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Categories The Ultimate Slide Show MX
Author: Joachim Schnier | Website: http://www.cancerinform.net/ |

 
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The Preloader

Most users still have modems so we have to preload the slides to have them ready when buttons are pushed. We make a preload function here

//function to preload slides
function loadAll(firstSlide,lastSlide,slideName,introSlide){
 for (j=1;j<=lastSlide;j++) {
//use duplicateMovieClip here instaed of createEmptyMovieClip
 duplicateMovieClip (_root.slideHolder, "pic_"+j, j);
//make the slides invisible not to see the loading
 setProperty ("pic_"+j, _alpha, (0));
 loadMovie(slideName+j+".jpg","pic_"+j);
//load slides into slideholder_1 and make it invisible not to see the loading
 loadMovie(slideName+j+".jpg","slideHolder_1");
setProperty("slideHolder_1",_alpha, (0));
//here we load an introduction slide
 loadMovie(introSlide,"slideHolder");
 }
}
To monitor the loading we attach the following script to slideHolder_1.
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
 if(this._url != _root._url && !loaded) {
 // calculate size of pics in kilobytes
 var kilobytes = Math.ceil(this.getBytesTotal()/1024);
 // calculate percent loaded
 var percentLoaded = Math.ceil((this.getBytesLoaded()/this.getBytesTotal()) * 100);
 // show loading message
 _root.percentOutput = "loading " + percentLoaded + "% of " + kilobytes + "k";
 //show text loading slides
 _root.loadText.gotoAndPlay("play");
 if(percentLoaded == 100){
 //loading terminated
 loaded = true;
 _root.percentOutput = "Ready";
 _root.loadText.gotoAndStop("stop");
 }
 }
}

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Added: : 2002-06-29
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