[Javascript] Preloader is not showed up.

[Chris Tifer]

I believe the original poster was asking a Flash question - not much to do
with JavaScript.  Or was I just mistaken in my understanding of the
question?

Chris Tifer
http://emailajoke.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lovering" <dlovering at gazos.com>
To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] Preloader is not showed up.


> I haven't run all the permutations, but the text field creator needs to be
a
> client of a form (at least if we're presuming this is canonical
> W3C-compliant), and the child function presumes that the working form is a
> child of a frame.  My experience tells me that "_parent" construct doesn't
> always work well, as it simply presumes that the parent frame of the
object
> in question is what is required -- and if you are deep within a frame,
this
> simply points back to the frame you are already in  (at least in the MSIE
> circumstances I am familiar with).  I would suggest experimenting with
> methods such as
>
> var frame_doc =
> window.parent.parent.top.document.frames["my-target-frame"].document
>
> in order to define the pointer to another frame in a complicated
multi-frame
> environment.  Obviously, "my-target-frame" will correspond to the name/id
of
> the real frame you want to jump into.  If the frames are anonymous, you
can
> simply use indexes, i.e;
>
> var frame_doc = window.parent.parent.top.document.frames[3].document
>
> just as an example.  This is the only mechanism I can think of which would
> cause the script to work in one frame, but not in another.  The
> 'parent.parent' trick forces the DOM map pointer to move beyond the
current
> frame in a nested-frame environment, (which may not be absolutely
necessary
> in every instance), and the "top" reference moves to the ultimate parent
> document after we've navigated to the top of the frame stack.
>
> Also, remember that each frame is (to a large extent) a whole new
document,
> and that not every function, definition, etc. will necessarily appear
> globally referenced within them.  I'd suggest putting some existence
> checkers in the top of each of your functions in order to make certain
that
> the necessary objects/frames/forms are appearing properly.
>
> Another thing to ensure is that the preloader script is always launched
> (presumably by an event handler) underneath an object which is capable of
> spawning a child text field -- most notably a form or a table.  If "this"
> devolves to something that CAN'T spawn a text field, then you're hosed
right
> there.
>
> Mind you, all this is the result of a very quick overview, and I might
have
> overlooked something.
>
> -- Dave Lovering
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Prabu Subroto" <prabusubroto at yahoo.com>
> To: "JavaScript Milis" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:35 AM
> Subject: [Javascript] Preloader is not showed up.
>
>
> > Dear my friends....
> >
> > I wrote this actionsript to show up a preloader :
> > this.createTextField("texte", 100, 0, -20, 100, 20);
> >  texte.multiline = false;
> >  texte.wordWrap = false;
> >  texte.border = true;
> >  myFormat = new TextFormat();
> >  myFormat.bold = true;
> >  myFormat.font = "Arial";
> >  myFormat.align = "center";
> >  myFormat.size = 12
> >  this.createEmptyMovieClip("bar", 102);
> >  bar.beginFill(0x6600FF, 40);
> >  bar.moveTo(0, -20);
> >  bar.lineTo(100, -20);
> >  bar.lineTo(100, 0);
> >  bar.lineTo(0, 0);
> >  bar.lineTo(0, -20);
> >  bar.endFill();
> >  this.onEnterFrame = function() {
> >  charge =
> >
> > Math.round((_level0.getBytesLoaded())/(_level0.getBytesTotal())*100);
> >  pour = Math.round(charge) add " % - LAM AG";
> >  texte.text = pour;
> >  texte.setTextFormat(myFormat);
> >  bar._xscale = Math.round(charge);
> >  if (_level0.getBytesLoaded() ==
> > _level0.getBytesTotal()) {
> >  _parent.nextFrame();
> >  }
> >  stop();
> >  };
> >
> > I put this script onto frame 1 (1st frame) and if I do
> > TestMovie than lookslike this script works properly.
> > But than if I put it onto the 1-st frame of my movie
> > (intro.swf) than I can not see the preloader anymore.
> > My movie that contents the preloader actionscript is
> > already uploaded on my domain but still doesn't
> > display the preloader program.
> >
> > I put the script onto the 1-st frame of the layer
> > which I located on the top position so I think it is
> > not because the preloader is covered by other
> > layers...
> >
> > Please tell me why. Thank you very much in advance.
> >
> > Greetings...
> >
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