Flash 8 progress bar tutorial

When you are working on your computer online, you are accomplishing lot many tasks. You may have to download some e-book. You may have to transfer some files. You may be downloading a movie or song. All these tasks start at some point and finish at some point. You have to monitor the rate of downloading and know how much work is completed. When you have a progress bar, it shows you how much task is completed. This progress bar is simple but very much useful tool. We use it every now and then but do not understand importance of progress bar.
Flash is a multimedia graphics program. This is especially useful on the web. You can create interactive "movies" on the web with the help of flash. You use vector graphics in flash. This means you can scale it any size and still get the clarity of the picture. You do not have to learn programming skills to use this flash graphics program. There are lot many websites giving you free flash tutorials. You can learn everything about flash on any of these flash tutorials. There are some advantages of using this flash graphics program. Flash is loads much faster as compared to animated images. It is not possible to have interactivity with animated images. It is possible to have interactivity with flash graphics program. If you want to use Java applets, you need to have programming skills. In case of flash graphics program you need not have any programming skill at all.
Flash 8 is flash authoring tool for the beginners. This is also called as flash basic 8. This is released with flash 8 players. This has very basic and limited features as it is the tool for the beginners. It is also called as less feature-rich version of flash. This is useful for basic drawing, animation and interactivity. This flash 8 version has limited support for video and advanced graphical effects and animation effects.
There are many websites giving you free flash 8 progress bar tutorial. http://www.webwasp.co.uk/tutorials/preloaders/index.php is one of these websites. The first flash 8 progress bar tutorial on this webpage is 105 intermediate. It is standard robust preloader. This is suitable for all versions of flash5 and above. You can use it with action script 1 or AS2. You are not using any flash components in this robust progress bar. This means it will take more time. This is basic robust preloader. When you are not sure about which one you should use, always opt for this one. There are many other preloader progress bar component programs here. All these pre loaders will use flash components. You can have many other varieties here. This webpage gives you detailed flash 8 progress bar tutorial for each type.

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