
unloadMovie(your_preloader_instance_name.preloader_target);
‘preloader_target’ is a movie clip which is automatically created if no target mc is specified.
Soon preloader will be updated and unload() and parameters for loaded image/clip sizing will be added. Stay in touch and get it soon.