These preloaders build on the basic versions to give them a bit more functionality, style, and polish.

Graphic loader

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Converting the auto pause loader to give a progress bar by scaling a box to match the download percent. Very minimal conversion.

Basic animation loader

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Now we’ll get the time line involved in the loader. This is nothing more than an animating graphic that loops while there is something to load.

Complete animating loader

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This adds a small amount of ActionScript code that makes sure your animation finishes before showing the downloaded content.

Progress loader

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We take the tweened animation and drive it from the percent loaded. Any animation that you can create can be driven by this type of loader.

Partial preloader

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• Project ZIP (1.7 MB)

This modifies the progress loader so that a percentage of the file is preloaded before playing the file. Great for audio or video files. You let enough of the file download at the start and by the end of playing the media, the visitors computer has finished loading the whole file.

Forcing the percent loader to play

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We modify the percent loader to play through once, quickly, instead of flashing when the file is already in your browser’s cache. Slow enough to be consistent; quick enough to not be annoying.

Forcing the keyframed loader to play

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This loader works with your keyframed loading animation (driven from the percent loaded), and sets a maximum number of frames we can jump when playing the loader animation.

Technical loader

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• Project ZIP (1.32 MB)

If your Flash movie has sections of content (like you load some graphics, text, an image, then some audio), this loader will tell the site visitor what you are doing while the file is loading.

External image loader

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• Project ZIP (1.1 MB)

We make an image browser that loads external images into a container movie clip. There is a loader for the browser (reusing ideas from earlier loaders) and a second loader for tracking the progress of loading the external JPG images.