Drag 'n Drop Preloader

This Preloader can be easily modified so you can implement it in any project that you have. It is totally resizable. Also being Drag ’n Drop you can do just what the name says. Drag it from the library and drop it on the first frame of your movie. All is set up! The preloader will do everything for you. When your site completes loading the preloader will take you to frame 2 (default frame, but you can change this in just one variable).

This is what you can change in the AS3 · Preloader · Drag ‘n Drop:

1. Color change of the bar
2. Color change of the stripes
3. Color change of the outside text
4. Show/Hide inside bar text
5. Show/Hide outside bar text
6. Show/Hide reflection
7. Show/Hide shadow
8. Control the shadows level of transparency
9. Control the reflection level of transparency
10. Control the velocity of the turning stripes
11. Choose in to what frame to go after load is complete

This can all be done with ease. Just modify the variables that are on top of the actionsctipt (the actionscript is well commented so that you know what everything does).

The font used is Arial, but you can change to whatever you want of course. Hope you like it.

UPDATE v1.1 – 15/07/09

• Fixed a bug that was making the preloader to fail sometimes in IE6
• Decide wether to use or not the final animation
• Change the fading velocity at the end of the preload
• Change the x and y position of the final animation(where the bar moves)
• Show or hide the shine reflection on the bar itself.

NOTE

I’ve discovered that some clients are having trouble with the preloader stoping in frame 2 and not continue playing their movie. This is because the preloader was made to play a movieclip that contained your animation on frame 2, if you prefer to put your animation in the main timeline after the preloader, you have to do a small change in the code. The small change is made in the function “finalAnim”. If you reach into the situation that your project preloads and then stops at frame 2 just substitute this line: MovieClip(this.parent.parent).gotoAndStop(gotoFrame); by this :
MovieClip(this.parent.parent).gotoAndPlay(gotoFrame);

Thanks