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Flash Actionscript 3 (AS3) Super Loader – taterboy
May 17th, 2008 | Filed under: Flash AS2 to AS3
I really enjoy coding in AS3, but one of the things I dislike the most is the fact that when building movieclips as Classes, you have to export to Action Script or place all your movieclips on the stage somewhere. I think the latter is not very flexible. I understand why it has to be done; I just don’t like it. The problem with exporting everything to the Action Script is that it loads that MovieClip on the first frame, and loaders that are normally placed on the first frame will not show up or function until the first frame is loaded. This first frame now contains all our content that we have exported to Action Script which really defeats the purpose of a loader. That is why you will see a blank white box for a few seconds or longer before the loader shows up. The best way to fix this is to build a loader swf to load our current project swf into.
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