# External Preloader for Flash website

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-preloader-for-flash-website/10696>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 5, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-preloader-for-flash-website/10696 "2003-01-05T20:20:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![saint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@saint](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/saint)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-preloader-for-flash-website/10696/1 "2003-01-05T20:20:43Z")

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Hi!

I am posting my question here in this forum, cause if  
anbody can help me, then it’s sure someone from  
Kirupa! Kirupa just rocks!! 😉

I have a website which is mainly designed in flash.  
The flash file opens on a html page.  
On that html page, there is also another flash file  
which plays a mp3.

I saw a great preloader on your site:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader\_component.asp](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/preloader_component.asp)

but how can I get it to load both flash files, the  
mp3 and the html file and then jump to the  
html page, when finished loading everything.

I have already tried html-preloaders, too but I  
only found ones that preload images, but no flash  
files.

Thank you very much for your help!

Cheers  
Saint  
😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-preloader-for-flash-website/10696/2 "2003-01-06T01:01:14Z")

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Check the tutes. There are quite a few about preloading.

pom 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-preloader-for-flash-website/10696/3 "2003-01-06T01:10:55Z")

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but are there ones for this kind of thing?  
I haven’t seen one that will preload an html page while preloading several flash movies within it. I have seen the question asked a few times in places, but not answered.

would it be out of the question to make your whole site in flash?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-preloader-for-flash-website/10696/4 "2003-01-06T01:15:51Z")

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I didn’t see he was trying to preload an HTML page. 😛 I don’t think it’s possible. But you can preload the Flash file and the MP3 separately, and when both are preloaded, open the HTML page, no?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-preloader-for-flash-website/10696/5 "2003-01-06T10:21:43Z")

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First of all, thanks for your answers =)

Probably it is possible to preload the sound and the flash  
file and then open the html file.  
But how do I tell a flash preloader that it has to  
preload both separate flash movies  
(the main and the one with the sound)?  
All preloaders I found were  
built on that “go to next scene/frame etc.” base.  
So that the preloader just had to load the whole movie  
and then play it.

How do I tell a preloader to load external files???  
Thats my main problem ☹

I also checked the tutes section, but I couldn’t  
find anything on that particular problem.

Sorry for bugging you, but I am really stuck with that  
problem.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-preloader-for-flash-website/10696/6 "2003-01-06T10:24:00Z")

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About building the whole site in flash:

Well I tried…but I got stuck with a script for a  
sound player which I just couldn’t include in the main  
movie. So I decided to make two flash movies and load  
them into the same html-page

😏