MooTools Image Preloading with Progress Bar

Discussion

1. Josep Viciana

   Haha, this girl are great, :)
   Good tip David.
2. Josep Viciana

   david walsh, as you can see on this screenshot, using ie7 the pics are enlarged. pd. maybe is a mootools problem?

   http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/1838/oo956e2tmpll4.jpg
3. Chris Coyier

   Didn’t I request an ass shot? HA.
4. Jesus DeLaTorre

   I’ve seen image preloading done before with only two images. The stripped bar would be a small repeatable image and then there would be a solid bar. (I guess it can be done with one.) Then the two divs would be right next to each and then one would grow and the other would shrink. Until the solid one would have a width of 0.
5. david

   @Josep: IE7 must be acting odd with the images. The images are actually huge so that the progress bar wouldn’t be skipped right away. IE used to constrain those proportions. Apparently not anymore.

   @Chris: How could I forget?
6. elvis 2k

   It’d be cool to have the progress bar discreetly disappear when it reached 100%.
7. SeanJA

   But… how do you preload the preload images?
8. david

   @Sean: The preloading code starts on line 15 with Asset.images();
9. SeanJA

   It was a joke… but… what if the preload images are not loaded (for some unknown reason), does it still look ok without them?
10. david

    @SeanJA: There’s only one way to find out! Try it.
11. Dan

    Hey Dave,
    is there a convenient way to inject the values of the array

    var images()

    vith Ajax?

    Cheers Dan
12. david

    @Dan: Good question. Here’s one possible hack:

    Use ajax to build a string that looks like: ‘1.jpg’, ‘2.jpg’. Split that string using the .split() function.

    Now you have your array.
13. Deto15

    That’s an awesome usage of mootools ^^
    I had a problem with website preloader because I have tons of images as css backgrounds but Firefox 2 run body.onload event without downloading those… And now not only I can fix it, but have it with percentage bar :3

    Big thanks for help ^^
14. Chris

    david, great use of mootools and love your blog. I’ve played with your example, and I’ve noticed that onComplete doesn’t work properly in firefox. The preloaded image seems to load twice in FF, however it successful in IE/Opera/Chrome/Safari. Have you come across this issue before? Would love to hear a workaround if possible! TIA!
15. Birke

    Very cool David!

    Is it possible to hide the progress bar after the images are fully loaded? How can this be done?
16. david

    @Birke: Definitely — you’d use the “loader” variable’s onComplete function to place the “hide” code.
17. Birke

    Thank you very much for your fast reply. This was my first idea to use this function. I tried to do this with fx.slide from mootools demo page, but had no luck until yet to get it to work.

    var myFx = new Fx.Slide('images-holder', {
    duration: 'long',
    transition: Fx.Transitions.Bounce.easeOut
    
    
    });
    
    onComplete: function() {  
                images.each(function(im) {  
                    new Element('img',{ src:im, width:200, style:'width:200px;margin:20px 20px 20px 0;' }).inject($('images-holder'));  
                });  
                fx.hide();
      } 
    
18. Jonathan

    How can i hide the progress bar after loading the images?
19. Manolis

    Hi,

    Would it possible to use it as a preloader for other objects (like swf) , and how?

    Thanks in advance.
20. Guillem

    Is there a way to retrieve images addresses (url) already placed into a div, ask mootools not to load them the usual way, store them into an array and then, use your code?

    Thanks
21. Gui

    what if you want to show the preloader for each image, when loaded that one, show preloader for the next and so on
22. David Walsh

    Gui: What value does showing the progress of each image have? Showing the progress as a whole is more important. In any case, I suppose you could use multiple progress bars.
23. F3

    hi there David –

    this is really great.

    I’m having one issue and I wonder if you’ve run into it before and/or have any advice. in Firefox and Safari, all is wonderful. In Windows IE 6, my code is never hitting the onComplete block – it stops at 96%.

    I added an alert to the onProgress block that prints this debug info out:

    “finished ” + index + ” out of ” + images.length + ” images”

    in Firefox, images.length is 26, but in IE 6, images.length is 27, so this may be causing the problem.

    this seems like more of a problem with Asset.images than dwProgressBar, but I’d be surprised if I were the only person seeing this behavior.

    have you seen or heard anything about this? your advice is appreciated!
24. F3

    well, I fixed my own problem:

    http://jszen.blogspot.com/2004/07/array-length-headaches.html

    I had an extra comma following the last image in my image array.

    thanks anyway! :)
25. Sania

    hey could u plz tell me how to show some text with that 100% i mean that variable goes from 0 to 100 % so i want to display this text with it “loading images” of course without quotes.
26. Cmt

    Hi, david, one question,, if i want use this script for load data from database mysql usign php, and show Preloader while load data ? How do this.
27. Texter

    How can i remove the progress bar after it load the images?
28. Thomas

    Is there anyway to make the bar disappear when it reaches 100% ?
29. Harrison

    how could i set this to load HTML content instead of images or just have it forward to an HTML page. sorry, kinda a JS noob, techin myself
30. Djarot Studio

    Awesome sauce David!
    Anyway, ..just a pointer for anybody who needed the let’s-get-the-progress-bar-disappear after the images done loaded.

    Using the eggsact hint from David,
    * use the “loader” variable’s onComplete function to place the “hide” code.*
    ..in here i use the simple fade to 0.

    onComplete: function() {
      images.each(function(im) {
        new Element('img',{ src:im, width:200, style:'width:200px;margin:20px 20px 20px 0;' }).inject($('images-holder'));
      }), // change this part into [,] so we can continue to our "hide" code
      $('progress-bar').fade(0); // let's fade it to 0 opacity, shall we..
    }
    

    Hope it helps.
31. 123doing

    It’s very good.
    I like this.
    Thanks for share.
    And I wrote something to introduce this project for my readers.
    You can find the post about this in my website.
    If something is wrong,pls figure it out.thanks.
32. Ariel

    Hi David, is there an onProgress callback for the Asset.javascript method? Thanks for this!
33. Ariel

    After taking a look at the code, onProgress is called only after an image has been successfully loaded. This doesn’t seem to be possible to be achieved with JS files. hmm…
34. Shubham

    wow….this works great…:) Well i was looking for the preloaded with progress… thanks I am trying this right now…If I have any issues i will let you know.. :)
35. Romi

    is it anyway after 100% progress bar disappear and show’s message
36. peter

    i receive this error msg:
    Error: $(this.options.percentageID) is null
Sourcefile: xxx/js/dwProgressBar.js
Row: 59
    How to fix this ?
37. Domenico de Giulii

    Hi David,
    great script, but it doesn’t work with Internet Explorer 9.
    Does it contain any deprecated (according to Microsoft) javascript method?

    Thank you in advance!
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39. Commax89

    Hi David,

    i found the error it was in this code

    onProgress: function(counter,index) {
        progressBar.set((counter + 1) * (100 / images.length));
    },
    

    i had to cancel the + 1 after counter. i don’t know why but it went up to 120%, know it goes only to 100%.

    Thank you agoin for the script.