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preloading images but keeping it HTML?

Im redesigning a site atm, and Im looking for a way to load images with flash instead of the old "one at a time"-oldfashioned way. I have 24 100x100 images to load so it wont look that nice if they don't load all together.

This is the site:
http://www.olssongerthel.se/nytt/index.html

Im also going to add a dhtml script that adds an OnMouse function which I don't know how to do in flash.. so Im looking for a way to make a flash preloader for the site, but the site itself shouldn't be flash.

I want a flash loader on top of the images (floating if possible) that loads all the images on the page, but the page itself shouldn't contain any flash, because I'd like to use the dhtml script...

Is it possible? Anyone got any viable solutions?

Last edited by insats, July 20th, 2006 03:43 PM (Edited 1 times)

UPDATE:

I think I found what I'm looking for in grantunwins response in this thread:
http://board.flashkit.com/board/sho...preload+website

I think he's on to something though, wouldn't you say?

Anyway, the reason why I'd rather not do it in flash is because I generally suck in flash.. I have no action script skills whatsoever. I know I can use tuts but still.. I need to be able to delete old images and insert new ones with ease. And Like I said, I also need the tooltip thing- which I also would have to learn how to do in flash..

Hmm.. I should be able to make it with this (http://www.flashguru.co.uk/checking-if-a-file-exists/) combined with the javascript that I linked to a few rows up right? If I make a movie that embeds the images (storing them into cache) while showing a loading screen in the meanwhile, it should work?
What do you think?