preloading a mc

How do you do it?

I have been trying to use similiar to the following as

}totalBytes = Math.round(getBytesTotal() / 1024);
loadedBytes = Math.round(getBytesLoaded() / 1024);
percentDone = Math.round((loadedBytes / totalBytes) * 100);
if (_root._framesloaded >= _root._totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay("start");
}


onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_xscale = _root.percentDone;
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

I have been changing the }_root{ to }this.container.{ etc...

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks

Hi, its a little hard to tell what you mean exactly. I'm going to guess your tying to preload your main movie. Last time I made a preloader I used two scenes. Looks like your doing it off a movie clip that may be in the root of the main scene. Thats a nice idea.

onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
totalBytes = Math.round(getBytesTotal() / 1024);
loadedBytes = Math.round(getBytesLoaded() / 1024);
percentDone = Math.round((loadedBytes / totalBytes) * 100);
if (percentDone >= 95)
{
gotoAndPlay("start");
}
}

That should work depending on your implementation.

Hi Tann
Sorry for not explaining properly so what i'm doing is loading my main scene and I want to load each individual mc seperately.

So instead of waiting for a whole 200kb flash movie to load you only have to wait for each 10-20kb Movieclip. But I want those small clips to preload with some kind of counter.

Its not so much which maths I use wether it be time, loaded bytes etc, none of them work becuase when I use the AS above it gotoPlays frame 1 from my Main movie line and not from the movieclip.

Please Help,

Thanks Ian

Hi,

onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
totalBytes = Math.round(getBytesTotal() / 1024);
loadedBytes = Math.round(getBytesLoaded() / 1024);
percentDone = Math.round((loadedBytes / totalBytes) * 100);
if (percentDone >= 95)
{
this.gotoAndPlay("start");
}
}

I think that should do it now.

Here is the exact AS that i am using!

I have tried with the all the instances of .this changed to .this.container. which were originally _root

I have tried it with no .this exept on the gotoAndPlay

I had the same preloader on my main movie, so I changed the instance name of the preloader bar and that did not work so I removed the preloader from my main movie altogether. Still no joy.

I supected it has something to do with onClipEvent (enterFrame) Maybe its particular to the main movie.

What the result is my main movie loads and plays to the point where I want it Stop and the mc stops on frame 1.

Whats displaying on frame 1 on the mc is
Frames loaded 1
Frames Total 1
Bytes loaded 293 (20kb on disk sized file)
Bytes Total 293

all the rest are o

with 100% load

I will have dozens of mc to load throughout the site and would lrealy like this to work, though the end result of the preloader will be a slimmed version.


onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this.hcpreloader.bar._xscale = siteLoaded;
siteLoaded = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100);
// bytes
total_bytes = this.getBytesTotal();
loaded_bytes = this.getBytesLoaded();
remaining_bytes = total_bytes-loaded_bytes;
// frames
frame_loaded = this._framesloaded;
frame_total = this._totalframes;
// kilo bytes
totalkb = int(total_bytes/1024) add "KB";
loadedkb = int(loaded_bytes/1024) add "KB";
remaining_kb = int(remaining_bytes/1024);
remainingkb = int(remaining_kb) add "KB";
percent_done = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100) add "%";
// time
time = getTimer()/1000;
// speed
speed = loaded_bytes/time;
bits = speed/1024;
Kbps = Math.round(bits*10)/10 add "KB/S";
// time remaining
kbyteCounter = (total_bytes-loaded_bytes)/1024;
loadRate = (loaded_bytes/1024)/time;
timeCounter = kbyteCounter/loadRate;
minutes = Math.floor(timeCounter/60);
seconds = Math.round((timeCounter/60-minutes)*60);
time_remaining = minutes+" min "+seconds+" sec";
// timeelapsed
minute = Math.floor(time/60);
second = Math.round((time/60-minute)*60);
time_elapsed = minute+" min "+second+" sec";
if (total_bytes == loaded_bytes) {
this.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

this is on the bar

onClipEvent (load) {
this._xscale = "0";
}

Hi, that all seems ok to me. Can you make a snippet of your site. Say make a copy of the flash file and then remove everything except one clip etc...you know so that in the end there is just the preloader and a clip you want it to work with.

Basically can you post something here or send it to me. I'll take a look and get back to you tommorow.

Thankyou Tann

Here is the main (home nag..fla)scene and the its home content.fla

Thankyou veru much Ian