That’s way I have to read the site before going to bed :))

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I’ve honestly never tried customizing the default preloader before, although that sounds like an excellent idea for a future entry.
I did find this page in the Flex 2.0.1 documentation though which may give you some ideas:
“Showing the download progress of an application“.
There are several good looking subtopics too, including the following:
* Disabling the download progress bar
* Creating a custom progress bar
* Download progress bar events
* Creating a simple subclass of the DownloadProgressBar class
* Creating a subclass of the DownloadProgressBar class
* Creating a subclass of Sprite

Is there a way to customize the flex preloader? such as change the text, color, etc.

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