External SWF's with preloader

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hey there,
i have a problem with my main timeline calling on external swf’s. what i am trying to do is have the main MC call up on other sections (graphics, links, etc.) with a preloader but i can not get my preloader to show. i have the preloader already in place in the MC’s that might be called upon. they work fine and is tested. the method of which these MC’s are being called are being targeted into an empty MC on the main timeline.

does anybody know to solve this?

thanks

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Hi,
There is an excellent tutorial over at www.actionscript.org called preloading multiple movies - or something like that. Should solve your problem - hope it helps

SteveD

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Hi tee28,

If I understand you correctly you are saying that the preloaders work fine when you publish just the external swf, however when you load it into your main _root timeline they don’t work.

Sounds like you may have to use the keyword this for your properties like getBytesLoaded(), getBytesTotal(), etc.