Thursday, March 11, 2004
Preloading Components in Flash MX 2004 4:00 PM
I've been so busy with Community MX lately, I haven't had much time for blogging. However, I did want to mention that I wrote a CMX tutorial called "Preloading Components in Flash MX 2004 - Part 2." A follow-up to Joey Lott's tutorial, this series of videos shows you how to use the preloader movie clip from the Flash Video Gallery source files in your own Flash applications. In particular, it solves the problem of effectively preloading movies that contain V2 components and movie clips with linkage IDs. In essence, the movie clip included with the Flash Video Gallery is an uncompiled version of the ProgressBar component that ships with Flash MX 2004. The advantage of using this movie clip is that your preloader won't incur the 27K hit of the component.
The second video explains how to save the preloader to Flash's Common Libraries, so you can reuse it in other applications. If you're not a CMX subscriber, you can purchase the tutorial for $5 or sign up for a free 10-day trial.
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