In this tutorial you're going to learn how to add a percentage preloader using the "components" of FlashMX.

We're going to use a ready-made extension for the preloader.

Download the following files:

The Loader Extension .mpx file (credit: programed by Armen Abrahamyan).

To use the .mpx file, you'll need the Extension Manager

After completing the installation of the Extension Manager, and successfully setting up the .mpx loader file, you should be able to see the loader component from the drop-down menu of the Components (Go to Windows>Components, or press ctrl F7)

And that's our "percentage preloader" component.

Fig 1

Good, now create two layers as shown in Fig 2.

Select the first frame of the "preloader" layer and drag the loader component to the stage.

Select the second frame of the "Main Content" layer and place your content there.

Right-click on that keyframe and go to Actions, and add stop(); (You don't want your movie to go in loop back to your preloader).

Fig 2

Guess what! You can go and test your movie now! you're done.

(Go to Control>Test Movie)

Note: Make sure you select "show streaming" in order to see the preloader in action.

Conclusion:

What we did:

Downloaded the Loader component.

Created two layers: "Prelaoder" and "main content"

draged the loader component to frame 1 of the "preloader" layer.

Placed the content on frame 2 of the "main content" layer and applied a "stop" action to it.

In 2 steps, you've got a percentage preloader!

Download *.fla