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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:44 am   Reply with quote
I'm not sure how to do this, because the preloader won't work unless I name the first and last frames. How do I go about this?
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:29 am   Reply with quote
I've worked a bit with Photoshop CS3, and I believe that you have to save, each individual frame, as a picture. It takes a bit to do, but it gets the job done. Also, I'll try to explore Photoshop CS3 a bit more, and see if there is another way around this.
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:59 pm   Reply with quote
Jr. Troopa wrote:
I've worked a bit with Photoshop CS3, and I believe that you have to save, each individual frame, as a picture. It takes a bit to do, but it gets the job done. Also, I'll try to explore Photoshop CS3 a bit more, and see if there is another way around this.
It's Flash, not Photoshop.
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 4:50 pm   Reply with quote
Ah, sorry about that. I read the title wrong. I'll look into this issue in Flash CS3 and do some exploring and see what I can find.

Did the help section help at all, or give any hints?
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PostPosted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:39 pm   Reply with quote
Jr. Troopa wrote:
Ah, sorry about that. I read the title wrong. I'll look into this issue in Flash CS3 and do some exploring and see what I can find.

Did the help section help at all, or give any hints?
It's pretty useless. D:
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PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:35 pm   Reply with quote
So why do you need to name the frames? Can you just give the frame number, or am I thinking of something different?
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PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:46 pm   Reply with quote
Merlink wrote:
So why do you need to name the frames? Can you just give the frame number, or am I thinking of something different?
Well, since every scene each has its own frame 1, then if I entered it into the preloader code, it would just start the preloader over again. D:
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PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:57 pm   Reply with quote
Geno wrote:
Merlink wrote:
So why do you need to name the frames? Can you just give the frame number, or am I thinking of something different?
Well, since every scene each has its own frame 1, then if I entered it into the preloader code, it would just start the preloader over again. D:

You know you can enter the scene number too? I believe it's like this:
Code:
gotoAndPlay("Scene1",1);

Unless, of course, I'm think of the wrong thing.
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PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2008 10:08 pm   Reply with quote
Ok, so you probably want to put an instance name on a frame, yes?

Ok, so click the frame you want/need, open the properties tab (if you can't find it, press Ctrl + F3) and look for a box with the text "Frame Label" in it. Put what you want to call it, say you call it "Geno Whirl".

So, you put this code on to a button

Code:
on (release){
_root.gotoAndPlay("Geno Whirl");
}


NOTE: This is on memory, and not tested.

I'll explain the code too:
on (release) is an event listener, it basically senses things, this particular one senses a release of the mouse on a button.

_root means that you are calling upon the main timeline, and nothing else.

gotoAndPlay is self explanitory

("Geno Whirl") tells Flash that you are looking for the field in the parenthesis. The quotes tell it that it is an instance name used at some point in the document.

Hope it helps!
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PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2008 10:14 pm   Reply with quote
Goomba wrote:
Ok, so you probably want to put an instance name on a frame, yes?

Ok, so click the frame you want/need, open the properties tab (if you can't find it, press Ctrl + F3) and look for a box with the text "Frame Label" in it. Put what you want to call it, say you call it "Geno Whirl".

So, you put this code on to a button

Code:
on (release){
_root.gotoAndPlay("Geno Whirl");
}


NOTE: This is on memory, and not tested.

I'll explain the code too:
on (release) is an event listener, it basically senses things, this particular one senses a release of the mouse on a button.

_root means that you are calling upon the main timeline, and nothing else.

gotoAndPlay is self explanitory

("Geno Whirl") tells Flash that you are looking for the field in the parenthesis. The quotes tell it that it is an instance name used at some point in the document.

Hope it helps!
Ah, thanks!

This is just the explanation I needed. Smile

Thank you also, Merlink.
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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 7:49 am   Reply with quote
Eh, well, I'm trying to make it so that as soon as it's done loading it plays, but I get this error:

1087: Syntax error: extra characters found after end of program.

But I copied it exactly... D:

I dun get it.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:56 am   Reply with quote
DAMN IT! I've tried everything!

It just WON'T work!

I got the message again just now.

I followed the instructions here to the dot:

http://www.smartwebby.com/Flash/Flash_simple_preloader.asp

And still NOTHING WORKS!

Apparently there's something wrong with the line: ifFrameLoaded ("end") {

That doesn't make sense because the last frame in the animation (so far) is called end, and it refuses to work.

I'm not working on my animation until the preloader works 100% flawlessly.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 2:46 pm   Reply with quote
A preloader in CS3 requires a long line of code. Here's what I found on Yahoo Answers:

Code:
stop();
function onPreloaderOut() {
preloader_mc.removeEventListener("onP...
gotoAndStop("SITE");
}

preloader_mc.addEventListener("onPrelo...

preloader_mc.startPreload(this);

and as file is

class Preloader extends MovieClip{

private var target_mc:MovieClip;
private var progress_mc:MovieClip;
private var pct_str:String;

private var dispatchEvent:Function;
public var addEventListener:Function;
public var removeEventListener:Function;

function Preloader(){
mx.events.EventDispatcher.initialize...
}

public function startPreload(t:MovieClip){
target_mc = t;

this.gotoAndPlay("IN");
}

private function onAnimateIn(){
this.stop();

this.onEnterFrame = this.checkLoadProgress;
}

private function checkLoadProgress(){
var bl = target_mc.getBytesLoaded();
var bt = target_mc.getBytesTotal();

var pct = bl/bt;

var cf = progress_mc._currentframe;
var tf = progress_mc._totalframes;

var f = Math.ceil(tf * pct);

if(f > cf){
progress_mc.play();
}else{
progress_mc.stop();
}

this.pct_str = (Math.round(cf/tf * 100)).toString();

if(bt > 20 && bl == bt && cf == tf && progress_mc){
onPreloadComplete();
}
}

private function onPreloadComplete(){
this.onEnterFrame = null;

this.gotoAndPlay("OUT");
}


private function onAnimateOut(){
this.stop();

dispatchEvent({target:this, type:'onPreloaderOut'});
}
}


Yes, this is the CS3 preloader code.

Last edited by Pfargtl on Wed May 21, 2008 8:04 pm; edited 3 times in total
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:55 pm   Reply with quote
Shit... D:

Do I have to enter anything into that? Because I don't know where to start that...

And why would they make it harder to use the newest version? Lame. D:

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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:32 pm   Reply with quote
That was the longest preloader code I have ever seen.
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