screen shots please Dr.Cim ^_^

No need, demo is on my site ;)

i see

screen shot added

am gonna edit this he he got a cool animation i want to use ;)

well i was going to but you got no image to replace : ( any way to add a image over yours? where is the image located if it is not in your plugin?

_graphics/ajax_loader.gif

It's the default Elgg one, unless you override it in your theme plugin.
There are approximately 5,000,000 preloaders like this available on the world wide web ;)

it's located in preloadme/css.php

so it is here?  _graphics/ajax_loader.gif

yes on line 29

background-image:url(<?php echo elgg_get_site_url(); ?>_graphics/ajax_loader.gif); /* path to your loading animation */

to

background-image:url(path-to-image.gif); /* path to your loading animation */

i can not get my image to be animated when it is in gif format my animated image works as  png format, any way i can fx this cim?

it should work with any kind of images but gif usually works best.

line 29 of which file cim? preloadme/css.php ?

yes

ok lets see what i can do lol

thanks cim works perfect ^_^ and now made it original! 

i hoped that this would be intelligent enough to load like www.asana.com - where there is a tangible loading period on first load and then the rest is loaded without a fading process..
since that lets the preloader be involved for the bulk of the download (first load) and then lets subsequent pages load quickly if they do load quickly, without a fade..

however, this script is not so intelligent. it applies the fade for a pre-determined time to every load.

oh.. maybe i am mistaken and my site is just giving the appearance of what i described because i am looking at it locally and it loads fast here..

i see in the js script that the fade occurs on the page load event.. so it 'should' be better then i described. maybe i will test publicly then.

for some reason i am seeing that the full page loads and then the preloader overlay is added after the page has loaded.. 

so the whole page flickers up for 200ish ms and then disappears and then fades in..

hmm, would be interesting to apply to certain pages only. Normally it is nice that stuff loads in the background and you can already start reading, but with the registration page for example it causes problems on slow connections.

What would I need to change to have this preload only operate on the registration page? Thx.

@Krishcan - change the start.php init function to be:

function preloadme_init() {
$context = elgg_get_context();
if ($context == 'register')
{
elgg_extend_view('css/elgg', 'preloadme/css');
elgg_extend_view('page/elements/body','preloadme/preloader');
elgg_extend_view('page/elements/footer','preloadme/script');
}
}

cool will try, thanks!

@ura did you update to the 1.1 version? 

i only used the 1.1 version

try running upgrade.php