First, I'm somewhere between beginner and intermediate programmer/designer, so
obviously I can't get this one...
OK, here's my problem:
I need to put a movie clip which will say something like "Loading Flash movie"
and show the progress bar. Now, I do now how to make that (including progress
bar), but I do not know how to display it. Apparently, nothing is shown before
whole movie is downloaded, so how can I display just that loading clip, and
make Flash download the rest of the movie in the background?
Sorry for bad english!
Thanks in advance, any help is appriciated!

Here is a tutorial on how to make a preloader..

http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/beginner/Smooth_PreLoader/index.shtml

Hope this is helping you..

AL

Well, there is only one example in this tutorial, a little bit too difficult to
understand for beginners, but OK.

Anyway, can anyone explain to me how does Flash loads data? What if I have
some content in library that I never used in my Flash presentation? What if I
put some picture (which is in library) in 8th frame of the movie, will Flash
load it in 1st frame or in 8th? As I can understand, it loads it in the 1st
frame, so we're on the same question I asked before.

Whenever I do something similar to example from tutorial, it won't work! Flash
loads everything that's in the movie, and then shows the 1st frame. Of course,
the movie at that point is loaded completely (percentage > 99%), so the script
automatically skips preloader and shows the frame I specified.

What's the secret? Any other tutorial which will deeply explain some details,
rather than present one simple example?

Maybe preloader and the rest of the content needs to be on different layers?
In diferrent scenes? Maybe some scripting can tell Flash which content to load
before the rest of it?

Sorry for my stupidness! :)