Comments on: Preloader Infinity Problem in Flash AS3

By: Brennino

Brennino — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:43:48 +0000

Hey guys… Don’t brake your brains with AS3 code!!!
And the problem is neither caused by browsers (or only a little part of it…) the problem is in the web server!!!
Apache is used to compress files before send them to the client and this cause the division by 0 error because flash don’t know whats the file size during the preload activity (so assume that is 0 byte…).

The problem is different in different browsers because they handle gzip compression differently

To correct the error write a .htaccess with:

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.avi$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.mov$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.mp3$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.mp4$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.rm$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.swf$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.flv$ no-gzip dont-vary

This say to apache to not use gunzip for the file extension listed.

I find the solution here (Thanks to Castertroy he saved my night):

http://gardengnomesoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4204

Infinity problem is a pain to correct.

Hope this helps

By: kyle

kyle — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:28:27 +0000

can someone help me i cant get the email to work on flashmo_188_chrome_black ive put my email in the ’send email php file ‘ that says
reciever but it doesnt work once ive uploaded it to the net

By: basanet

basanet — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:23:48 +0000

Dear JvV,

is you answer for me? If so, thanks so much, but… what should I delete in the preloader? The text? I’ve put no text in it, but just the preloader. any more hints?

By: JvV

JvV — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:39:03 +0000

we have found it!!

simple: delete all tekst of the preloader..!!!

By: basanet

basanet — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:05:55 +0000

Dear Min Thu,

let me thank you for this little preloader: it’s really a smart and effective solution! I’m quite new at Flash, but I found it very practical and I make it working in a so short time!

However I experienced a little problem and I’d like you to give me your opinion about it. First of all, let me tell that I’ve put the preloader even in the “main.fla” of my project, and in the secondary movieclip it loads when the pages are choosen. Obviously, in every case I put the preloader in the first scene (of two) of the .fla.

But, while it works in the main .fla (I can see the progress bar going regularly to the completion), the other movieclips (corresponding each to a different .fla file) show the bar only when it’s already completed, then pass to the main scene.

Do you have any idea about this behaviour? Maybe the loading of file into a main.fla makes unapplicable this preloading solution?

Thanks for your attention. I hope to ear you soon.
Regards

basanet

By: Ryan Ragle

Ryan Ragle — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:08:53 +0000

I’ve also come up with this problem on preloaders.
If you don’t feel like reading the article, it basically comes down to not using the ENTER_FRAME event and using the ProgressEvent and COMPLETE events. I too was running on a server with gzip. Hopefully this is a solution that will help everyone: http://bit.ly/7m2Wru

By: Huachoby

Huachoby — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:48:22 +0000

Only one thing, in AS2 work perfect this code:

stop();
preloader._width = 0;
preloader._visible = preloader_bg._visible = true;
preloader.onEnterFrame = function()
{
filesize_total = _root.getBytesTotal();
if( filesize_total == 0 ) filesize_total = 1;

percent = Math.round( _root.getBytesLoaded() / filesize_total * 100 );
txt = percent + “%”;
preloader._width = percent * 3;

if( percent == 100 )
{
txt = “”;
preloader._visible = preloader_bg._visible = false;
_root.play();
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}

By: Huachoby

Huachoby — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:31:32 +0000

Hello to all:
I also have that problem and I have not been able to solve it I complete, it all that I obtained is that it remains the static rod and the word “Loading”, but never the bar with the percentage moves. After seconds the page is loaded.
My conclusions are that the problem this in the Host (because I tried perfectly in other servers).
I found a article that said that the server compresses by means of PHP some archives (SWF for example) to create an exit buffer and to make but the loading fast (something thus I understood, because not much of programming). Then maybe one solution to disable that method of uncompres (GZIP).
My supplier of hostes does not say to me that it cannot do nothing and tries to disable it by means of client (forming the file htacces that is in my site, but I work either. At the end of accounts I occurred by won, I hope to have time but ahead to continue trying. Sorry for my bad english and please to meet you.

By: nico

nico — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:20:01 +0000

@David Kennedy,

Sorry, but your site never loaded. Is it really big?

By: David Kennedy

David Kennedy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:21:12 +0000

Just a small follow up.

As we seem to still have some issues….and consistency is all over the place. I have a small fix for preloading….except my new method does not use a loading percentage / bar.

Put simply, I load a small SWF that loads my site. My site is only displayed once the COMPLETE status is reached. It will not proceed to my site until this variable is met.

To see my workaround, visit:

http://users.tpg.com.au/gfx/index.html

Cheers and goodluck
David

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:55:01 +0000

uni,

what kind of stuff do you mean?

By: uni

uni — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:11:50 +0000

i’ve managed to put it on a windows server to test and it works fine there.

http://www.biddcom.co.za/games/test/index.html

By: uni

uni — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:57:22 +0000

Hi admin, my server OS is Linux

By: admin

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:12:44 +0000

Hi uni, can you please tell me what OS does your server installed?

By: uni

uni — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:39:39 +0000

jeroen have you removed the stuff of your server?

By: uni

uni — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:37:57 +0000

okay I run the chrome site in IE on their server / perfect -on my server – nada

http://www.blue-genie.co.za/ietest/

By: uni

uni — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:43:16 +0000

I’ve just done another test using the “hacks” mentioned on this site, now the files don’t preload properly on firefox or IE.
the file loads before all the items are available, but once you refresh , then the missing items are loaded. Not good. I’ll play around a bit more, then upload on a public URL and share the link.

By: uni

uni — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:27:22 +0000

hey all. i recently ran into the same problem but I’m not sure that its necesssarily an IE problem.

on a basic preload class i get the infinity thing. if i do the “hack” to avoid divide by zero, it’s hangs but here’s the funny thing. If i run on localhost through xampp – works fine in IE. I upload it to my live server, which is a linux server – and it doesn’t work.
Any one able to confirm for me?

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:49:02 +0000

hello,

the problem is that my hosting as a newer PHP version?

so can the problem fixed in the flash script or something? what can i do now to let work my website on internet explorrer?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:59:21 +0000

Hi Jeroen,

In your test files on your server, I see the preloader showing big numbers like 8024250% and then finally stop with “Loading…” but they work fine in my server.

From comparing server specs, I found out that your hosting is FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p5 #0 (PHP Version 5.2.8).

My hosting is Linux 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 (PHP Version 5.2.6).