Thank you for a very good tutorial. I’ve got some problems with loading an external swf instead of the picture. I’ve tried to load it with this code

stop();

this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onProgress);
this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);

function onProgress(e:ProgressEvent):void {
var loaded:Number = e.target.bytesLoaded;
var total:Number = e.target.bytesTotal;
var pct:Number = loaded/total;
loader_mc.scaleX = pct;
loaded_txt.text = “Loading… ” + (Math.round(pct * 100)) + “%”;
}

function onComplete(e:Event):void {
nextFrame();
var request:URLRequest = newURLRequest(”as3test.swf”);
var sida:Loader = new Loader();
sida.load(request);
addChild(sida);

}

but then the preloaders loading process gets interrupted. And I get this error message;

Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2036: Load Never Completed.

Any suggestions on how to get past this?

regards Micke

Just add an scene on top of everything (with shift+f2 you enter the scene panel) and in that scene create the pre-loader.

Elliot

stop();
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.Event;

this.addEventListener(”enterFrame”,onEnterFrame);
function onEnterFrame(e:Event){

loader_mc.scaleX = (this.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded/this.loaderInfo.bytesTotal);
loaded_txt.text = “Loading… ” + (Math.round((this.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded/this.loaderInfo.bytesTotal)*100)) + “%”;

if(this.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded == this.loaderInfo.bytesTotal){
gotoAndPlay(2);
this.removeEventListener(”enterFrame”,onEnterFrame);
}
}

I’m going to look for a solution. Thank you.

thanks again

I hope that helps.

Also, if you want to have more than a 2 frame flash movie then in your second frame create a new action that simply says:

play();

You told it to stop in the first frame, now you have to tell it to play again in the second! Waaalaa, hopefully this will keep others from experiencing the struggles I went through when following this tutorial!

Good work though, it was a great help in getting me started Craig!