# FMX preloader for external images/swf
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-preloader-for-external-images-swf/26309
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 21, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-preloader-for-external-images-swf/26309 "2003-07-21T22:09:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jagunco](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jagunco)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-preloader-for-external-images-swf/26309/1 "2003-07-21T22:09:22Z")
hi can someone look at my code, and point me to the right direction, i´m trying to have a dynamic creation of button that load external images an d swf and esternal text description, i´m some code and trying to improve it, my problem is the creation of the preloader to load the external images/swfs to the container, i know i can put a ppreloader for every swf, but for images no, i want a preloader for the container were the movies and images are loaded.
can someone help me please
jagunco BOT
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-preloader-for-external-images-swf/26309/2 "2003-07-22T01:10:17Z")
It’s as easy as:
```auto
procent = Path_to_theContainer.getBytesTotal() / Path_to_theContainer.getBytesLoaded() * 100;
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-preloader-for-external-images-swf/26309/3 "2003-07-22T11:35:30Z")
but dosen´t work