Comments on: The Last Preloader You’ll Ever Need, Really

By: Press Play On Tape…

Press Play On Tape… — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:57:55 +0000

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Why you should use Flex and Flash Together | Internet Superstars — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:35:14 +0000

[...] you’ll need to code a new preloader. Urban Squall has the best article I’ve found to do this. They’ve been kind enough to provide you [...]

By: brunushky

brunushky — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:12:42 +0000

Just for for people asking about “-frame start Main”, this options is available if you create your proyect with the preload option… In FD3 just creat a new “AS3 project with preloader”… I guest that this option is there since version FD2… anyway you can add it by hand, like some guys did here.

Greetings

By: lukewarmsteak

lukewarmsteak — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:41:54 +0000

so you went from not needing to use flex in your first example… to now needing to use flash develop in your second?? what gives i’m just using plain old AS3 here…

By: urbansquall

urbansquall — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:14:52 +0000

That is like the opposite of what should happen. Want to give us a URL we can look at?

By: iCe

iCe — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:32:36 +0000

hey guys, thanks for the nice tutorial, seems to be the only working one for as projects.

I still didnt get it to fully work. When I run my application in flex the preloader works fine, but on the webserver it simply doenst appear.. any hints?!

By: dVyper

dVyper — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:08:10 +0000

An excellent set of classes. This has helped me enormously! Thank you very much!

It should be added in the article that the compiler option '-frame start [main class]' needs to be included when using Flex Builder to make an AS3 project for this to work.

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By: Tayfun

Tayfun — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:54:05 +0000

Thanks, I've been searching so long for a decent tutorial. This helps alot.

Also had to add the compiler-option, which is added automatically btw., if you open an AS3 Project with Preloader in FD 3.

By: jgoware

jgoware — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:00:09 +0000

YES! Worked like a charm after I added “-frame start Main” to the compiler options. So elegant and easy to use. Thanks for sharing the code!