load progress bar costs £400?!

[Geoff Cox]

Hello

If I wish to have a simple preloader - the type which shows a video
loading progress bar - do I really have to pay some �400 to buy
Adobe's Flash CS4 package??!!

Cheers

Geoff

[RobG]

Progress bars are a thing of the past, most pages just stick an
animated spinner on the page until the resource is loaded. Then a
callback removes the spinner and deals with whether it loaded
sucessfully or not.

--
Rob

[The Natural Philosopher]

Probably unless you are prepared to sweat through one of the not very
intuitive freeware flash compilers, or get a pirate adobe suite, or try
aqnd gafake it with java or javascript..

[SAM]

Le 9/2/09 8:33 AM, Geoff Cox a �crit :

You may use a little and free player in Flash (that will load the FLV
file in a kind of console) some of them run also with list.
Example:
this I use : <http://flv-player.net/> (sorry only in French)
also : <http://www.longtailvideo.com/>
<http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/>
and certainly some others (see Google)

--
sm

[Geoff Cox]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:16:52 -0700 (PDT), RobG <rob...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Thanks Rob.

A quick look this am suggests that the full CS4 package costs about
�2500 in the UK - this is an incredible sum!

Cheers

Geoff

[Geoff Cox]

any thoughts re which freeware flash compiler?

Geoff

[Geoff Cox]

thanks Stephane - I have tried the above but in the end came back to
just using <object> <embed> approach as this is OK for most situations
I need.

Cheers

Geoff

[Jim Ley]

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:24:01 +0100, Geoff Cox <gc...@freeuk.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:45:59 +0100, The Natural Philosopher

>>Probably unless you are prepared to sweat through one of the not very
>>intuitive freeware flash compilers, or get a pirate adobe suite, or try
>>aqnd gafake it with java or javascript..
>
>any thoughts re which freeware flash compiler?

Look at flex from Adobe, very well supported and free. And from
Adobe...

Jim.