# Get size of external SWF without loading

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**Created:** [June 12, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/get-size-of-external-swf-without-loading/228913 "2007-06-12T14:56:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nationwider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@Nationwider](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nationwider)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/get-size-of-external-swf-without-loading/228913/1 "2007-06-12T14:56:00Z")

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I am working on a demo using Flash 8 Professional. There is not much inner-activity and I am creating the piece by combining multiple SWF files.

I would like to create a progress bar that represents the progress of the demo as a whole and allows the user to fast-forward or rewind by moving a draggable component of the progress bar.

My problem is that I would like to get the size of the external SWF files without loading them all initially. I don’t have a preferenance over getTotalFrames or getBytesTotal, but I would like the function to be dynamic in that the size is not hard-coded.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.