Help with preloader for Simple Photo Gallery 2.0

[Brendon]

Hi Guys,

I have been trying to understand and modify the "simple photo gallery 2" which I found on Flash DB. I have made some major changes, like cross-fading instead of blur, and added thumbnail selection (not too successfully I must admit), and now I am trying to add a preloader function for each new photo.
Can anyone help me with this topic as my knowledge of classes and more advanced as 2.0 is very limited? I can't seem to figure out how to integrate the preloader into the existing classes or AS files.

http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/simplegallery/

Thanks.
Brendon

[papachan]

in fotogallery.as you have the MovieClipLoader object.
so you can add a private method there...
like this one:

        private var preload_mc:MovieClip // a movieclip on the movieclip you need to instance it before use it

private function onLoadProgress (target:MovieClip, bytesLoaded:Number, bytesTotal:Number) {

target._visible = false // if you want your image invisible

var p:Number = Math.round(bytesLoaded/bytesTotal*100);

preload_mc.percent_txt.text = (String(p).substr(1)==undefined)? "0"+p : p;

preload_mc.percent_txt.text += " %"

preload_mc.bar._xscale = p;// a bar progress

}

i hope it help you !

[Brendon]

Thanks alot Papachan! That worked perfectly. I am really stoked!

All I need to do now is improve the way my thumbnails intercept the slideshow as there is a delay of one whole slide plus the loading times, after the user clicks the thumbnails and before they see the slide they selected. I will give it my best shot first, but I might have to bug you again later, if you don't mind.

Take care.
Brendon