# 1120: Access of undefined property imageArea

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/1120-access-of-undefined-property-imagearea/271139>\
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**Created:** [September 18, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/1120-access-of-undefined-property-imagearea/271139 "2008-09-18T23:13:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/1120-access-of-undefined-property-imagearea/271139/1 "2008-09-18T23:13:07Z")

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I followed (or so I thought) the tutorial on creating a progressbar for a preloader in Flash CS3. Unfortunately I get the error message: 1120: Access of undefined property imageArea. Wonder what happened since the online tutorial supposedly works. Flash doesn’t like this code:

// Load Image  
imageArea.addChild(imageLoader);

The only thing I did differently from the tutorial was load my own exe (and tried with swf) instead of loading the jpg in the online code.

Any clues why I am getting this message, and how to fix?

Thanks for any help.