Comments on: Very First Flex Preloader Customization

By: Flug Bangkok

Flug Bangkok — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:13:06 +0000

Kinda arrogant claiming you explained it better, isn´t it? But you are right! Thanks for the tut, it really works nice and just the idea is great. Well done!

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:51:16 +0000

Umm, this tutorial isn’t all from Jesse’s blog. It has some ideas from it (like the flash part) but mostly is done by myself and because of that I explained it better. Anyway, the backlink you requested is in your comment.

By: umm

umm — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:37:43 +0000

This tutorial is actually vom Jesse Warden’s blog!
You might consider adding a backlink to:
http://jessewarden.com/2007/07/making-a-cooler-preloader-in-flex-part-1-of-3.html

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:59:25 +0000

Thank for your comment Sergio and for pointing out that I specified Flash 8 instead of Flash CS3. I changed the article. Regarding your approach… I don’t think that will work for the first load for a big application because… to have loaded into the memory (and interpreted) the DownloadProgressBar class some big parts of the framework must be loaded and until then the normal flex preloader is loaded. With the approach explained in the article first is loaded the swf specified as preloader and then the framework so the flex preloader will be replaced.

By: Sergio Pereira

Sergio Pereira — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:08:18 +0000

Thank you, i read at the beginning of your post: “(Flash 8 & Actionscript 2.0)” and was trying with flash 8, but now with CS3 all works fine, and i can understand what you do here. Its nice to make a custom preloader to flex.
Too you can change the defaults of flex preloader with action script like this:
package preloader { import mx.preloaders.DownloadProgressBar; public class Loading extends mx.preloaders.DownloadProgressBar { public function Loading() { super(); downloadingLabel = "Please Wait..." initializingLabel = "Initializing..."; } } }

sorry the english, im brazilian, tanks again and good lucky!

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:16:06 +0000

Sergio, sorry to hear that you couldn’t use the files. I tested them and I managed to open them. All seems to be OK. I want to specify that the source files are Flash CS3 so you cannot open them with older version (or you can but the result may be unexpected). I hope you’ll be able to use them.

By: Sergio Pereira

Sergio Pereira — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:14:00 +0000

the fla´s samples files are corrupted, can you upload again

Thanks

By: Cyril Gambis

Cyril Gambis — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:34:22 +0000

Interesting…

Thanks for posting!

Cyril