aron / philipp development blog

Some of you guys asked, why even using the PreLoader instead of the original Loader from Adobe in the first place. The PreLoader queues the load requests, that’s all… :) Read the full story here.

For quick starters here an super simple example, that illustrates what we’re talking about:
PreLoader simple example. You might want to use something like charles to throttle down your bandwidth.

This example is also to be found the in PreLoader repository.

Philipp and me have been using the PreLoader class as a Loader replacement for some years now. It loads asset SWFs more convenient and has some nice improvements over the usual Loader.

Key features:

- Works similar to the Loader class (although it’s not extending it)
- Allows only one loading process per time (integrated loading queue)
- Some nice enhancements

Download here
Find documentation
See a typical scenario
Differences to Loader