rudmonster, an example would be good as I've not been able to announce
custom events from the app that the preloader seems to see, unless I
use the previous suggestion.
My solution to preload the stylesheets was to do it within the
preloader itself so have a 2 step preload, only once both steps were
completed did I announce the complete event.
-D
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "rudmonster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I posted an answer this morning but I dont see it so let me try
again
> (first time posting :)
>
> All you need to do is extend mx.preloader.Download progressbar then
> override the FlexEvent.INIT_COMPLETE ....you can then control when your
> preloader will end ...see here (sorry ...I am paraphrasing my code dont
> have it with me but you will get the idea)
>
> public class Preloader extends DownloadProgressBar {
>
> public var splash:SplashScreen;
>
> public function CustomPreloader()
> {
> super();
> splash = new splashScreen();
> this.addChild(splash) ;
> }
>
> override public function set preloader( preloader:Sprite ):void
> {
> preloader.addEventListener( FlexEvent.INIT_COMPLETE ,
> FlexInitComplete );
> }
>
>
>
> private function FlexInitComplete( event:Event ):void
> {
> splash.comp= true; // When this is true I know that the swf
> has finished downloading
> dispatchEvent( new Event( Event.COMPLETE ) );
> }
>
> }
>
>
>
> so over riding and binding a var to true I can use another event (like a
> database query result event to call another function inside of my splash
> sprite .as file to remove itself like this:
>
>
>
> public function startupComplete( event:ResultEvent):void
> {
>
> if( this.comp) closeSplash() ;
>
>
> }
>
> public function closeSplash( ):void
> {
> if( this.alpha > 0){
> this.alpha = this.alpha - fadeOutRate;
> this.parent.removeChild(this);
> }
> }
>
> if this sounds like what you want I can send you all my code to do this
> .
>
>
>
> Rudmonster :)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "hannes.stockner" <mail@> wrote:
> >
> > Now I have a possible solution:
> >
> > CustomPreloader:
> >
> > private function onFlexInitComplete(event:Event):void
> > {
> > //now we can access the Application.application
> > Application.application.addEventListener(AppReadyEvent.READY,
> > onAppReadyEvent);
> > }
> >
> > private function onAppReadyEvent(event:AppReadyEvent):void
> > {
> > dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.COMPLETE));
> > }
> >
> > Application:
> >
> > //dispatch AppReadyEvent if you want remove the preloader
> > Application.application.dispatchEvent(new
> > AppReadyEvent(AppReadyEvent.READY));
> >
> >
> > What do you think about it?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "dave_defusion" david.spurr@
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm just trying to do the same thing for our app today and there
> must
> > > be a way, surely it's quite a common requirement. All I want to do
> is
> > > load the runtime styles & a quick check to the backend, but the
> > > loading the styles is the most important thing.
> > >
> >
>
