Trailing Numbers Preloader

Hi mulatto,

Chances are good you’ve set everything up in your project to export on Frame 1. When you do that, you’re telling Flash to load those assets before it runs any code (including the preloader’s). Unchecking the Export on Frame 1 option on items in your library that don’t require it should help fix your problem.

You can read more about it in this article – http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/preloading/ (scroll down to the section titled “Loading Complications”)

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Glad to hear you were able to find a solution for yourself.

Hi gabyportilla!

The preloader sizes itself using stage dimensions, but since the SWF you’re using it for is being loaded in externally, it doesn’t have a reference to the stage until it’s actually added to the container SWF ’s stage. That is to say, your external SWF starts running once it’s loaded. That means the preloader is started up. The preloader looks for the stage, but doesn’t find it because the SWF hasn’t been added to the display list of the container SWF yet.

To account for this, you could try adding the loader object for the external SWF to the stage before you make the call to load(). Another option would be to add code to your external SWF so that the preloader doesn’t start running until the SWF is added to the stage (using an event listener for the ADDED _TO_STAGE event).

There may or may not be other factors at play here that could create a similar error, such as the preloader stopping the timeline of the SWF , and would depend on your particular implementation.

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Thank you very much! I’m going to try what you say right away. It sounds definitely like the solution to this issue.

Great code and nice design.

Again thanks for your help and reply.