• Hello

    I’m new to AS3. I’m building a wordpress website and want to add a flash preloader that loads an external flash movie. Locally it works fine, if I type in the direct URL in the browser it works fine too but as soon as I insert the file into WordPress, I get URL not found error. I have tried both relative and absolute URL’s and neither work in WordPress. All files are sitting in the same folder. I’m using a wordpress plugin to insert flash into wordpress. Here is the preloader code:

    var l:Loader = new Loader();
    l.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent .PROGRESS, loop);
    l.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLET E, done);
    l.load(new URLRequest(“tvHome.swf”));

    function loop(e:ProgressEvent):void
    {
    var bytes:Number= e.bytesLoaded;
    var bytes_t:Number = e.bytesTotal;
    var perc:Number = bytes / bytes_t;
    var frame:Number = Math.ceil(perc*100);
    var percent:Number =Math.ceil((bytes*100)/bytes_t)
    count.text = percent+”%”;
    preloader.gotoAndPlay(frame);
    }

    function done(e:Event):void
    {
    l.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(ProgressEv ent.PROGRESS, loop);
    l.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.COMP LETE, done);
    removeChild(preloader);
    l.x = stage.stageWidth/2 – (l.width/2);
    l.y = stage.stageHeight/2 -(l.height/2);
    addChild(l);

    }

    Thanks

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