Loading Site Problem

[Zoboda]

Hi
I have made a site and its about 1mb, when you open it the page will say
opening in the browser and wont show the site untill its fully loaded and then
theres no point in a preloader. Ive seen other flash sites that are bigger than
mine and they show right away, do i need to use two swf files? I have no idea
how to fix this

thanks in advance

[ladyluna]

Hi,
If you use a working preloader, this will not happen. One thing with
preloaders is that if you are linking to an swf rather than an html page, it
will not work properly. It also has to be coded properly. Without seeing the
site, I really don't know why the preloader is not working, but those are a
couple of solutions that have worked for me.
Luna

[tralfaz]

"Zoboda" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c5oe3g$h16$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi
> I have made a site and its about 1mb, when you open it the page will say
> opening in the browser and wont show the site untill its fully loaded and

then

> theres no point in a preloader. Ive seen other flash sites that are bigger

than

> mine and they show right away, do i need to use two swf files? I have no

idea

> how to fix this
>
> thanks in advance

Some things in your library like components and objects with linkage names
(not instance names, 'linkage' names) will be loaded before anything else,
even the preloader. There are possible two fixes:

1) avoid components and frame one linkage items in the library
or if you can't do that
2) use a preloader that is a separate swf. That preloader will load itself,
then display the loading progress of the main swf.

BTW, Next time you might save time by checking the forum archives to see if
your question has been asked before. It has been asked and answered many
times.
Just go to the actionscript or flash forum (not site design) and put
"preloader" into the search box.
tralfaz

[tralfaz]

"ladyluna" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c5p27t$hnf$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi,
> If you use a working preloader, this will not happen. One thing with
> preloaders is that if you are linking to an swf rather than an html page,

it

> will not work properly. It also has to be coded properly. Without seeing

the

> site, I really don't know why the preloader is not working, but those are

a

> couple of solutions that have worked for me.
> Luna

preloaders 'linking' to an html page?
tralfaz

[Zoboda]

thanks for your help, i usually check for similar questions by other people but
i havent used this forum in a while so i must have forgotten

I think I'm using a loader other than a preloader, i didnt know i could show
one .swf and it load another one in