Comments on: External JPEG file preloader

By: Scola

Scola — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:43:11 +0000

“How can I use this preloader in thumbnails? I mean, display all the thumbnails as buttons instead of the PREV | NEXT buttons.”

Yeah I need this too! Any help would be GREAT!!!

scola@westnet.com.au

By: Lester

Lester — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:30:45 +0000

How can I use this preloade in thumbnails? I mean, display all the thumbnails as buttons instead of the PREV | NEXT buttons.

By: Ron Zanos

Ron Zanos — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:39:04 +0000

Where can I download this preloader? The links seem to not work.

It looks very good, please let me know how I can download it.

Thank you.

By: Kazik

Kazik — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:09:41 +0000

Indeed a beautiful piece of code. I was close to going mad writing a jpeg preloader myself, a few more hours and i would definitely have to say ‘good bye’ to my mental health and then i found this: exactly what i was looking for. Works perfect for me, easy to tweak, thx a lot!!

By: Prashant Poladia

Prashant Poladia — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:02:21 +0000

Damn kewl Script!!!
Its working really well. Thanks Braj.

By: THanx

THanx — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 11:29:18 +0000

By: Brajeshwar

Brajeshwar — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:19:32 +0000

Yes Pirco, it makes perfect sense. The only hiccup is that ActionScript do not as of now have a way to check that and neither does it return an error when a file do not exist. So, you have to rely on third party server side script (wrapper in case of offline apps) to do that.

By: pirco

pirco — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:14:14 +0000

the number of external JPGs that i need to load into my flash movie varies. is there a way to find out how many files will be loaded without having to hardcode the number of images into the action script? i would prefer not even to use a variable, instead, it would be nice if there is a way for the script to “figure out” how many images will be loaded. i know this might get into file system scripting (or something) but i thought it would be possible to add an error check into the actionscript that detects that the next image to be loaded does not exist and then stops loading.
make sense?

By: morfis

morfis — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:19:28 +0000

Nice work! You’d think the code is rather obvious yet … here I am

By: Stephen Boyd

Stephen Boyd — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:22:31 +0000

Hey thanks man, I’ve been trying to achieve just this effect for a couple of weeks now. Now I see it, it’s an obvious, if rather slick, solution. Write the preloader on the fly each time the image is loaded.