People hating waiting. And seeming that nothing is happening is worse than anything to someone who is waiting.
One solution is to create a preloader. The preloader lets the end user know how much of the Flash project has downloaded, and how much is left to download.
This tutorial is a simple process for creating a Flash preloader if you are using Action Script 3 (AS3).
Create a Preloader in Flash (Using AS3) was originally found on Access 2 Learn
Assistant Professor
Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.
Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.
He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.
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This video will show you the differences between Block and In Line elements, and will thus explain why some things display differently than what you might expect when you style them, and display them in a web browser. The Difference Between Block vs In Line Elements was originally found on Access 2 Learn
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