Is there anyway to monitor the loading of an swf into a screen (Form) using a
custom progress bar.

It seems odd that the screens class inerits all the events of the Loader class
(complete and progress). However it does not seem to inherit the properties
bytesTotal and bytesLoaded. This makes it really hard to monitor the loading of
content into a screen (Form) I've also tried using getBytesLoaded and
getBytesTotal but this dosent work either.

Screens are a really good idea but they are very hard to understand. (I dont
even want to think about the registration issues). I really think macromedia
should publish an INDEPTH tutorial clearly detailing how to use every aspect of
screens in real world projects. (Think 56k modem). If they don't people will
simply not use them. I've given them a go several times and for one reason or
another had to go back to the good old time line.

Come on macromedia give us a hand here. Not even Colin Moocks new book is
going to cover screens. If he can't figure them out what chance do the rest of
us have?

It's probably not the answer you want but the only way I can see to do this is
to make everything on each screen a movie clip with an instance name and then
you will be able to getBytesLoaded and getBytesTotal for the clips. It does not
seem possible to get the bytes for the screen itself even though it is
correctly targeted.

The thing is I'm loading swf files into the screen. (I might add, this is
something that macromedia encorage) There has to be a way of monitoring the
progress. A quick and dirty work around would be to place a loader on the
screen but this just seems really clunky and if I do that, it gets tricky to
control the screen events for transitions etc.

Come on macromedia the clocks ticking.

Your right. You can do this but it just seems wrong. I find it hard to believe
that although the screen class inherits all the events of the Loader class it
is not possible to do something as simple as a progress bar.