# Help with preloader

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloader/238230>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 8, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloader/238230 "2007-09-08T18:42:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Handicapt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Handicapt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Handicapt)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-preloader/238230/1 "2007-09-08T18:42:22Z")

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This would be my first time working with preloaders, and I’ve read several tutorials but it just isn’t clicking with me. I have the preloading animation down and all, but I’m unsure just how to get the preloader working with my content.

You can see the file I’m working on at [http://www.joeb.uni.cc/flash](http://www.joeb.uni.cc/flash)

This is my actionscript code:

```auto

              var featuresUrl:String = "nodes.xml";
              var featuresArr:Array = new Array();
              var myDate:Date = new Date()
              //var timestring:String = ""+myDate.valueOf()
              var timestring:String = "";
              var featuresXML:XML = new XML();
              featuresXML.ignoreWhite = true;
              featuresXML.onLoad = function (success:Boolean) {
                      if (success) {
                              var featuresNode:XMLNode = featuresXML.firstChild;
                              var featureObj:Object = new Object();
                              for (var aNode:XMLNode = featuresNode.firstChild; aNode != null; aNode = aNode.nextSibling) {
                                      featureObj = new Object();
                                      featureObj.img = aNode.attributes.img;
                                      featureObj.title = aNode.attributes.title;
                                      featureObj.description = aNode.attributes.description;
                                      featuresArr.push(featureObj);
                              }
                              _level10.tit.text = featuresArr[0].title;
                              var temp;
                              var mc;
                              var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
                              for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
                                      temp = _level0["B"+(i+1)];
                                      temp.buttonval = i;
                                      mc = _level0.img_container_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("img"+i+"_mc", -5+i)
                                      mcLoader.loadClip(featuresArr*.img, mc);
                                      mc._visible = false;
                                      temp.img = mc;
                                      temp.onRelease = function () {
                                              _level0.tit.text = featuresArr[this.buttonval].title;
                                              _level0.des.text = featuresArr[this.buttonval].description;
                                              _level0.cur_selected.img._visible = false;
                                                _level0.cur_selected = this;
                                              this.img._visible = true;
                                      }
                              }
                              _level0.cur_selected = temp;
                              temp.img._visible = true;
                      }
              };
              featuresXML.load(featuresUrl+timestring);
            // trace(_level0.B1.getDepth())

```

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.