flash actionscript: I know this is old school, and I'm actually embarassed to have to come to the
boards with a preloader issue, but.....
I just recently switched over to F8 and have built a movie that is huge. It
contains a ton of embedded fonts. I've built
a zillion preloaders, but have never run into this situation. I've put my
normal AS in the frames to test for bytesloaded, ect.
But when I run the movie, using the bandwidth profiler, it shows that it's
preloading the entire movie from "Frame 0"?? and preloads the entire thing
there and never gets to my code. I've looked through all the publish settings
etc. and can't find
anything like "auto-preloader" or anything like that. Flash has taken over!
Should I set possessed=0? lol

As always, any help would be greatly appreciated,
jH

all items that are being exported for actionscript are usually loaded before
any code (in frame 1 or anywhere else) executes. so, for a preloader to be
effective in a swf with lots of fonts you have two options one of which is much
more work than the other.

the easy way is to create a new fla file that will contain one loadMovieNum()
statement to load your huge movie into a _level (other than zero, for example
loadMovieNum("huge.swf",1) ) and preloader code, graphics and text to entertain
your user while your huge movie loads. instead of using
targetMC.getBytesLoaded() etc you'll use _level1.getBytesLoaded() etc.