loader text and loadMeter.swf issues

[jriley]

Sometimes (most of the time!) the load meter does not appear until the pano is about 80% loaded. If I reload the page, it starts from zero the second time. Any hints on how to get it running right away on the first load?

Also, the text quality of the numbers in the center of loadMeter.swf is sometimes very bad. It seems that it goes bad if I pan while it is still loading. Sometimes it returns to normal quality after a while. What can I do about this?

Thanks!

(running FPP 2.0 still)

[jaaaab]

Hi

Loadmeter quality is directly affected by pano quality setting.

Do you lauch autorotator on start or something?

Look for quality setting in your code, the moment it is applied, and try to play with it!

bye

[jriley]

No, I don't have autorotator at all. I have the quality setting in the XMLset to

qualityStatic=best
qualityMotion=low

and it is done before the layer lines:


layer_2 = files/hotspots.swf
layer_4= files/borders.swf
loaderText =
layer_5 = files/loadMeter.swf

[Denis]

loaderMeter have some time pause before it appears on the screen (to be invisible if your panorama was cached in browser).

2.1 version contains the .fla file of glassMeter. You can remove pause or add your own functionality (required Flash CS3).

[theo]

loaderMeter have some time pause before it appears on the screen (to be invisible if your panorama was cached in browser).

2.1 version contains the .fla file of glassMeter. You can remove pause or add your own functionality (required Flash CS3).

Denis: Can you give me a hint please on where to find the pause setting? I opened the .fla file in Flash CS3 but didn't find it, sorry I'm new to flash!
Also is it possible that you can share the .fla file for the Loadmeter so we can remove the pause too?

[theo]

Please any one????

[Denis]

You can remove the pause commenting this string:
meter.alpha=-1;

I think there is some more reason to produce this behaviour. For some cases browser can postpone the loading of the glassMeter.swf (if you have big pictures and glassMeter is not in cache). So, you can avoid it if you will use a scheme like in examples/bw_preview.html - big pictures are loading using loadPano command from Hotspots plugin, this is a guarantee that all plugins are loaded before your big pictures start to load.

[jriley]

Denis,

For those of us without Flash CS3, could you put up a copy of the meters with the pause removed?

[Denis]

Yes, this is it: http://flashpanoramas.com/player/test/glassMeter.zip

Another importand thing: browsers restrict number of streams for simultaneous loading, images start to load before glassMeter plugin, so to be sure you will see the loader before all images, use this trick:
insert <img src="files/glassMeter.swf" style="display:none"> into your HTML before the Flash panorama movie. This will place files/glassMeter.swf into browser's cache and make the loader available for Flash Panorama Player.

Forget about this problem if you are using the loading scheme from bw_preview example.

[cheathamlane]

Just a quick note to say that using the "<img src.../>" doesn't appear to work in Safari or Firefox (Mac).

[ericob]

I would like to use something nicer looking than the plain text progress indicator, but either I can't get loadMeter or glassMeter to show at all, or I get glassMeter to appear for 1/4 of a second as the panorama data just finishes loading.

So I'm staring at a blank rectangle for 5 seconds, the *pop* the pano (as well as the "progress" indicator) appears.

I hope we can improve on this. :(

[jlounds]

I have been banging my head against the wall on this all evening.

It only seems to appear right at the last second, or if I hit refresh, it appears very quickly as the images are already preloaded.

I have commented out the line that hides it in Flash 3, but that didn't help. Additionally, I have tried "img src="glassMeter.swf" and also the example XML from bw_preview.

Help!

Thanks in advance...

Jeremy