Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book®

Chapter 10. Loading and Optimizing Flash Content

A preloader keeps your viewers engaged while the primary movie file loads. Be creative in designing the preloader, and then use ActionScript to put it to work.

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In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Load a SWF file

• Monitor the loading progress

• Use ActionScript to animate a preloader

• Work with dynamic text

• Make symbols visible and invisible

• Cache bitmaps to improve performance

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This lesson will take less than an hour to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard drive, and copy the Lesson10 folder onto it.

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