Progress Bar

[mhebel]

I have several jpg images that load in a photo album page, and each page takes 10-15 seconds to load after the page jump is clicked on.
Currently I am using "Dialog Busy" which works fine, but since my photo pages take 10-15 seconds to load, a please wait may seem like a computer lockup instead of a page load (like a web site, if web page is not loaded in 2 to 3 seconds, most people have lost interest, gone somewhere else, kids these days). Is there any way to place some kind of a loading progress bar, stop watch, etc. to show the user that something is happening? This bar does not even have to have anything really to do with the amount of time left to load a page, just something that moves, and I can hide, or turn to false when the photo pages is loaded and displayed.
I have never used flash (Old School still use notepad) so I would need something us old timers can figure out.
Hey speaking of flash, and since you all seem real helpful, is MX easy to learn, meaning does it have good tutorials, or should I enroll into a local class. I still write a site using HTML, and JAVA, but the things I see you guys do in flash kind of makes me think that its time to go back to school and learn a new trick.

Thanks in advance for your replies to my question. I really appreciate the help you guys have given me by reading the responses you have given to other people posts.

[Corey]

Let's wait until tomorrow and see what the guys say about the images, I'm not sure on that one. Sounds like you might be better off splitting the images into pages or loading them one at a time if they're that big.

But as to the Flash thing. We'll have a couple basic Flash video training CDs out very soon, by Jan. for $29 each. That might be a good start, nice and cheap too plus you can go over them as often as you like. Classes are great too if the instructor is someone you feel good about. There are also lots of great free resources on the web as well in the product itself. Flash MX contains a series of tutorials which are marvellous for getting started.

And last but not least you can ask anything you like in here anytime and we'll help if we can. There's some pretty handy Flashers here too who always help when asked.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software