Series: Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3

None of the lesson in this series have been reviewed.

Below are the descriptions for each of the lessons included in the series:

• Preloaders 1: Introduction

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is the introduction from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 2: Building the Main File

  In order to test a preloader, there first needs to be something to load. In this video, we’ll create this file and bulk it up a little with some images.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 3: Loading External Files

  In this video, you’ll learn how to use ActionScript to load the external file that you’re going to be preloading.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 4: The COMPLETE Event

  The COMPLETE event allows you to perform a certain piece of code once your external file has finished loading.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 5: Animated Text Preloaders

  In this video, you’ll learn how to create a repeating text animation that plays while your external files are loading.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 6: Using a Loader Component

  If you create a Loader object in ActionScript, that object will automatically be placed on top of all other objects currently on the stage. In this video, Craig demonstrates how to use the Loader Component in order to overcome this problem.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 7: Coding the Loader Component

  In this video, you’ll learn how to code the Loader Component in order to get the preloader to work.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 8: Creating a Percentage Preloader

  In this video, you’ll learn how to calculate the percent of the external file that has been loaded and then display that percentage in a text field so that the users will know how long they have to wait.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 9: Fonts and File Size

  In this video, Craig discusses some common problems that arise when using dynamic text fields to display loading percentages. He also demonstrates how to work around these issues.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 10: Coding the Percentage Preloader

  With the dynamic text field in place, Craig demonstrates how to add the code that will update the text field.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 11: Loading Bar Preloader

  In this video, Craig discusses how to create a graphic representation of loading times by creating a loading bar.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 12: Changing Up the Loading Bar

  The way we set it up, our loading bar loads from left to right. In this video, Craig will show you how to make some minor tweaks in order to get it to load from the right and from the center.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 13: Complex Loading Bar

  If your loading bar is a complex shape instead of a simple rectangle, it will take a little more to get the graphics to animate properly. In this video, Craig will demonstrate a loading bar shaped like a person.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 14: Pie Chart Preloader, Part 1

  In this video, Craig sets up the animation for a circular preloader.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 15: Pie Chart Preloader, Part 2

  With the animation in place, Craig demonstrates how to code the pie chart animation to advance to the appropriate frames.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 16: 3D Preloader Effect

  In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make your preloader graphics rotate around in 3D space in response to mouse movements.

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is excerpted from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."

• Preloaders 17: Conclusion

  Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

  This lesson is the conclusion from a full course entitled ‘Preloader Basics with ActionScript 3’. By purchasing the full course, you’ll receive a substantial discount relative to the individual lesson pricing. The full course is available as a series of lessons on MindBites or can be purchased from LearnFlash.com at http://learnflash.com/preloader-basics-actionscript3.html.

  The instructor, Craig Campbell, is a Senior trainer at TechnicalLead.com. He has always enjoyed the teaching aspect of his job. He feels that relating to the person who is trying to learn something for the first time is a strongpoint of his. He has mastered the Adobe suite of products such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He also trains people in web design/development areas like HTML, CSS and WordPress. A recent student sent us the following: "Craig has a fun, relaxed style that gets his point across very well. His small flashes of humor are very welcome, and bridge the gap nicely between sitting in front of a video series and being in an actual classroom. His lightness of style "humanizes" the experience of learning this way."