Re: [Swftools-common] Preloading Images.

[Chris Pugh]

If you'll forgive me saying so Robert,  unnecessarily complcated!!  ;o)
You also need to watch your references.  Hope the snippet below helps
guide you in the rigth direction..

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.flash filename="001v3.swf" bbox=300x200 version=10 fps=60 compress
  .font tahoma "fonts/tahoma.ttf"
  .box placeholder color=blue height=100 width=100 fill=blue
  .edittext etext text="--" color=white font=tahoma size=10pt width=40 height=22

.sprite images
  .put placeholder x=0 y=0
  .action:
    this.loadMovie("a.jpg");
  .end
.end
.action:
       this.attachMovie("images","i",1);
        i._height=10;
        i._width=10;
        i._x=0;
        i._y=0;
        var v=i.getBytesLoaded();
//  (or)   var v=i.getBytesTotal();
//  (or)   var v=i._framesloaded;

        etext.text=v.toString();
.end
   .put etext x=120 y=120

.end

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Regards,


Chris.

2009/2/12 Richard Anderson <address@hidden>:
> Greetings, all.
>
> I'm writing what is essentially a fancy slide show using SWFC.  On load,
> the slideshow requests a list of images using loadVariables.  The
> response to this request ends with "eof=true" so I can tell when it's
> done loading.I've got a preload screen which waits for this request to
> finish and then replaces its own onEnterFrame with a function that
> *should* be waiting for all of the images to preload.  Unfortunately,
> I've had no luck with getBytesLoaded() and getBytesTotal().
>
> I don't need a progress bar, and if there's a better way to go about
> this, I'm open to it.
>
> Here's a code snippet:
>    .sprite loader
>        .frame 1
>            .put loading_animation pin=center x=360 y=203
>        .frame 13
>            .change loading_animation rotate=330
>
>        .action:
>            this.onEnterFrame=function()
>            {
>                if (_root.eof == "true" && this.ranonce==undefined)
>                {
>                    // To make sure this doesn't get run twice if it
> takes longer than one frame to finish everything.
>                    this.ranonce=true;
>
>                    // Some housekeeping stuff here.
>
>                    _root.createEmptyMovieClip("holder", 2);
>                    _root.holder._visible = false;
>
>                   // Sets this.toload to an array of the following form:
>                   // ["/path/to/image.jpg","/path/to/image.jpg",...]
>                   this.toload = _root.getImagesToLoad();
>
>                    this.onEnterFrame=function()
>                    {
>                        next = false;
>
>                        if (this.loadindex == undefined)
>                        {
>                            this.loadindex = 0;
>                            next = true;
>                        }
>                        else
>                        {
>                            loaded = _root.holder.getBytesLoaded();
>                            total = _root.holder.getBytesTotal();
>                            if (total > 0 && loaded == total && loaded
> != undefined && total != undefined)
>                            {
>                                this.loadindex++;
>                                next = true;
>                            };
>                        };
>
>                        if (next)
>                        {
>                            if (this.loadindex > this.toload.length-1)
>                            {
>                                // Add controls, the slide movie clip,
> start the slideshow playing, etc...
>                                this.stop();
>                                this._visible = false;
>                                delete this.onEnterFrame;
>                                return;
>                            };
>
>                            loadMovie(this.toload[this.loadindex],
> _root.holder);
>                        };
>                    };
>                };
>            };
>        .end
>    .end
>
> Everything I've been able to test works beautifully except for
> _root.holder.getBytesLoaded() and _root.holder.getBytesTotal().  Both of
> them always return zero.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.  I'm a huge fan of this project.  I've
> been looking for something like this for years, and haven't found it
> until now.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>