Comments on: New video tutorial on ActionScript 3 preloading

By: chris

chris — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:39:58 +0000

I’m using this for preloading an swf with papervision in it. I keep getting:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at something()

By: Happy

Happy — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:32:41 +0000

thank you Kirk, you fixed my problem

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:57:49 +0000

I use this preloader quite a bit and have run into a bug. If you try to preload an .swf with a filename that contains more than one “-” it will fail. Example: “myMainFile.swf” and “my-MainFile.swf” work, but “my-Main-File.swf” does not. Try it out and see for yourself.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:32:10 +0000

Thanks 90 for your fix! I will try that. nvm on my post 94

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:24:26 +0000

I am trying this preloader and when I export as swf it works fine and loads the swf but when I upload it to a webserver on firefox it just shows “100″ and on IE it says Infinity and does not load in the external swf. Both the preloader and the external swf are on the webserver. I have tried seeing if it was due to case sensitivity or anything but nothing is working. HELP PLEASE

By: Mick

Mick — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:47:32 +0000

Add me to the list of people who think comment #49 kicks ass! I had a preloader that was showering me with 2068 and 1009 errors for days, but it works fine now. Thanks, Kirk!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:18:36 +0000

This tutorial really helped, a lot! I was wondering how I could use this code and preload all the swf files on my site? I am putting together a web design portfolio now, so i could really use this on other site I am doing as well.

Thank you!

Thomas Bryant

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:53:39 +0000

Hi, does anyone know if it’s possible to make a external preloader that loads the main content outside of the preloaded .swf file and has the main content in a completely separate file?

I’m trying to achieve this because I’m want my flash preloader to load in a different div tag than my main content.

PLEASE any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Mike

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:23:29 +0000

I’m going to post the solution to my problem, just incase anyone has the same,

My preloader.swf and content.swf are in the same folder, so I assumed when published in it’s html wrapper preloader.swf loading path would be from the same folder it’s in.

However it actually take the path from where the swfObject is in the html,

so instead of:
l.load(new URLRequest(“content.swf”));

it’s:
l.load(new URLRequest(“assets/flash/content.swf”));

hope this helps anyone who is as novice as i am,

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:10:55 +0000

Hi, I’m having a similar problem to sean(post 81),
It all works perfect locally, then when it on my webserver,
it loads to 100%, a stops, Doesn’t move on to show the swf,

any help would be much appreciated,
thanks