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OR EMAILFlash Tip 1: Preloader Doesn’t Work? It Might Be Your Sounds
I made a goofy Gilmore Girls video game and then realized I messed something up that causes the preloader to not display right away - defeating the whole purpose of a preloader.
When dynamically loading and playing sounds in ActionScript, you may have correctly set your sound file in the library to Export for ActionScript and Export in first frame. It’s the latter item that messes things up. It seems Flash takes that first frame thing literally and will load those library items even before the ActionScript you have on frame one, layer one - which is usually your preloader code.
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In the interest of sharing information, this is the first in a series of “brain dump” posts regarding web design - specifically for folks who are starting a blog.
