flash (macromedia): I had a nice Flash GUI with a few XML-Connectors, a few DataSets and a few
DataGrids... everything worked fine, but the Flash file size became 250Kb which
moved me to make a preloader.

I made a new Scene for this preloader and to make the loader work as it
should, I set the Export frame for classes to frame 3 in the "Publish Settings"
(frame 1 and 2 are for the preloader). I also changed all the components in my
main scene library, I unchecked all the Export in first frame options in the
"Linkage settings".

Now... everything seemed to be working well, the DataGrids are displayed
correctly with all the modifications and settings I had made... so I guess that
means that the movie followed the timeline correctly and loaded all the
ActionScript classes correctly at frame 3.

BUT... when triggering the data to be collected (which worked great before I
started using the preloader it is NOT displayed at all. In the preview function
I can see (when pressing the trigger) that the XML file is beeing collected
correctly but after that nothing happens.
I cannot see where it goes wrong, it seems to be collected correctly and the
DataGrid looks fine (except for the fact that has no content).

I have tried loads of things, but I simply cannot get it working again... did
I miss something?

Any help would be appreciated, thx in advance.

I'm affraid that is not possible, not only do I not have an exact backup from
when I started working on the preloader... but it is also not desireable to
have seperate files in my situation, don't ask me why ;).

But this is a really nasty situation... perhaps getting rid of the components
and manually actionscripting the entire thing but that will take me ages since
I don't even know where to start.

The only option is getting it to work again WITH the preloader and WITH
components :(, and I just can't get it working.

So if it loads the XML and your grid is there, this means the problem can only
be in two places: the XMLconnector onLoadComplete or whatever that's called, or
the pipe between XMLconnector, DataSet and DataGrid. I'd suspect the later. Did
you check in the debugger, whether your dataSet is initialized as well?

No-one?