Help could be nice?.... Preloading jpegs

[parker]

Ok, I am pretty knowledgeable with using flash/actionscript, but I have encountered something that I never learned about and I can't seem to find any information on it that is useful to me...

What I want to do is make a simple preloading animation and use it over and over every time I externally load a .jpg into a blank movie clip. I obviously cannot put it in the empty clip because it will be removed once the jpg starts to load.

SO how can I make a preloader and have it show up where the jpeg image is loading, without having to make an external swf with the preloader in it?


Thanks for the help!

Parker

[MikeS]

ello,

I use this method....

Have your swf on a level higher than the MC being loaded.  Have a stop on that mc,

I call the mc standby

using pixelogics preloader with more methods, one MM should have included, setCompletionHandler()  hurry hurry.......

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this.standBy._visible = false;
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  Preloader Bar Information Function //
function commence () {
   update.text = this.progPic.getPercentComplete () + "%  Completed";
}
////////Progress Bar Engage///////////////////////
function butEngage () {
   progPic.reset ();
   update.text = "";
   progPic.setLoadTarget (pic);
   barTrue ();
   progPic.setCompletionHandler ("loadingComplete");
}
function loadingComplete () {
   barFalse ();
   update.text = " Loading Complete ";
}
//////Progress Bar Show/////////////////////////////
function barTrue () {
   standBy._visible = true;
               //could add  standBy.gotoAndPlay(1);
   progPic.setDisplayText (true);
   progPic.setDisplayGraphics (true);
   progPic.setChangeHandler ("commence");
}
//////Progress Bar Hide///////////////////////////////////////////
function barFalse () {
   standBy._visible = false;
   progPic.setDisplayText (false);
   progPic.setDisplayGraphics (false);
}


There are many ways you could attack this to, attaching the mc, duplicating ect.  Definatly more than one way to get up a mountain....  The main idea is have in the mc on a higher level...plainly put..  then alpha, visible, removeMovieClip whatever...


Later on, Mike