# External swfs not loading properly

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swfs-not-loading-properly/257839>\
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**Created:** [April 17, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swfs-not-loading-properly/257839 "2008-04-17T15:36:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![tyrione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@tyrione](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tyrione)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-swfs-not-loading-properly/257839/1 "2008-04-17T15:36:17Z")

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Hey,

I’m not sure where to post this so I posted it in the Flash CS3 forum and I’m posting it here.

I am trying to create a preloader for all the external swf files I want to use in my modular flash site and it’s not working very well. When I simply test the movie, everything works great. When I simulate the download it goes through the whole preloader and gets up to 100% (in the dynamic text field mBpc\_txt) then nothing loads up. When I publish the movie to html, it goes to 0% and doesn’t move any further. Any sort of advice would be greatly appreciated. Here’s the code I’m using:

```auto
var mBRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest ("marchingBand.swf");
var myloader:Loader = new Loader();
myloader.load(mBRequest);

myloader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progresshandler);
function progresshandler(myevent:ProgressEvent):void {
    var myprogress:Number = myevent.target.bytesLoaded/myevent.target.bytesTotal;
    mBpc_txt.text = Math.round(myprogress*100) + "%"
}

myloader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, alldone);
function alldone(myevent:Event):void {
    container.addChild(myloader);
    removeChild(mBpc_txt)
}

```

Thanks so much!

Dave