Assembly in Edge Animate

With the preloader created, we can now, actually, put it to work. And we're going to put it to work in Edge Animate. So to get yourself started, I want you to open up the preload.an file, located in your exercise folder which is in your download. And, when the file opens, you'll see a great big image of a bunch of fishermen. Now this image that you're looking at is approximately 3800 by 2600 pixels. That's a big image. Not only that, the file size is 4.1 megabytes, so that's going to take a while to load, into any browser, which means that a preloader is called for. Now, when you open the file, you'll notice that, there's the image, and there's the GIF, so what we've got to do is turn this into a preloader. To do that in Animate, what you do is you come down to the Properties, and you click this Edit button here, in the Preloader area. And, this will open up the Preloader area, and all you need to do is click on your animated GIF and just drag it into place, there it is. And you can…