# Help Loading External Swf with preloader

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-loading-external-swf-with-preloader/254054>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 7, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-loading-external-swf-with-preloader/254054 "2008-03-07T16:17:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pickleshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@Pickleshine](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pickleshine)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-loading-external-swf-with-preloader/254054/1 "2008-03-07T16:17:39Z")

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Hello folks,

I need some help. I designed a website based on the [Transitioning Between External SWFs](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions2.htm)Tutorial. I have a preloader on the main swf that loads the other SWFs. But I also want to add a preloader to the SWFs which are loaded. On the tutorial I linked, it descirbes how to do that, but it just doesnt seem to want to work for me. What is happening is when i click a button to call up the desired SWF it wants to load the whole thing before displaying the first frame. In fact before the SWF animation starts i get a really quick flicker of the preloader loading the last 2 percents of the file. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong or can give me some advice? I am using Actionscript 2.0 on CS3