Mid-game loading screen

[puggsoy]

Would it be possible to have loading screens in the middle of the game? For example, I go from the menu into the actual gameplay, that it shows a little loading animation and loads all the assets for the play state. I'd like to be able to do this on both native and Flash.

On a related note, is there some way to have a preloader for native targets?

[SruloArt]

* You can accomplish that with this: http://haxeflixel.com/demos/FlxAsyncLoop/
* You mean a Splash Screen? use a timer and switchState(). For anything else just use the solution above.