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    <p>I have some 3rd party Flash SWFs on my site that are up to 100KB in size. e.g. the Flash video player "JWPlayer" SWF is 98KB.</p> <p>That's fine for people with Broadband, but not so good for the slow dial up bandwidth visitors. e.g at 40 kbits/s, we're talking 20 seconds to download.</p> <p>The problem is that on slow connections, all the visitors are seeing is a static white screen, and so may close the page thinking it's dead. If I right click the area where the SWF is to go, an Adobe Flash Player Object is occupying the space, but the 3rd party SWF has not finished loading in yet.</p> <p>I would like the website visitors to see a loading spinner GIF or something similar.</p> <p>Unfortunately, none of the 3rd party SWFs have "preloader" element. And they are not open source, so I cannot add a preloader to them.</p> <p>So, my question is...</p> <p>Is there any way to display a loading image, prefereably a GIF animation, while the SWF is loading?</p> <p>For example, is there any way to force the Adobe Flash Player to show an image while it is loading in the SWF?</p> <p>I don't have any Flash coding skills, so a solution that doesn't include creating an extra SWF or a SWF within a SWF would, probably isn't best for me, but might be worth adding to the post in case other people have a similar problem.</p> <p>I am using swfobject 2.2 to embed the SWFs, so a solution that takes that into account or at least doesn't break that would help.</p> <p>Thanks very much for taking the time to read my post, even if you can't help.</p> <p>Dave</p>
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    1. COI thought about using jquery to add the image using a CSS z-index in front of the Flash object, then use the swfobject callbackFunction to remove it once the SWF has loaded. I have done this in the past to put a Logo in front of the SWF. But this involved playing around with the "wmode" parameter of the flash object, & there were issues that may or may not have been resolved to do with Flash and the wmode parameter. I don't recall if the issue was to do with what the Flash version, or what browser, but it was enough to stop me using this method.
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