Preloaders!

[MarkEmerson]

I have a very basic preloader on my site that just simply says loading and a basic animation.  

I want to put a more detailed intorduction onto the Preloader, my problem is that I want the main scene to be loaded automatically once the animation in the preloader is finished and not before.  However I also want to make sure that the Main Scene is not shown before it has finished loading.

What is the actionscript needed to do this?

Your advice is, as ever greatly apreciated.
Mark

[flashswami]

Best (because its so versatile) way I've found of doing this is to use a movieclip with an onClip event.

I did one here- http://www.dotdragnet.co.uk/index2.asp?action=02&cat=3&downloads=true (its called 'plug n play preloader')

That uses bytes loaded etc to display the total bytes, the bytes loaded and the percentage loaded. The beauty of doing it all on one mc is that it can be dropped in any frame- the go to condition simply goes to _currentframe+1 thus eliminating the need to specify a frame number or label. Download it and play about, tell me if it's any good.

[exshige]

is simple, just put the intro animation first and then follow by the preloader and then the main content. in this way, the preloader will only preload after the intro animation.