Works great here, loads almost instantly, must be related to your flash ver or computer/network?
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:59 AM, b_alen <alen.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I get a blank screen for more than 10 seconds for the app that's about 700k > in size. Only then the preloader appears and starts from somewhere around > 70%. > > In the Flash days, this was easily solved by having one small SWF with > preloader that would load the main SWF in empty movie clip. Is something > like this possible in Flex? > > I did a small experiment with loading the Flex app into Flash SWF, but then > the sizing and alignments were lost. I also tried loading a Flex app into a > smaller Flex app, but still there was a blank screen for quite a while. > > It's a huge usability issue knowing that users leave after 8 seconds, which > is actualy true looking at google analytics reports. > > I've checked numerous blogs about custom preloaders but only found that all > of them have the same issue. > > These are all the apps and samples with the same issue: > > http://tv.adobe.com/# > http://onflash.org/ted/2006/07/flex-2-custom-preloaders.php > http://onflash.org/ted/2006/07/flex-2-preloaders-swf-png-gif-examples.php > > http://jessewarden.com/2007/07/making-a-cooler-preloader-in-flex-part-1-of-3.html > > > -- Thanks Jason
