This time i wanted to make a nice progress bar for the preloader i've made. First of all, the usual check of Google. Plenty of hits, mostly for AS2 - a few for AS3 but nothing that takes my fancy. I did see a nice turning "barbershop pole" stripe bar, which i started out aiming for but before i'd written much code i figured a nice thing to do would be to simulate the nice glossy progress bars seen in windows vista. If it hasn't got anything else right, it has nice progress bars. Even though they still run on "microsoft time" and hardly give you a good indication of how long something is going to take, they do stand out and look the business.