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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Preloader Resources for Flash

preloader-show-happyc In the spirit of the “Preloader Gallery” we recently featured, I thought it would be nice to share a list of resources for Flash developers to aid their search for high quality preloader source code and ideas. Most of the resources are “artist” friendly, so tweener-types will be fine with these resources …

Senocular
This site provides a really nice and easy to follow tutorial on how to create various types of Flash preloaders. The examples provided are AS2, but many people are still coding for Flash 8 these days.

Smashing Magazine’s Preloader Showcase
A very nice collection of creative examples, no code examples but a great place to go for creative inspiration.

Progression Animation Sample
Flashfridge has another nice AS2 example on how to build a preloader that uses an animation. For instance you could have a bucket filling with water for a preloader.

AS3 Apple Style Loader
If you dig the Apple loader, this is a hand bit of AS3 loader code:

Very simple AS3 Preloader Code
Even I understand how to use this AS3 code (I’m an artist dude!)


Category: Tutorials
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