Flash Explained

In this tutorial, you will see how easy it is to create an internal preloader for your Flash site, complete with:

A graphical loading bar,
An animated text field showing the percentage of your Flash movie loaded so far and,
A dynamic text field showing the amount of bytes loaded and total bytes.

Moreover, you are going to learn:

There is a certain type of preloader often seen on flash sites: the one where the text showing the percentage of the movie loaded changes color as the loading bar passes over it. This is done with the use of a mask.
To see what I mean, look at the flash movie below. This is the [...]

Learn to create the basic preloader with a loading bar showing how much of the movie has loaded. The advantage of a graphical preloader of this kind is that is the most intuitive for a user to see how much more she or he must wait to acces your site. Here’s a nice preview of [...]