how to monitor loading progress of media

I have been trying to find a way to show a loading status indicator to show the progress of files being loaded for the beginning of each scene in my game. My first guess was to use graphicsDevice.getAvailableAcceleratedMemory() which returns the number of bytes available in VRAM. I call this first (when no images are loaded yet) and then compare it to subsequent calls. I use a bar graph indicator to show how much memory is currently loaded compared to what will be needed to load the scene.

This is imprecise since each time I load the game, the graphs have erradic behaviour. (because graphicsDevice.getAvailableAcceleratedMemory() is only a snapshot according to the API docs for J2sdk1.4.2.

[711 byte] By [afarmanda] at [2007-9-29 21:02:31]