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Custom Flex 3 Lightweight Preloader with source code
Here we have a demonstration to an age old problem in Flash (inherited in Flex) - the Preloader. I think that the Flex community has long ago grown bored with the default preloader, which I am very thankful to Adobe engineers for providing us in the first place. It's just that we keep seeing it over and over and over...
Topics: Flex, lightweight, preloader
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