Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / September 2005

I'm a bit confused by your question, but yes, you should have one routine that
loads the jpgs and one preloader to display the load status.

To do this, make a movieclip that will show the percentage. You can visualize
this with any of the movieclip properties where 100 is the max value (_xscale,
_yscale, _alpha). The most common, of course, is _xscale. Assuming you have a
movieclip named 'bar_mc' with some graphic inside (rectangular shape works
best) and an empty movieclip named 'stub_mc' to load the jpg into, here's a
quick function that you can use:

function loadJPG(mc:MovieClip, jpgPath:String):Void {
    loadMovie(jpgPath, mc);
    bar_mc._visible=true;
    onEnterFrame = function () {
        var bl = mc.getBytesLoaded();
        var bt = mc.getBytesTotal();
        if (bl == bt && bt>1000) {
            bar_mc._visible=false;
            delete this.onEnterFrame;
        } else {
            bar_mc._xscale = bl/bt*100;
        }
    };
}

To call it, do something like this:

loadJPG(stub_mc,"myFile.jpg");

Where would you place this code? Inside the stub_mc on the first frame? Also, to call it where do you put that code?

thank you.