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Thank you for sharing your solution with us!

Can we use your preloader with our logo in our applications? Are there any licenses or restrictions?

Thanks & Regards
Kalluru

You do not need to do that at all because there are other ways around this.
In my experience, it is best to keep the preloader extracted so you can call on it anytime for anything and reuse it.

Your scenario could look something like this:
- You have a base file. It’s a default MXML.
- In your project, you have a component that will act as your preloader and is loaded together with your application.
- You have an external swf that you want to load after your app has loaded.

From that starting point we go to code in base file (imports not included):

//loader that will track the progress
private var myLoader:Loader;
//your custom preloader component
public var myPreloader:Speedometer;

//create your preloader and call the loading of the external swf file
private function getSwf():void
{
//create your new preloader component
myPreloader = new Speedometer();
//position it where ever you want and set any other parameters you want
myPreloader.x = 100;
myPreloader.y = 100;
//add your preloader to stage
addChild(myPreloader)

//create your loader
myLoader = new Loader();
//create a new URLRequest to use as with Loader
var mySwfURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(”URL_of_my_swf.swf”);
//attach a listener to loader so you can track the progress using it
myLoader.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, trackProgress);
//start loading
myLoader.load(mySwfURL);
}

//trackProgress is attached to the listener and is being passed “progress” parameters in event parameter
private function trackProgress(event:ProgressEvent):void
{
//this is where you can pass the progress to your custom preloader
myPreloader.setPercentageLoaded(event.bytesLoaded / event.bytesTotal * 100 );
//if the swf has loaded, remove your listener and custom preloader from the stage
if(event.bytesLoaded == event.bytesTotal)
{
myLoader.removeEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, trackProgress);
removeChild(myPreloader)
}
}

For instance, I would like to use a kind of speedometer for preloading. I’ve created a swf that has a ’setPercentageLoaded(percentage)’ function in the first frame of the movieclip. This function rotates the dial of the speedometer based on the percentage loaded.

I’ve been trying to accomplish this, but embedding swf files causes the function to be unreachable.

Any help would me most appreciated.

Regards,

Sander