# Flash loads image again after preload

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loads-image-again-after-preload/235347>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 10, 2007, 12:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loads-image-again-after-preload/235347 "2007-08-10T12:09:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mischa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mischa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mischa)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 12:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-loads-image-again-after-preload/235347/1 "2007-08-10T12:09:20Z")

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I’m making a flv movie with dynamically loaded cuepoints (from xml).

On every cuepoint there should fade in an image (jpg) . The path to this image is sent with the cuepoints

To be sure an image is loaded before the cuepoint is passed, i’ve created a preloader that preloads 4 image from the xml before even starting the video.

After the video is started the preloader preloads the remaining images in the background.

All works well expect for 1 thing:

Flash does not seem to cache my preloaded images. In the bandwidthprofiler i can see that when a cuepoint passes, flash loads the preloaded images again.

My question is : why does flash reload the image while it is already preloaded ?

Thanks in advance!

myscript for preloading (works)

```auto
this.createEmptyMovieClip("plcontainer", "900"); 
plcontainer._visible = false;

plPic = String(myCuePic_arr.shift()); // example: "media/pictures/pic3.jpg"
plMovie = "preload_"+plCount;
myDepth = plcontainer.getNextHighestDepth();
plcontainer.createEmptyMovieClip(plMovie, myDepth);
my_mc.loadClip(plPic, ("plcontainer."+plMovie));
my_mc.loadMovie(plPic, ("plcontainer."+plMovie));

```

myScript for putting the image in place (works but loads the preloaded image again)

```auto
// get the path from the cuepoint info
var picPath = String(eventObject.info.cuePath); // example: "media/pictures/pic3.jpg"
loadMovie(picPath, "container");

```